Are you one of those people who don't like olives?

Grow up

You could try, but I'm not sure they have much in the way of nutrition.

Squeeze 'em and throw 'em away.

The devil's garnish.

Matt-fatso shitposts I have known, volume one million

[quote]Grow up

Because I like olives? Are they a kid's food?

Love 'em.

My mother doesn't like them and complains about it whenever anyone else in the family eats them.

They take up too much room in those little glasses.

Nope. Love 'em all.

[quote] Because I like olives? Are they a kid's food?

No, but it's poor people food. You type poor.

OP - Their sexually suggestive shape triggers my internalized homophobia.

Well, I'm poor, r11. How can I type rich?

I don't like them. Pungent, rubbery, muddy-earthy, drab. What's to love? If a human toe were a food, it would be an olive.

In childhood, only the black ones, usually at thanksgiving, directly from the crudités tray, putting one on each finger tip and waving them around menacingly and then popping them in my mouth one by one. But now those black ones from the can are like eating rubber easers and are to be avoided, except perhaps as part of thanksgiving nostalgia. Olives are something that are best enjoyed with a refining adult palate, now I most love kalamatas , especially on pizza with fresh mozzarella and arugula and I like my classic green with pimento in egg & olive salad.

No olive loaf for lunch today, dear?

I like them baked in cheese dough. Lovely canapé.

Certain people seem to love a stinky, pungent taste profile...two coworkers who happen to be Italian eat seemingly only repulsively stinky or pungent foods, including olives, capers, Greek yogurt, stinky cheeses, vinegar in any way they can get it, and they also love herbs and spices I find repulsive including licorice and anise.

Nocellara, kalamata, castelvetrano, nyon, beldi, manzanilla, gaeta, gordal; love them all, and many more. There are so many varieties that I find it hard to believe people when they say they don't like olives (usually because they've tried some shit from the supermarket and, like a child, that one experience becomes absolute.)

Olives 🫒

YUCK!

But I do Like and consume olive oil

I loathe olives and it’s the one food since childhood I cannot stomach. I guess the other is raw onion.

They’re just so pungently bitter to me and adds nothing enjoyable to a meal. I can handle olives mixed with things or a tapenade in moderation, but plain sliced olives? Yeech.

Olives are my favorite! Growing up mother even had a dish with fake ceramic olives on the edge that she used to serve olives.amd other pickles in for all the holidays!!

Canned olives in water are disgusting, but cured and freshly brined ones are wonderful with the aperitivo "experience."

The only use for canned olives is as an ingredient in puttanesca sauce.

I heard many great things about Publix, but I am most envious of their Olive Bar. Especially if it’s mix and match and you know which are the really expensive ones and can beat the system.

My martini can never be too dirty 🍸

Like beet salad, olives (specifically kalamata olives) are something I suddenly developed a taste for in middle age. Olives, cheese, baguette = a meal

[quote] But I do Like and consume olive oil

I could lick Olive Oil all night long!

hate them

OP - Who you calling "those people" motherfucker?!

i love olives but i find that like gin and tonic when i swallow that strange taste - i want to claw somebody's eyes out. but i love them!

Olives = 2% nutrition and 50% salt.

I hate olives. Weirdly though, I love mushrooms.

Olives are vile. I couldn't trust anyone who lies through their teeth and pretends that they like them.

I like Mediterranean food so yes

If you don't like olives, you kill kittens.

R18 i bet their cum tastes like heaven, though. Tossed salad, indeed

People who don't like olives have baby taste.

R27, me too! You can have dinner with me anytime, and I bake my own baguette.

I love them stuffed with garlic or blue cheese!

I love Oloves but the price is ridiculous.

If you don't like black olives, you're racist!

I like them and eat kalamata olives as a snack on a regular basis. Low carb/calorie with some protein and high in fiber and oleic acid (MUFA) which is a good fat with many benefits.

But high in sodium?

^^^ rinse, rinse, rinse!

R25, I partook of the vaunted Publix Olive Bar yesterday- olives, stuffed peppers, and mozzarella as well.

They put all the high end olives and mozzarella balls at the very back, you have to reach awkwardly an arm’s length under the sneeze guard to get at them, but at 8.99lb was worth every penny.

Half a pound was a great snack if you’re on Keto and you don’t like pickles.

[quote]Certain people seem to love a stinky, pungent taste profile...two coworkers who happen to be Italian eat seemingly only repulsively stinky or pungent foods, including olives, capers, Greek yogurt, stinky cheeses, vinegar in any way they can get it, and they also love herbs and spices I find repulsive including licorice and anise.

Tell me you have babytastes without telling me you have babytastes.

Olives go well with cod.

I love olives too. All kinds. I could eat them every day. I really like the bigger Mediterranean oily ones. So good.

[quote] I like Mediterranean food so yes

You misspelled men, dear.

I like black olives....the green ones make me gag. Not a fan, overall.

I can tolerate sliced green olives, on celery, smeared with cream cheese.

As long as I live, I will NEVER understand people who cannot comprehend that not everyone likes the same things. I never question why someone doesn't like a food that I love - if they don't like it, that's all the explanation needed. To try and convince someone to like something just because YOU like it is egotistical insanity.

Oh, and I don't like olives.

Green olive pizza...yummo! I love olive loaf!

Calm down, UKGuy, I'm not trying to force you to like anything. I was just asking if you liked them , and why not?

Horrible nasty things, black and green. Yuck.

When planning a drive to California, I will actually choose I-5 over 101 just so I can go to the Olive Pit.

Where I live, life would be a little tricky if I didn't like olives, and impossible if I didn't like olive oil which is part of every meal.

Olives are brought when you sit down for a meal or a drink. The waiter will keep replacing the bowls for hours if you like. Markets are filled with them. Everyone has favorites, and knows which villages have especially good olives of a certain type and method of preparation. My father-in-law makes superb ones, medium green, huge, soft, and deep in flavor. There are all sorts, but mostly they are served as olives, alone, on their own merit, much more than incorporated as an ingredient in a dish.

Where do you live R58 - sounds like Heaven.

I love black olives right out of the can. Black Olives Matter. :-)

I hated olives based on the crappy ones we had available growing up. It wasn't until maybe 8-10 years ago that I ventured to taste a variety and then I loved them.

The things we miss in life because we get set in our initial impressions.

Have any of you read the memoir An Olive Grove at the End of the World about two Gay expats in New Zealand?

Spain, R59. Where olives are a very big thing.

I love olives, artichokes, anchovies and capers but the rest of my family doesn't.

I love to suck on them , roll them around in my mouth before swallowing.

Texture.

[quote]I love to suck on them , roll them around in my mouth before swallowing.

Are we still talking about olives?

Can’t eat them by themselves, but love adding them to salads, cooked dishes.

The gonads(male) of the culinary world.

Funny, R68 I can't stand them with anything but on their own I don't mind them. I just think they overpower everything when mixed in.