Olives are delicious.
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I do like an olive now and again.
Black canned olives are a totally different beast to eg small green tart ones. I struggle to eat cold green olives by themselves sometimes. Black canned olives are salty beauts with the best texture of all time and I could eat fistfuls of them any time of day or night please
I eat green olives straight out of the can for lunch sometimes.
canned olives are disgusting. Real ones you get in the mediterranean are amazing. I also hate the green olives but LOVE kalamata olives
Hate ‘em, but I’m ok with olive oil.
i am going to feed you thousands of olives per hour.
If you are going to Die on this hill, what's the point of opening it up an argument.
To each their own, you hate olives, I like them.
I guess I'll also die on that hill
Olives are easily the most disgusting food I've ever had and I'm extremely adventurous. It's worse than bugs and spiders and snakes (delicious btw) and all manner of internal organs. Blegh!
Hey this is fun, Lemmy! Downvote me for agreeing with OP in a fun post and in a approachable way! Asking about my little escapades or what snake taste like? No, of course not. FUCK ME. Lemmings suck the fun out of everything. Surprised someone didn't tell me to KMS and mean it.
Olives are great! Olive Gardens? Not so much.
It's funny you ask. I used to hate them. But over time, I was determined to overcome my food phobias.
I fucking love olives. Green, black, big, small, as long as they're not stuffed with onions I'm down.
Same. I'll even eat them stuffed with onions. The only ones I've run into that I didn't like must've been improperly prepared (very, very bitter).
No, but my oldest son(6) loves them. There used to be an olives stand at the farmer's market near us and we surprised them by bringing a toddler who wanted olives. We let him try a bunch of different kinds. I will eat olives if I'm drunk and someone gives me a slice of pizza that has them, but otherwise they're a no for me.
I hate olives. I looooove olive oil.
I'm not a picky eater at all but I loathe olives. If they're in a dish I can't taste anything else.
Olives are the foundation upon which civilisation was built.
Fuckin love em
tbh olives are great in salads, I could never eat them on their own tho😬
Rotted fruit in a barrel of brine. Our ancestors did what they had to to get by, but it's a different age now.
Like the French and snails. Don't tell me that's fancy eating. Twas a plate developed by and for starving fucking peasants. When do you eat a snail? When the alternative is somehow worse.
Olives are barbarism.
High quality olives stuffed with jalapeño or feta cheese is chefs kiss.
Kalakaua olives on a salad. Are you kidding me? The best.
Garlic stuffed green olives!
I think olives in brine are not nice, but a life changing way to eat olives is to marinate them in an olive oil/rosemary/garlic kind of marinade over several days and they are truly a game changer.
Only on pizza
Olives are great, but I also like pickled baby corn, hearts of palm, pickled Okra... I think there is a certain heritage/genetic component to enjoying pickled foods. I have mostly Swedish and German ancestry, just about anything pickled, cured, salted or brined is the shit.
If you haven't tried them yet, oil cured olives are awesome. Kinda bitter, soft and chewy, with a real deep olive flavor. Don't eat to many at once or your shit will slip right past your anus. You've been warned.
I wasn't ready for your second last sentence, almost spat my lunch out.
You are wrong. You don't like them.
I don't like em, but not to the level of gross. Pickles are gross for me, olives I can either move to the side or ignore as a mildly worse meal.
The first time I tried an olive as a kid, I thought I grabbed a grape.
Needless to say, I hate olives.
I used to hate olives, along with a lot of other things. Peppers. Beans. Blue cheese. And I used to tell everyone about how much I disliked stuff.
But then I grew up. You don't have to eat olives if you don't want. But if you restrict your life to your little pre-approved list of acceptable foods, you're missing out.
Life is short. Way too short. You don't want to discover how delicious a dirty martini with blue cheese olives is when you're old.
Your loss, buddy. Olives taste great and go great on several foods, like pizza, rice, spaghetti, tacos, salad.
Weirdly enough, I didn't like them back when I was small, like up to 10yo or so.
I like a variety of olives. Like most foods, it's possible you'd like an olive, if you had a bunch to choose from.
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