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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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[-] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 97 points 5 months ago

I love olives. Olives are great.

I will die on this hill.

Then perish.

[-] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 65 points 5 months ago

I will take all of your olives

[-] Kalkaline@leminal.space 18 points 5 months ago

Pass those kalamata olives over here.

[-] RozhkiNozhki@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Hey you gotta share.

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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 34 points 5 months ago

I will die on this hill.

Do it. Leaves more olives for the rest of us.

[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Also may make good bonemeal for an olive tree to grow there

OP, your sacrifice means more olives

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[-] orangeNgreen@lemmy.world 28 points 5 months ago

I like olives.

[-] kaffiene@lemmy.world 24 points 5 months ago

You're entitled to your wrong opinion.

[-] slurpinderpin@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago

Clearly not a martini drinker

[-] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I've learned that I don't give a shit if a martini is shaken OR stirred. They're all fucking disgusting. I love gin, but who the fuck thought super salty gin would taste good? The olive is the only good part of the whole thing.

Except for espresso martinis, those are good.

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[-] HeyMrDeadMan@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago

This might as well be heaven for me.

[-] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago

I will die on this hill.

R.I.P.

[-] ccunning@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago

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 🥴

[-] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

So you're saying that I need to travel to where olives are made?

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Or just to a middle eastern grocer.

Also - Castelvetrano are the olives that non-olive people often like. The flavor is mild and buttery, not as sour as most but without the metallic edge the black olives have.

[-] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Thank you for the recommendations! I might see if the super fancy grocery store by my work has those olives. If they don't, then I'll try to find a middle eastern grocer. I don't mind taking a minor road trip to find legit olives. I wanna know if I just don't like the ones I've been exposed to.

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[-] Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

I don't like olives.

But it doesn't need to be an argument.

[-] grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

Olives are the best Change my mind

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago
[-] Sleezy_Salesman@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

Your family probably deserved it.

[-] spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

Fuckin love em

[-] DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

I do not like olives.

[-] basilisa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 5 months ago

You're so wrong...

[-] HurlingDurling@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

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

[-] Melkath@kbin.social 9 points 5 months ago

Hearing you hate olives makes me think you probably only like Mountain Dew and Chicken Nuggies.

[-] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

Mountain dew sucks. Nuggies are okay but only if they're dino shaped. Rn, I'm really digging fresh mozzarella with pesto.

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[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

You haven't specified what types you've tried so I have a feeling you've a shaky basis for disliking them

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[-] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

most olives are delicious, I have had certain "fancy" olives that were just awful though

[-] TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 9 points 5 months ago

I would guess you have a palate more used to high fructose corn syrup than high tree foreign shit

[-] PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

I'm not a picky eater at all but I loathe olives. If they're in a dish I can't taste anything else.

[-] sxan@midwest.social 8 points 5 months ago

This should be in c/unpopular opinion

There are two kinds of people: ones who love olives, and ones who haven't tried every kind of olive.

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[-] MrsDoyle@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

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.

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i am going to feed you thousands of olives per hour.

[-] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 8 points 5 months ago

You are wrong. You don't like them.

[-] HootinNHollerin@slrpnk.net 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Love. I love olives. But I don’t buy those cheap garbage I grew up on. I get much better ones

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

I'm a can and a half in.

[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Yes, I do. Olives are great on pizza and in salad. You're wrong, but there's still time for you to see the light.

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[-] Zerlyna@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Love kalamata, then black. Green are ok stuffed with garlic or blue cheese.

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[-] athos77@kbin.social 7 points 5 months ago

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.

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[-] Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 months ago

You are wrong. Olives are great.

[-] Ejh3k@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

As someone that loves just about everything pickled, I hate olives.

[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

I fucking love olives. Green, black, big, small, as long as they're not stuffed with onions I'm down.

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[-] SeveralAnts@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

I like olives.

[-] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 5 months ago

A side effect of aging for me is that now I like olives.

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