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She had to have been an awesome actress, because when I watch those old episodes (even the pickle one) I truly believe she was kindly and loving and just a little bit ditzy. Instead of a mean old misanthrope.

If she’d been skinny, and had cans like La Sweeney, she’d have swept up every acting role there was. Waistline is destiny.

I just so happen to be in possession of said cookbook. The recipe doesn’t appeal to me, and I’m okay with dill pickles. It calls for hot peppers, garlic, onion, whole spices, alum and vinegar.

I asked a MAJOR fan of the show what the deal was and she said Aunt Bee just had a horrible recipe for dill pickles, never ate them (or even tried them), and foisted them on everyone else.

Hot peppers…dare I say, sounds Southern.
And has a name that would appeal to a lot of down to earth joke laconic country living types.

Here’s two interesting bits for you Weasy. We have been ‘blessed’ in East Texas with a couple of unusual things recently. First a cougar, reputed by the locals to be a “black panther”, has been sighted and even took a swipe out of a neighbors large free roaming Labrador. There are game trail cameras snaps to prove this is not related to “drunken fog”.

And we were treated to a display of the Aurora Borealis way down here in Texas in the last few days.

Times are a getting “interesting”!

We have a dead pool winner.

New dead pool tomorrow?

Who died?
I remember a pilot where she played an eccentric criminal mastermind.
It didn’t go well.
Aunt Bea made horrible pickles. Andy and Opie swapped out hers for some store bought. I don’t remember wether it was supposed to be a joke, or they were trying to raise her self-confidence.
Somebody entered “her” pickles in the fair and they took first.
Then, Auntie Bea made batch after batch to give as gifts and hopefully sell.
Then, there was a reckoning.

It seems almost cliche to hear of an actor or actress claiming to have hated playing the role that made them famous (or at least well-known) but never to hear of that actor or actress declining the residual income from that role.

Some actress I never heard of or possibly ever saw on the screen, kicked the bucket.

Lavender Girl is the most recent winner of the prized sweasel promissory note.

Season 2 Episode 11, “The Pickle Story.” (Sounds like a Seinfeld title)
Andy and Barney replace Aunt Bee’s bad-tasting homemade pickles with store-bought pickles, but find themselves in a real one when she decides to enter her pickles in a contest at the county fair. (This episode was voted by fans as their favorite of the entire series).[9]
It’s available on several free streaming services.