Olives, hate them or love them?

[strung out]

i bet electrogirl doesnt like capers

 

[marty21]

i bet electrogirl doesnt like capers

i reckon she might like them tbf

 

[strung out]

i guess we'll just have to wait for a new thread til we find out

 

[RubyToogood]

I can take them or leave them. Those stalls that sell nothing but olives are a bit of a mystery to me.

 

[moose]

Love 'em. Apart from the black wrinky ones, which are too salty. I have olives in almost everything I eat

 

[contadino]

Love 'em, but then I'm an olive farmer. There's loads of different ways to (pre)serve them that make them less salty. There's also loads of different types of olives with different flavours, from those big fat horrid Spanish ones that taste of nothing, through to the tiny black Leccese that are intense.

The smell at the olive mills in December, when the presses start rolling is sublime. I could stand there all day just sniffing it in.

 

[mentalchik]

can't stand them myself, I've tried, gawd I've tried, and i can eat them if they are all mashed up, in pesto (they are in pesto aren't they?) but eating a Olive, biting into it, makes me 'eave it does, makes me 'eave

poll coming

Me neither........


thing is i love olive oil but have tried several times to love olives and they are rank !

 

[dodgepot]

olives are lovely. i love them. they're lovely.

i used to be the only person in this flat who loved them so a jar of olives would be a treat to myself, but after trying them a few times the missus and the step-daughter both like them so now i have to share

 

[Herbsman.]

I like green picholine olives

 

[pigtails]

Took me a long time to acquire the taste but once I did I can't get enough of them!
Yummy

They are very nice in shepherds pie oddly enough!

 

[felixthecat]

Love 'em, love 'em love 'em!

Particularly those big fat black olives with feta cheese.......or green ones stuffed with garlic and marinated in oil and lemon juice..... a must on pizza.......

 

[El Jefe]

love them, but they belong on the list of things I couldn't abide when I was younger - horse radish, mustard, stuff like that. I guess yer palate gets jaded and you crave stronger flavours

 

[lizzieloo]

Love 'em, but then I'm an olive farmer. There's loads of different ways to (pre)serve them that make them less salty. There's also loads of different types of olives with different flavours, from those big fat horrid Spanish ones that taste of nothing, through to the tiny black Leccese that are intense.

The smell at the olive mills in December, when the presses start rolling is sublime. I could stand there all day just sniffing it in.

 

[harpo]

Love 'em, but then I'm an olive farmer. There's loads of different ways to (pre)serve them that make them less salty. There's also loads of different types of olives with different flavours, from those big fat horrid Spanish ones that taste of nothing, through to the tiny black Leccese that are intense.

The smell at the olive mills in December, when the presses start rolling is sublime. I could stand there all day just sniffing it in.

I hates them, I do. My OH is Puglian and his family consider it a deep insult (I suspect), but what can I do. I quite enjoy horse, though.

 

[Geri]

You have stick with olives and learn to love them. I used to be all 'yuk' and at the most have them cooked in a dish but then I had a slice of pizza covered in only chopped up black olives and I was hooked.

Yes, this is true. I forced myself to eat them, and now I love them.

I also tried this with Marmite but it didn't work with that.

 

[Badgers]

Wish I liked them but I hates them

 

[DotCommunist]

olives are rank bourgeoisie ponce food.

 

[Voley]

Olives are a rarefied taste the proles wouldn't understand.

 

[Belushi]

They're okay, dont love or hate them.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

Took me a long time to acquire the taste but once I did I can't get enough of them!
Yummy

They are very nice in shepherds pie oddly enough!

Hmm I am not sure if this isn't just a way to get back to the subject of sh... you-know-what pie.

Olives are delicious, especially black ones. I don't buy them often enough. <Makes note.>

 

[sojourner]

olives are rank bourgeoisie ponce food.

Olives are a rarefied taste the proles wouldn't understand.

I'd never had them until my early 30s. Now I like them - pitted black olives are dead versatile (eat em as they are, bung in loads of different meals), and I love stuffed (with chili) green olives

ooo I wonder what class I'm in

 

[DotCommunist]

I'd never had them until my early 30s. Now I like them - pitted black olives are dead versatile (eat em as they are, bung in loads of different meals), and I love stuffed (with chili) green olives

ooo I wonder what class I'm in

petit bourgeoisie of course. Plus you have had a child and everyone knows having spawn makes one more right wing

 

[danny la rouge]

I'd never had them until my early 30s.

No, me neither. We had olive oil in our medicine cabinet, in a tiny bottle, for putting in your ears.

Now that the proles like that stuff, the poshos have had to change. Olives are common now.

 

[onenameshelley]

God i love olives, last nights before bed snack was ryvita with green olive tapanade followed by a handful of black olives. And i went and bought some more olives at lunchtime cos i wanted a snack.

I go through those massive big jars in a week the cabbage doesnt get near them

 

[Crispy]

olives are awesome

 

[onenameshelley]

Olives are common now.

I knew there was a reason they tasted good in a cheese sarnie

 

[DotCommunist]

They are like balsamic vinegar, a sure sign of the aspirational petit bourgeoisie who probably don't even enjoy them but choke them down anyway with their mid-ranged priced named grape wine while watching some shit subtitled french film.

Yeah.

 

[sojourner]

Plus you have had a child and everyone knows having spawn makes one more right wing

It does? fuck - if I'd have known that, I'd have not done it!

 

[sojourner]

They are like balsamic vinegar, a sure sign of the aspirational petit bourgeoisie who probably don't even enjoy them but choke them down anyway with their mid-ranged priced named grape wine while watching some shit subtitled french film.

Yeah.

Oh god

I also first tasted balsamic and watched my first subtitled french film at the same time

And I liked both. Kill me now

 

[Shirl]

First time I had olives was in a dry martini. I've never looked back, I loves 'em