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.
This might as well be heaven for me.
You're entitled to your wrong opinion.
I will die on this hill.
R.I.P.
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 🥴
That's not an argument, it's an opinion and you are entitled to it, completely wrong as it may be.
I don't like olives.
But it doesn't need to be an argument.
Fuckin love em
I do not like olives.
You're so wrong...
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
I would guess you have a palate more used to high fructose corn syrup than high tree foreign shit
most olives are delicious, I have had certain "fancy" olives that were just awful though
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.
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.
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.
Love. I love olives. But I don’t buy those cheap garbage I grew up on. I get much better ones
i am going to feed you thousands of olives per hour.
You are wrong. You don't like them.
I'm a can and a half in.
I'm not a picky eater at all but I loathe olives. If they're in a dish I can't taste anything else.
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.
You are wrong. Olives are great.
I like olives.
Yes. Black, green, stuffed, all of them. Yum
A side effect of aging for me is that now I like olives.
I hate olives. I looooove olive oil.
Olives are the foundation upon which civilisation was built.
I eat green olives straight out of the can for lunch sometimes.
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.
This isn’t worth dying over, and olives are great so just relax a little bit.
Maybe the best fruit
Give me your olives then. I don't mind
Black, sliced olives are something that I really like on pizza and some other savory foods.
I'm less-enthusiastic about green olives. I used to really dislike them as a kid. I'm okay with them now -- I think that as you grow up, your sense of taste becomes weaker and some things that were just overwhelming become more-palatable -- but it's still not a favorite food.
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
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.
I hate them and agree, my wife loves them and 100% disagrees. She once had her olive privileges rescinded at a local bar.
Olives themselves, meh, but I fucking love olive oil.
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Agreed, and I hate how many olives they tend to put in something.
Olives are amazing. I can buy a jar of it and eat it all in one go.
Love all olives!
More olives for meeeee
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.
The first time I tried an olive as a kid, I thought I grabbed a grape.
Needless to say, I hate olives.
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.
Black olives? Yes
Green/Greek olives? Nope!
Like them? I love them!!
Only on pizza
Olives are delicious.
I like olives, but not all olives. There's some nasty olives out there.
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 pretty great. Like the green ones more than then darker ones.
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.
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 think olives are gross but I like them anyway. Only green olives though - black tastes bad.
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
canned olives are disgusting. Real ones you get in the mediterranean are amazing. I also hate the green olives but LOVE kalamata olives
Olives are good, my whole family likes them.
I'm with you. They're gross.
Hate ‘em, but I’m ok with olive oil.
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 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.
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.
tbh olives are great in salads, I could never eat them on their own tho😬
I like black but not green or kalamata.
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 agree with you. Olives are some of the most gross food I know. I will literally gag if I eat them.
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Olives are amazing. I can buy a jar of it and eat it all in one go.
Olives are great! Olive Gardens? Not so much.
I do like an olive now and again.
No, I do not like olives. I can enjoy them in some dishes, but those are few and far between.
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.
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.
Their taste is pretty neutral to me but I end up puking after eating the black ones. Not really sure why.
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.
Not everyone can be right about everything.
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.
Nope. They're disgusting.
I eat them, but I too find then distasteful.
No, I don't like them
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.
Personally I do.
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.
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.
Olives exist to be pressed and processed for oil. Olive oil is delicious, but I can't stand olives themselves.