Do you like olives?
Do you like olives?
I need to settle an argument I started. My argument: olives are gross.
I will die on this hill.
I love olives. Olives are great.
I will die on this hill.
Then perish.
I like olives.
You're entitled to your wrong opinion.
This might as well be heaven for me.
I would have died on that hill with you for most of my life.
But it always seemed odd to me; I wasn’t a picky eater so what was different about olives?! I would try them from time to time but still gagged on them.
Then I tried some while I was living in the Middle East. They slowly be came more and more palatable until now I love them.
Those shitty canned black sliced olives are still awful though 🥴
I do not like olives.
I don't like olives.
But it doesn't need to be an argument.
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.
Fuckin love em
I would guess you have a palate more used to high fructose corn syrup than high tree foreign shit
I'm a can and a half in.
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
Love. I love olives. But I don’t buy those cheap garbage I grew up on. I get much better ones
You are wrong. You don't like them.
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.
You are wrong. Olives are great.
I'm not a picky eater at all but I loathe olives. If they're in a dish I can't taste anything else.
This should be in c/unpopular opinion
There are two kinds of people: ones who love olives, and ones who haven't tried every kind of olive.
most olives are delicious, I have had certain "fancy" olives that were just awful though
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.
For me olives were an acquired taste.
The first time I ate in a restaurant I was about 12 I think. It was a fancy Italian place. When I saw the dishes of (green, pimento-stuffed) olives on the table I was excited to try one. I'd only ever seen pictures of them in American magazines - this was mid-60s New Zealand, Coca Cola was exotic. I put one in my mouth, and almost gagged, the flavour was so completely awful. I spat it into a napkin.
Fast forward to today, and I would gladly hoover up the whole dishful and ask for more. My favourite olive is a big fat juicy Kalamata. I also love tapenade made with black olives. The only olives I dislike are the flavourless cardboardy lumps sometimes passed off as olives.
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.
As someone that loves just about everything pickled, I hate olives.
i am going to feed you thousands of olives per hour.
I like olives.
I hate them and agree, my wife loves them and 100% disagrees. She once had her olive privileges rescinded at a local bar.
Agreed, and I hate how many olives they tend to put in something.
I hate olives. I looooove olive oil.
A side effect of aging for me is that now I like olives.
This isn’t worth dying over, and olives are great so just relax a little bit.
I hated olives when I was a kid, then I grew to love it. Same with ginger. Red beets and celery I will never like though.
Olives are the foundation upon which civilisation was built.
I eat green olives straight out of the can for lunch sometimes.
Maybe the best fruit
Give me your olives then. I don't mind
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 black olives. I don't know about green olives. I haven't had any since I was a kid and they always had pimento in them and I know I don't like the pimento, but I don't remember what the olive itself tastes like.
they are grapes that never learned the grace of god
The first time I tried an olive as a kid, I thought I grabbed a grape.
Needless to say, I hate olives.
Love all olives!
Olives themselves, meh, but I fucking love olive oil.
Black olives? Yes
Green/Greek olives? Nope!
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.
No, I do not like olives. I can enjoy them in some dishes, but those are few and far between.
More olives for meeeee
No, I don't like them
Olives are delicious.
Mostly I think they are gross, but once in a blue moon I'll have something with olives that have been prepared in a way where they actually taste pretty good. It's rare though
I'm with you. They're gross.
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
Olives are amazing. I can buy a jar of it and eat it all in one go.
Like them? I love them!!
Not everyone can be right about everything.
Olives - at least as you usually buy them, in brine, often with pepper strips in them - I find delicious. But every person has their own tastes, you can't argue with subjective preferences.
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 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.
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
Only on pizza
tbh olives are great in salads, I could never eat them on their own tho😬
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.
It's funny you ask. I used to hate them. But over time, I was determined to overcome my food phobias.
canned olives are disgusting. Real ones you get in the mediterranean are amazing. I also hate the green olives but LOVE kalamata olives
No. With the exception of small shriveled black olives on pizza or nachos.
Whole, wet, green, black, pitted, or unpitted all the rest can get bent.
I like olives, but not all olives. There's some nasty olives out there.
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.
Hate ‘em, but I’m ok with olive oil.
I think olives are gross but I like them anyway. Only green olives though - black tastes bad.
Olives are good, my whole family likes them.
I agree with you. Olives are some of the most gross food I know. I will literally gag if I eat them.
Nope. They're disgusting.
Hated every kind, had some actually great ones in Greece, now I can sorta kinda get behind black olives. Greens are still a bit too bitter for my preference.
I do like an olive now and again.
Love
Not sure what kind they are, but Pearls Olives are great.
Dont like things like Greek olives.
Green olives are gross most of the time, but I dont mind them on a pizza with a bunch of other toppings.
I like them stirred with gin and vermouth and served in a cocktail glass. Alcohol makes everything better.
So, a martini.
I use to love black olives but idk what changed every single time I get them now they're brownish and taste spoiled. It doesn't matter where I go they're all the same now.
Their taste is pretty neutral to me but I end up puking after eating the black ones. Not really sure why.
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.
Olives exist to be pressed and processed for oil. Olive oil is delicious, but I can't stand olives themselves.
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.
I eat them, but I too find then distasteful.
Olives are great! Olive Gardens? Not so much.