Olives are delicious, olive oil is ghastly. What's up with that?
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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.
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 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
I like olives, but not all olives. There's some nasty olives out there.
Black olives? Yes
Green/Greek olives? Nope!
Love them. So much. Nearly every kind. One of the oldest cultivated foods. Die on your hill, or just realize that you have an uncultured palate!
Farther down you say you like pesto, which is like half olive oil. From olives.
Olive oil is fine. It's just olives themselves I don't like. Idk if I just don't have access to good olives or what. I've tried so goddamn hard to like them. I've tried so many. I just don't like them. I also live in a poverty-stricken part of the US, which may explain the lack of quality food around.
Olives are pretty great. Like the green ones more than then darker ones.
Love them. Especially the green ines. Sometimes i oick up a jar as a mivie snack.
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Like them? I love them!!
Only on pizza
canned olives are disgusting. Real ones you get in the mediterranean are amazing. I also hate the green olives but LOVE kalamata olives
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 delicious.
The great thing, for most people, about a food being gross is that you don't have to eat it. Is someone forcing you to eat olives? I mean, maybe you've just not tried fresh olives?
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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.
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.
Not everyone can be right about everything.
Their taste is pretty neutral to me but I end up puking after eating the black ones. Not really sure why.
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.
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No, I do not like olives. I can enjoy them in some dishes, but those are few and far between.
Olives are great! Olive Gardens? Not so much.
I love them. I prefer green olives the way we prepare them in my country, to black.
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I am a straight up menace when there's a jar of blue cheese olives around.
blue cheese olives ? gotta admit I never tried that combination
They're common for martinis, but you can find them premade in jars at the store usually in the pickled section. I like em by themselves
Hate ‘em, but I’m ok with olive oil.
I'm with you. They're gross.