I need to settle an argument I started. My argument: olives are gross.
I will die on this hill.
I was a bit of a picky eater when I was younger, but I’ve become much, much less so over the years - one of the few things I’ve never come around on is olives. The taste and texture combination just don’t work for me
Black olives are just okay, green are pretty good and kalamata are heavenly.
Kalamata are the goats!
What kinds of olives have you had? Have they been those cheap canned olives that sit on shelves for years? Then yeah, they’re not great, more and at giving an olive flavor to dishes. If you’ve had fresh olives, those can be amazing. That said, black and green olives taste different and you may have a preference between the two (like some people prefer red or green apples), and there are a bunch of different varieties as well.
I always wonder how many people don’t realize that olives aren’t supposed to taste like a tin can and have the texture of wet cardboard.
My brother-in-law always “hated olives”, and then he came over for a party where we had set up an olive bar, which he vehemently and repeatedly declined. But we were hanging around afterward and, as you do when you’re not really thinking and there’s food hanging around, he absently ate one. He then made his way down the entire bar - I think we had like 20 different types (some were stuffed). Now he gets pouty if we have a party and there aren’t any olives, lol!
Olives are good, my whole family likes them.
I like olives, but not all olives. There’s some nasty olives out there.
I like them stirred with gin and vermouth and served in a cocktail glass. Alcohol makes everything better.
So, a martini.
Black olives are the shit. Green olives are shit.
I’ve heard many people say the opposite of this.
(My own team is olive hater)
Yes, I do. Olives are great on pizza and in salad. You’re wrong, but there’s still time for you to see the light.
see the light maybe but it still tastes like darknes
Some of them are stuffed with garlic instead of pimentos. Surely that must rev your tastebuds?
Love them. Just the thought of them makes me salivate. Prefer kalamata but green are perfectly fine “daily drivers”. Won’t touch black ones.
The correct set of opinions ^
I hate them and agree, my wife loves them and 100% disagrees. She once had her olive privileges rescinded at a local bar.
Olives are pretty great. Like the green ones more than then darker ones.
No, I do not like olives. I can enjoy them in some dishes, but those are few and far between.
Love them. Especially the green ines. Sometimes i oick up a jar as a mivie snack.
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I’m picturing you trying to type this with a green olive stuck on the tip of each of your fingers.
Let’s say this is the truth, otherwise I’d have no excuse for being such a shitty writer when on my phone.
Even the smell of Olives causes me to gag. I absolutely cannot eat them. Olive oil is fine. But actual olives, no. Doesn’t matter if they’re old, new, canned, fresh. They’re absolutely disgusting. One of the few foods I outright cannot and will not eat.
Love them to bits. They are the best.
… just get the nice marinated deli ones, not the disgusting chalky-felty sliced O-rings you get in jars.
There’s no comparing the two. If all you’ve tried is those little abominations, I can’t blame you in the slightest for hating them.
Please try the good ones.
