Green olives are____________

[lxskllr]

I can't stand American olives...even ones that masquerade as Spanish Manzanilla olives. Actual olives from Spain are the bomb. If you want to try, get some from www.tienda.com and you will see what real olives taste like. I prefer the Ybarra brand of manzanillas.

I got some good American green olives from BigLots. I can't remember the brand, but they were in plastic bags, and had peppers, and garlic cloves mixed in also. The still had the pits, and the extra spices gave it a tiny bit of bite. Delicious, and I can go through a bag in 1 sitting.

 

[Arkaign]

Feel the same way about black olives...on pizza or otherwise...and those gross Kalamata olives the Italians grow. Yeah I said it...send your Mafia beeyaches!...lol

Fail

Kalamata is a region in Greece, and the olive variety Kalamata is a famous GREEK variety.

I can totally understand olives not being to your taste though. I can't stomach bell peppers, artichokes, or eggplant, but to those who like them, more power to ya!

 

[ElFenix]

I can't stand American olives...even ones that masquerade as Spanish Manzanilla olives. Actual olives from Spain are the bomb. If you want to try, get some from www.tienda.com and you will see what real olives taste like. I prefer the Ybarra brand of manzanillas.

i'm fairly certain that if, rather than being packed in a can immediately, the olives were to be brined and fermented for a while you wouldn't be able to tell the difference. iirc, the brine and fermentation is where the flavor comes from.

raw olives are just about unedible, so the 'fresh olive' posters aren't quite right. you have to fight club them for a while before they're edible.


20 foot olive bar

 

[sixone]

green olives and dill pickles = the balls and dick of vinegary salty goodness.

I swallow. :biggrin:

 

[BoomerD]

The
green spanish olives stuffed with pimento" that are commonly used in martinis...suck.

I'd rather eat the bland crap sold as canned black olives.

HOWEVER, I live in olive country...or near the biggest olive groves in Kahleeforneeya.

Usually once per year we make the drive up to Corning to some of the olive shops to stock up.

IMO, the curing process is key to the end product, plus, after the cure, how they're soaked and in what determines the end flavor.

We buy green olives stuffed with garlic, jalapenos, plain, pitted, and several other flavors...depending on the harvest and cure for the year.

 

[sandorski]

No, it's quite different. Anyone who has had both can tell you definitively :

Naturally ripened 'black' olives look like this for the most part, sometimes a little darker, sometimes a little brighter depending on the variety in question :

Canned 'black' olives which are artificially ripened or dyed come out almost completely black, and are the ones typically used on Pizzas or in fast food places. They typically taste bland and are cheaply produced for mass market consumption.

It's a pretty big difference, and it doesn't take much to educate yourself on the matter. You said that you found my post ridiculous, even though I responded with the very description I was talking about. If you don't have a local supplier of quality fresh olives, at least google it before you go off on a tangent

Naturally ripened anything is always better, but that's another issue.

 

[Locut0s]

Green olives stuffed with _______ are the best.

Garlic

jalapeno

Got some right here, yumm yumm.

 

[eits]

i used to hate olives when i was in high school. i love them now.

 

[FoBoT]

...nasty


black olives FTW

 

[TheSlamma]

amazing, especially on an Angelo's chicken and green olive pizza.

 

[PepePeru]

abundant in Spain.

 

[kalrith]

...disgusting just like all olives.

 

[spidey07]

Green olives stuffed with Jalepeno = best.

Honestly haven't had an olive I don't like. We just made an awesome tapenade the other day using a big quart of quality olives from costco.