Olives.

I really like giant green olives stuffed with whole garlic cloves. Right now I am enjoying some green olives stuffed with miced anchovies. What are you favorite olives and uses for olives?

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You are SO GOOD!

i thought garlic was one of those cheese things you could only eat in miniature portions.

i had some nice guacamole with olives recently?

"cheese things"?

Olives is one of the pillars of life for me.

And the other?

Coffee. Wine. Music.

Oh, I thought it said one of two pillars of life.

Are they called Mezzetta's? Those are the best.

I like all sorts of olives, although the oil-cured black ones that are really really intense are perhaps a bit really really intense for me.

As I child I would sit and eat a whole can (yes CAN, and store brand no less) of black pitted olives in one sitting. These were the only olives I knew until my '20s.

Now I particularly enjoy nicoise, but I'll eat all these olives, really.

I still eat a can of black olives sometimes.

"cheese things"?

cheese things: like ginger. delicious but not something you can tear off a hunk of and eat.

But you can do that with cheese.

^^^ real talk

You are SO GOOD!

― roxymuzak, Sunday, January 11, 2009 1:04 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark

i've been drinking but basically this is the greatest foodstuff ever

dry black olives are all-time yoga flame but if yoga is jujitsu and flame is a solar flare

a freak solar flare that travels like 3m miles into space

stretchy flare

Aren't you a greek dude LJ? Or did I make that up?

I still can't wrap my tongue around olives but maybe it's because I've only had shitty salad bar olives? if I upgrade and get some of those olives in a jar with garlic will that be better?

YES dyao YES. Any kind of properly marinaded or salted olives will hit the spot beautifully. Also, I am indeed half Greek Cypriot, I confess. Olives come with the territory. Not that this makes them any less wondrous. I can't think of a single downside to olives.

you have convinced me I will pick up a jar of salt and olives asap

olives

er you don't need to salt them yourself! hopefully the shop will have done that for you. the black olives are best salted, the green olives best marinaded in garlic etc, but you can swap them over

haha I meant salt and olives in some kind of liquid contained in a jar, not implying that I was going to marinate them myself! lol

From birth until about 5 months ago I had completely avoided olives in any form. Then this summer I bought a jar of tomato sauce that I didn't know had olives in it and HEY GUESS WHAT they aren't too bad.
Now I'm at the stage where I'll pickup a jar, shake it around a bit, look at the floaty stuff, but put it back on the shelf and get some pickles. Those garlic stuffed jams though - if they have them at ShopRite I'll def get a jar.

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I never knew olives like this before

in the summer I went to Crete

let me tell you something about Crete, they got a lotta olives

wow i have def exploded my mind thinking abt olives cuz like it's such a triumph aren't they like rocks straight off the tree dudes gotta do something special to make them edible and then look out

if you like that sort of thing

like(from wikipedia)
Freshly picked olive fruit is not palatable because it contains phenolic compounds and oleuropein, a glycoside which makes the fruit too bitter, although not unhealthy.[31] (One exception is the Thassos olive, which can be eaten fresh.)[citation needed] There are many ways of processing olives for eating. Traditional methods use the natural microflora on the fruit and procedures which select for those flora that ferment the fruit. This fermentation leads to three important outcomes: the leaching out and breakdown of oleuropein and phenolic compounds; the creation of lactic acid, which is a natural preservative; and a complex of flavoursome fermentation products. The result is a product which will store with or without refrigeration.

no tv, no internet, no printing press -- what say we figure out wtf you can do with the fruit from those damn trees that're growin all over the fuckin place

fo reals
like who was the first dude to be like whoa lets put these in water for a minute whoops it's been like a month hey remember these fruits that tasted like ass dude try them now whoa

now let's try that again wit mo salt

Olives are one of the most extensively cultivated fruit crops in the world.[35] In 2008 there were 10.8 million hectares planted with olive trees, which is more than twice the amount of land devoted to apples, bananas or mangoes. Only coconut trees and oil palms command more spac

fuck yeah check it out if I mash one of em under this rock I get oil

now I put the fruit back into the oil

check me out dude I'm a chef, where's my hat

ppl who figured that shit out are teh true heroes imo

like there was probably a dude whose ENTIRE LIFE was trial-and-error trying to figure out how to eat olives, and he didn't even know 100% for sure that he would be able to, in the end

imagine being the guy who spent his whole life trying to figure out a way to eat pine cones or something :(

no wait imagine the guy who invented hash

no wait imagine the guy who realized that you could filter it through water, the man whose name was i believe j. walter BONGSTEIN

every few months I pick up a jar of olives thinking 'this is going to be the jar of olives that makes me love eating olives'

hasn't happened yet so far

lol@y'all thinking it was some guy when you know it had to been some cave lady going "shit, cavedude bringing home nothing but lizards and grubs from these damn hunting trips maybe i can fix up a casserole with some of these bitter purple things that ain't working out as dye or headache remedies".

it's true :(

loool til I coughed @ "j. walter bongstein"

how did j.w. bongstein or that cave lady deduce that the interior of an artichoke is edible

stared @ artichoke til it revealed its secrets in song iirc

I love olives. Everyone in my family loves olives. At Thanksgiving we put olives out & it's mortal kombat to get your share.

Yet if we have other "grown-ups" over they'll invariably be amazed that my kids love olives. wtf?

when I was a kid I would not cross the street to piss on an olive

that was just how much I hated them

Favorite luxury food item: grandiose cerignola olives brined with lemon slices

u must have secretly loved them if u refused to piss on them

actually i remember the exact moment i started liking olives. it was like an epiphany. i was thinking about how i loved olive oil more than anything, then i was like wait a second, AHHHHHHHHH

no wait imagine the guy who realized that you could filter it through water, the man whose name was i believe j. walter BONGSTEIN

― shirley summistake (s1ocki), Saturday, November 20, 2010 7:57 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

bongSTEIN eh? ZOG even controls the world's weed... mein gott...

I still dont' love olive oil either :(

jews did 4:20

^lol

aeroboot if you wanna mythbust, do so here

when I was a kid I would not cross the street to piss on an olive

that was just how much I hated them

Meee toooo.

And then I thought "fuckit, I'm sick of missing out on salads why coz they always have damn olives" and I made myself try some and I was all hey these black ones, they r ok I guess.

And then one day I had fat juicy green olives stuffed w/FETA CHEESE. Game over. Instant love.

o love

So salty.

But so damn good.

have just been forking these str8 out of the jar

wtf i can't find nicoise olives anywhere! maybe i should go to Nice

i guess alphonso, gaeta, or kalamata sub

^^^^ omg I have been complaining about the same nicoise scarcity for MONTHS now! I finally found some at a very small import shop in the DC 'burbs. They are my favorite olive!

They used to always always always have them at Whole Foods, but now NEVAH.

That is odd. I haven't used nicoise olives for a few months but I recall seeing them at the olive/antipasto bars in the local grocery stores.

i just got me some kalamata cuz that's what they have at the olive kiosk at dominicks
mmm mmm erm tasty treats them