What are your favorites? How do you like them?

Pickled beets. They're good until you forget you ate them

I love beets. And the ensuing staring into a toilet wondering if I should go see a doctor
- Write "you ate beets" to a post-it and stick it on the mirror
Red pee? Red poop? Oh I ate beets.
Ah yes, that brief moment of cold panic where you sincerely contemplate being deathly ill but still able to do something about it... right before your memory kicks in.

Artichoke hearts. Straight from the jar with a fork. Yum.

Pimento olives, chopped fine and mashed into cream cheese, spread on pumpernickel (bread, bagel, etc).

Capers can fuck off entirely.

I was with you until you disparaged against capers
- Same. Capers are amazing. Still upvoted them though haha

You just made a list of many of the things I truly hate, food wise, lol. I guess sun-dried tomatoes are okay? 😅

I'm the exact opposite. Sun-dried tomatoes taste stale and plasticky to me. Everything else on the list is fantastico. Where would we be without capers in tartare sauce, or black olives on pizza?
- Where would we be without black olives on pizza
  We'd have pizza people actually wanted to eat!
  Don't get me wrong, if you want to keep more pizza for yourself, then olives are a great deterrent and that's a legit strategy.
  If you want to do a real case study, get only two pizzas and put olives on one, pineapple on the other, and just watch.
- Have you ever had homegrown sundried cherry tomatoes? I think there's a huge difference in flavor between good and bad tomatoes
I feel like I could save this picture and show it to people next time they ask what foods I can't stand.

Green olives. Preferably stuffed with garlic.

Pickles are my favorite, especially dill spears. I've also enjoyed capers on top of grilled salmon with (I think) a beurre blanc sauce. Kalamata olives on pizza is really good too.

Every one is an s tier food. I fucking love olives and pickles.

Round here we call cornichons “sweet gherkins” and they’re pretty good

Also: At one point you put black olives on your fingertips for the last time and you didn’t know it.

Cornichons aren't sweet, though. (Different kind of brine.)
- I guess it’s pretty American to add a bunch of sugar to something lol
That day has not yet come.

Pickles are definitely my favorite on that list. My favorite is probably zesty bread and butter, but I also love dill. Black olives are alright. Most pickled veg are pretty good. Pickled jalapenos are good, but I much prefer fresh ones.

I think pickled onions count and should be here so I would say that but I also enjoy capers in the right setting.

Marinated sun-dried tomatoes & garlic. I could eat that forever.

I make my own kimchi, sauerkraut, and various Chinese fermented vegetables.

I make what I call a "dirty margarita." Jalapeño stuffed olives are a must.

In a salad, kalamata or dried black olives.

Umeboshi

Are you Suppaman?
- Who? No idea who that is. I'm just a simple journalist. Check out my Substack. KentaKuraaku.substack.co.jp

Pickled asparagus and pepperoncinis.

Salt-fermented pickles. Mmmmm.

But really, I love all this stuff.

I love all of these, but if I could only ever live with one it would be capers.

Pickles a close second. My FIL has an amazing recipe for tuna salad: three ripe avocado, three tins of tuna drained and pressed for minimum moisture, three teaspoon mayo and six small pickles finely chopped. (3 tsp mayo is about 1tbsp, but i wrote it like that so you can adjust to size needed 1:1:1:2)

Now I want to share a great caper recipe. This one is definitely greater than the sum of its parts and I didn't think I liked sardines prior to this:
I use the oil from the sardines to make up part of the required olive oil
- How much oil did you use to make the recipe?
- I love the stains! I have recipe pages that look like this and know it is the sign of a well loved recipe.

2, 6 and 8 is fine.

Olives and capers can fuck right off!

I much prefer lacto-fermented foods over vinegar-pickled.

Peppers, both sweet and hot? Love 'em, especially fire roasted. Sun dried tomatoes? Hell yeah, great to cook with.

Soak something in vinegar though? Yeah, nah, I'm all set, thank you very much.

I just did a batch of lactofermented cherry tomatoes, and the one out of four jars that didn’t get moldy just tastes a bit salty, not really fermented. Not sure what I did wrong.

All have their place, but canned black olives tap into childhood nostalgia. Putting an olive on each finger and eating them one at a time.

Canned black olives are my favorite, followed by the pickle chips, and then regular pickles, which I'm not sure if funny-name-I've-never-seen-before is or if those are the weird sweet ones.

Everything on this list is my favorite, basically

4 and 5. I really dislike pickles. It's strange because they're both vegetables in pickled water

I like all of these except capers. I eat olives and pickles regularly.

4,5,6 & 8. Olives in a salad, pickles on a sandwich and artichoke on a pizza

jfc people!

Castelvetrano olives > everything on that list

I am this and have no regrets

I like them all haha.

Pickles might be my favorite though.

marinated garlic cloves, olives stuffed with almonds, mini peppers with cream cheese

also, capers and cornichons have no business being food.

In a martini
Off of fingertips (though my fingers are big enough that I just have to eat them out of the can)

Jalapeños. I like them on everything from nachos to burgers, but I vastly prefer fresh to pickled.

Sauerkraut. Only on a Reuben.

None of this sounds good

Found the reptilian
- These are all things I hated biting into on burgers and pizza so they have a very mild traumatization to them ruining them forever

Can’t forget the pickled okra!

Doritos

Ranch, Nacho?

In order: 8 (sans sauerkraut & pickled veggies), 1, 7, 3, 5, 4, 6, 2.

Chupadedos olives

Sweet gherkin, I guess?
\ I'm not exactly sure what the category is

Dry, salty, black olives. Best paired with a light beer and a blazing-hot summer day.

Pickled jalapenos are just fantastic. Hot, sour, flavorful, and just versatile at 'waking up' all kinds of food.

Capers are great on all kinds of savory dishes where you want a little salt and sourness, but other pickles would just be overkill.

Canned black olives belong on pizza, and the occasional loaded nacho plate. They're kind of awful in other applications.

As for the classic dill pickle, ever had one in Dr. Pepper?

Olives with beer taste just like toast! Fosters is the best for testing this theory.

Pickles will never voluntarily touch my plate, and when they do I push my plate to the nearest pickle person so I don’t have to remove it myself and get contaminated with the vinegar.

Sun dried tomatoes and the occasional kalamata olive I can tolerate. Artichoke hearts and roasted bell peppers are awesome.

I love pickles, Kalamata olives, kimchi, and artichoke hearts. I'd say I like everything else, although I've had some bad green olives and am not crazy about capers.

162... Meh on the rest

I love katamala olives and pickles. Black olives are fine if I can't get katamala.

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Make margaritas and empanadas with the Spanish olives.
Make nachos with canned black olives, jalapeños and maybe add the artichoke hearts… maybe.
Make chicken piccata with the capers. Yummm! I love capers! 🥰
Snack on cornichons; put sliced pickles in a sandwich (DIY chik-fil-a sandwich)
Put sauerkraut over kielbasa.

The sun-dried tomatoes and I do not get along but thanks for asking. Please throw them out.

A nice artichoke heart in oil hits a spot nothing else does, but the versatility of the black olive is hard to beat.

Sundrieds can also be really good, but you have to know how to use them.

Jarred red peppers are underrated as a replacement in basically any other place you'd put a red pepper.

Castelventrano olives, pickled okra

i had olives stuffed with lemon rind recently and was hooked. Also enjoy olives stuffed with jalapeños.

I’ve only had it once but theres also pickled watermelon rind

Flavor Blasted Goldfish

Lots of caper haters in the world. Sad!

From that list, kalamata olives. But have you tried garlic cloves in herb oil? So good!