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Do you like olives? (lemmy.world)

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

I will die on this hill.

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[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] Th4tGuyII@kbin.social 2 points 6 months ago

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

[-] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Black olives? Yes

Green/Greek olives? Nope!

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I like olives, but not all olives. There's some nasty olives out there.

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

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

[-] neidu2@feddit.nl 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Love them. Especially the green ines. Sometimes i oick up a jar as a mivie snack.

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[-] Scrof@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 months ago

Olives are delicious, olive oil is ghastly. What's up with that?

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[-] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 months ago

I think olives are gross but I like them anyway. Only green olives though - black tastes bad.

[-] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Only on pizza

[-] xePBMg9@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 6 months ago

Olives are pretty great. Like the green ones more than then darker ones.

[-] Corno@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Like them? I love them!!

[-] iarigby@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

canned olives are disgusting. Real ones you get in the mediterranean are amazing. I also hate the green olives but LOVE kalamata olives

[-] jimp@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

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

[-] Donebrach@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Olives are delicious.

[-] Toes@ani.social 1 points 6 months ago

Their taste is pretty neutral to me but I end up puking after eating the black ones. Not really sure why.

[-] whostosay@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

I am a straight up menace when there's a jar of blue cheese olives around.

[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

blue cheese olives ? gotta admit I never tried that combination

[-] whostosay@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

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

[-] MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Olives are great! Olive Gardens? Not so much.

[-] MadBob@feddit.nl 1 points 6 months ago

I do like an olive now and again.

[-] Jakdracula@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Hate ‘em, but I’m ok with olive oil.

[-] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

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

So, a martini.

[-] ForestOrca@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago

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?

[-] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

I know I've never had fresh olives. Nobody has forced me to eat them. My one friend and I argue (in a joke way) about things we have opposite opinions of lmao. We have different opinions on olives

[-] promitheas@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago

I love them. I prefer green olives the way we prepare them in my country, to black.

[-] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

How are they prepared where you're from? Maybe I'd like them that way lol

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[-] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 1 points 6 months ago

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

[-] amio@kbin.social 1 points 6 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.

[-] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] SoupBrick@pawb.social 1 points 6 months ago

No, I do not like olives. I can enjoy them in some dishes, but those are few and far between.

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