Do you like olives? I have a reason I am asking.

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  • iggyboo93
    iggyboo93 Posts: 524 Member
    I love love love olives. Sadly, they have to be an occasional treat due to the sodium content.
  • motown13
    motown13 Posts: 688 Member
    So yesterday I was at Costco and I was looking at the pre - packaged foods for my family dinner, when I came upon something I had never seen them have before ---- Deep Dish Pizza. And it had lots of the normal toppings but what I noticed was that there were TONS of black olives on it.

    Now, me, I HATE OLIVES to the point that I don't even like looking at them. And I was just going from my own opinion, but when I saw that pizza, I was thinking that most people don't like olives, so having lots of olives on a pizza was a poor idea. Nobody in my family really likes olives, though at least my wife won't pick them out of stuff; she will eat them if they are already in a dish.

    Then I thought about my mom and brother.... nope, they both hate olives.... And then I thought about my friends, and I can't say that I know that any of them particularly enjoy olives either.

    Do you like olives?

    Pro tip:

    Just because you don't like something and everyone you know personally is in agreement with you, does not automatically put you in the majority opinion.


    Really? Wow, you're a genius!

    Because I never said that people have to agree with me. I simply stated that I didn't know anybody who loved olives, so I was rather surprised to see the pizza loaded with olives.

    Pro Tip. Read and understand a post before being snarky.
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,409 Member
    Is this still going? AND PizzaCostcoLady is still upset? :laugh:


    I worked in the restaurant biz for 20 years. There are a lot of people who don't like tomatoes, mushrooms, onion, garlic, meat, alcohol, and probably olives.

    One thing I learned is that people are way too picky about food. I love all the above.


    Now, sardines...:noway:
  • melindasuefritz
    melindasuefritz Posts: 3,509 Member
    I do
  • taunto
    taunto Posts: 6,420 Member
    hells yeah I like olives. A pizza with Olives is a better pizza!
  • MandaJean83
    MandaJean83 Posts: 675 Member
    I don't like olives by themself, but I do enjoy them on pizza or in a taco dip! :)
  • SairahRose
    SairahRose Posts: 412 Member
    Yes.

    Kalamata, black, green, ripe and freshly pickled, doesn't matter. If it's an olive, I'll eat it.

    ^^^This!!!

    My son actually get's extra black olives on his pizza and subs!!

    Same here, to both :P My youngest one does the same as well. The guy in Subway looks at me for clarification when both of them ask for olives - as if it's an odd thing for a child to eat :P
  • Neeser926
    Neeser926 Posts: 100 Member
    Green olives right out of the jar! Yum. Black olives only when mixed in food, not just to eat plain.
  • i love black olives. my brother and mom dont. my dad and i do. weird
  • grrrlface
    grrrlface Posts: 1,204 Member
    I love olives! I could eat them all day! :3
  • Seahawk27
    Seahawk27 Posts: 72
    I love them all!
  • SuperSexyDork
    SuperSexyDork Posts: 1,669 Member
    My whole family loves olives.

    I'm pretty meh about green olives but my Love will fill a bowl full of them and eat them as a snack and once a can of black olives is opened at my house, my girls devour it.
  • alfiedn
    alfiedn Posts: 425 Member
    I don't like them much, but my husband loves them! (As do my dad and mom)
  • oddyogi
    oddyogi Posts: 1,816 Member
    Can't stand olives. I pick them off food and still taste their olivey flavor left behind and it's gross.

    Yeck.
  • 3foldchord
    3foldchord Posts: 2,918 Member
    I feel the same as you about black olives.. Even seeing then odor in a food is almost disgusting and picking them off by hand still leaves the nasty, nasty flavor.

    But, oddly, I LOVE green olives!!! I am so disappointed that almost all premodern puzzas or restaurant pizzas have only the option of black o.ives. I use a monstrous amount of green olives when I make my own.
  • ScatteredThoughts
    ScatteredThoughts Posts: 3,562 Member
    Nope, but my wife and kids like them.
  • jollyjoe321
    jollyjoe321 Posts: 529 Member
    I personally love olives, the more the merrier!
  • cpego1
    cpego1 Posts: 39 Member
    Green olives yes, black olives no
  • Contrarian
    Contrarian Posts: 8,138 Member
    I like all olives.
  • KarenJanine
    KarenJanine Posts: 3,497 Member
    Love 'em all. When a pizza place has olives as a topping option I'm happy.
  • kpk54
    kpk54 Posts: 4,474 Member
    After 5 months and 12 pages...surely this must be a study/survey by some employee of some company debating "to olive or not to olive".

    My opinion counts. I LOVE every type of olive I have ever eaten.
  • tinylightsbelow
    tinylightsbelow Posts: 85 Member
    I like the green ones but the black ones are too salty for me.
  • phyllisgehrke
    phyllisgehrke Posts: 238 Member
    I love olives.
    But I am on Blood Pressure Medication so I have to limit my olives.
  • Redbird99ky
    Redbird99ky Posts: 305 Member
    I LOVE olive them!
  • Mario_Az
    Mario_Az Posts: 1,331 Member
    yes
  • adlace
    adlace Posts: 375 Member
    Love olives, but olive bars to creep me out for some reason....lol
  • toutmonpossible
    toutmonpossible Posts: 1,580 Member
    I love them. I never buy them, though, because of the calories.
  • bulbadoof
    bulbadoof Posts: 1,058 Member
    They are way too salty for me, but I can pick them off, I won't complain.
  • Jonesingmucho
    Jonesingmucho Posts: 4,902 Member
    Sorry ... I LOVE olives - all kinds.

    Never met an olive I didn't like....
  • LOVE!!!!!!!