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I need to settle an argument I started. My argument: olives are gross.

I will die on this hill.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] xc2215x 1 points 7 months ago

Personally I do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] MargotRobbie 1 points 7 months ago

I like them stirred with gin and vermouth and served in a cocktail glass. Alcohol makes everything better.

So, a martini.

[–] Bytemeister 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] morphballganon 1 points 7 months ago

I like black but not green or kalamata.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon 1 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] Anticorp 1 points 7 months ago

Olives are good, my whole family likes them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

tbh olives are great in salads, I could never eat them on their own tho😬

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I do like an olive now and again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I agree with you. Olives are some of the most gross food I know. I will literally gag if I eat them.

[–] beanlurks 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Too many olives is gross. Some olives is acceptable.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver 0 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

No, I don't like them

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

I eat them, but I too find then distasteful.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Nope. They're disgusting.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

I've tried olives. I just couldn't get past the juices that they're stored in which I feel ruins the taste.

I prefer sliced olives on supreme pizzas and that's it.

[–] MintyFresh -1 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] TheControlled -1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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.

[–] DirkMcCallahan -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Black olives are the shit. Green olives are shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I've heard many people say the opposite of this.

(My own team is olive hater)

[–] JustAnotherRando -1 points 7 months ago

Olives exist to be pressed and processed for oil. Olive oil is delicious, but I can't stand olives themselves.

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