Over the years there have been untold hours of research devoted to finding the extremely rare Red Hamburger Relish, especially in SoCal. While it seems that Heinz dropped it from their list of products years ago, I have the ultimate replacement, perhaps even exceeding the expectations of myriads of Heinz lovers. There is however, one small problem. The name is "BICK'S Hamburger Relish" and it is manufactured in Markham, Ontario, Canada. In recent years this company has been bought out by the "Smucker Foods Corporation". The phone number is 1-800-268-3232. This relish is perhaps the best of the best. It contains all the ingredients of the old Heinz product, plus some other things like Cauliflower, dehydrated Onions, and garlic, which I don't remember being in the Heinz product. These relishes of course are based on Cucumber and Tomato Paste. There are no chilies involved. I have a hard time "importing" it from Canada, but it is not impossible. I have always been amazed by the lack of "Red Relish" nuts in the Western part of the U.S. Many people I talk to have never heard of "Red Relish" and especially on Hamburgers. They just don't know what they are missing.
I've lived in Toronto all my life, so I'm very familiar with the red relish you're describing. And yes, it's always been made by Bick's. The thing is though, when I was a kid, I always preferred standard GREEN relish. Next time I'm in a supermarket, I'll look for the red relish, now that you've reminded me!
This brings back memories. I love the red relish!
I moved from SoCal (orange county) to Arizona 3 years ago. I really enjoyed the Heinz brand, when it was discontinued I came across the Knotts Berry Farm Steak Relish, it was great on burgers and steak. The steak relish was discontinued shortly after the Knotts family sold the Jellys, syrups and other food items to Con Agra. A lot of people get red relish (pepper based) confused with red hamburger relish (cucumber, sweet red pepper and tomato based) product I'm looking for. I just found and ordered a sweet tomato hamburger relish made by a company called Cains, I called the company and was told that Cains is very well known in the Northeast USA but not really anywhere else. They also have a sweet red pepper relish, I ordered both jars from famousfoods.com, the shipping price was very reasonable and the order should be here next week.. Now I'm going to try and find a jar of the B&G hamburger relish just to try it and compare. Has anyone tried the Cains or B&G? FYI, I think the Knotts Berry Farm Brand Steak Relish had Cauliflower in it also. The thing I like about the Knotts brand was that all the veggies in it were crunchy. I just ran out of the Del Monte brand hamburger relish and want to try another brand just to see what is out there.
You can find B&G from time to time at Big Lot's. Where do you find the Del Monte burger relish in AZ?
I did not find the Del Monte here in AZ, I ordered it from mybrands.com. I thought the mybrands shipping charges was high but I wanted to try the Del Monte to see how it was. I think there is a Big Lots in Goodyear or Avondale, I'll stop by and see if they Have the B&G. I found another site that had another brand so I ordered it so when they arrive I'll post my opinion on each one and list them in order of being my favorites. So far my list will contain 5 items. I'll post it in the general topics section,
we always had Bick's relish in England. Not only red but a green one and a yellow corn one too. I haven't lived there for a few years but assume they are still available in the UK. Growing up in England all the burger restaurants had a relish tray of all three colours which was left on the table. It probably wouldn't pass health and safety laws now to be moved from table to table.
Check out the ingredients. Do you see TARTRAZINE?
Then Google tartrazine.
Stop into Bob's Big Boy and ask where they source it. My favorite item on a Big Boy.
Looks like Smuckers has discontinued hamburger relish.
There is a good make your own recipe on line.
I have been all over town and searched grocery shops as far as 50km away and NO RED RELISH!!!! What is up??? How will I ever enjoy another hamburger??? Is there a replacement for this rare delicacy?
I am on my only jar of nearly original(Smuckers brand is on it) red relish.
I have inquired about this at the grocery store and they have not received the Red all year.
[Obviously a bad management decision ]
I have had Bick's red relish for over 50 years...and noting No Name brand does not make red relish anymore. I have not checked Wal-Mart for their brand.
Which to me is really strange. You figure with the lack of competition they would be on the shelves like a dirty shirt.
Bick's used to put out 3 relishes Red(I call hamburger relish) Green(I call hotdog relish) and green+yellowish which had more mustard in it(which I also call a hotdog relish)
I see the only thing on the shelf is the Green one.
I do not see TARTRAZINE as an ingredient, nor califlower..
Cucumbers, Tomato paste are the basic ingredients Same additives you see in chewing gum...potassium sorbate potassium benzoate, garlic powder, polysobate80, garlic powder, sugar, water
Heck, people will start cooking and canning the stuff as they once did before.
We NEVER needed Bicks relish, it was just a convenience thing...and they had an excellent taste.
Red is not so good on a Hot Dog and I am certain McDonald hamburgers outsells all the Hot dog vendors combined. So they could easily manufacturer their own. Or Burger King, or Wendy's or A&W and you name it as to how many burger joints there are.
I cannot see the logic in this move away from a popular good product.
There is more to the world than SoCal.
Probably don't remember the chemical additives used now to make the colors pop. Read the last few ingredients on even the green relish.
Yum.
I always liked Heinz's Hamburger Relish. I was sorry to see it go, but found that mixing some Heinz India Relish with some ketchup (either bottled or homemade) is a perfectly fine substitute. With my homemade ketchup (to which I add some sweet Hungarian paprika), it's actually _better_ than my old Heinz favorite red relish, and fantastic on a burger.
I loved Red Relish, I put that stuff on everything including hamburgers. I added it to my meatloaf and Shepherds Pie, there were endless possibilities with it. I'm so sad that it is gone, It was Bick, not Heinz that I remember, I have searched high and low and I always have my eyes peeled every time I happen into a store that sells food products, we have a reserve not far from us and they seem to sell stuff other stores in town or the city don't so I look in there as well. I use to buy about 4 bottles each time I bought them, now I wish I had frozen most of it if I knew Bicks was going to get rid of it. So not fair, we get something we love and enjoy and they take it away from us. Not like it was costing them money as it was flying off store shelves, I worked in a grocery store and it was hard to keep it stocked.
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