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

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  • kbeech06
    kbeech06 Posts: 328 Member
    I love olives...black, green, kalamata. Just wish they weren't so high in sodium. Having some tonight on top of our Spanish Chicken and Rice...yummy!
  • souperficial
    souperficial Posts: 122 Member
    I'm the only one in my family that doesn't like olives. I'll eat a few black olives if they're cut up in a greek salad or something, but I won't go out of my way to eat them. I used to eat a bunch when I was little, though.
  • Tdk4685
    Tdk4685 Posts: 293 Member
    Don't like them at all. My daughter on the other hand will eat a whole can at one sitting.
  • WattsJA
    WattsJA Posts: 160 Member
    Have yet to meet and Olive I didn't like.
  • louised88
    louised88 Posts: 159
    Love them! my favourite pizza topping is olives and mushrooms, but i'm happy just eating a bowlful.
  • cowgirlup327
    cowgirlup327 Posts: 58 Member
    Love olives! A holiday doesn't pass without a bowl of extra large black olives on the table with the appetizers, no matter which member of my family's house...even if we're all celebrating a holiday in different places. Black olive pizza is my favorite.
  • Yolanda_85
    Yolanda_85 Posts: 143 Member
    I love green olives and will eat them out of the jar, my youngest sister will eat black olives out of the can...I will eat black olives in/on different foods, but don't like them plain, not sure if my lil sis eats green olives from the jar or not...my boyfriend HATES olives of all kinds! I have to be careful if I'm cooking with them to leave most of the dish olive free and just add olives to mine when I get my serving.
  • juliemouse83
    juliemouse83 Posts: 6,663 Member
    I have yet to meet an olive that I don't like.

    My Grampa used to make garlic cured black olives, as well as some jarred green ones with pits.

    I miss both my Grampa and those olives.
  • danasings
    danasings Posts: 8,218 Member
    Nope. Hate 'em. So does my husband and most of our family. BUT we have family members that love them, so...meh.
  • da_bears10089
    da_bears10089 Posts: 1,791 Member
    i lufff olives. i wish subway would have more than the standard 3 olives per 6 inch sandwich.
  • xFamousLastWordsx
    xFamousLastWordsx Posts: 301 Member
    I adore olives! Especially black ones and especially on pizza, but I will eat any kind. The grocery store I used to work at had a huge olive bar, I'd drool just walking past it cause it smelt so good!
  • mooglysmom
    mooglysmom Posts: 319 Member
    I know some people that like them. I don't care for the myself, and will send something back if it comes out with them on.

    Mostly because, if they're on my pizza, I feel like my pizza is looking at me.

    I can't help it, I'm weird, lol ;)
  • motown13
    motown13 Posts: 688 Member
    OP here....

    back in the early 90's I had a small business selling hot sauces / salsa / spicy foods at flea markets.

    I used to taste every single product that I sold before I would sell them. I would sell certain products even if I didn't like them as long as I could see why other people might like them, even if I didn't. If I couldn't even think other people would like them, I wouldn't carry the product at all.

    So, one day a woman came to my booth carrying 2 boxes in her hand. She was producing habanero and garlic stuffed olives.... big brown olives if I recall correctly. She wanted me to try them and then carry them.... I told her I couldn't try them because I knew I would hate them, having hated every olive I had ever tried.

    So she wanted me to buy the 2 boxes ( 24 jars in total ).... I told her I couldn't or wouldn't because I knew that I would not be a good salesperson for them, hating them so much.... This was in the summer.... I told her that if she wanted she could leave them on consignment with me, and when they sold, she could come and get her money....

    Well, a few weeks before Christmas I still had part of an open case, and a whole unopened case. I had planned to call the lady up to come and take her product back. Well one day someone came and bought all the stock I had... probably like 18 jars of olives.

    That was another reason that I thought that maybe most people didn't like olives.... granted, these were not ordinary olives, but I was selling less than 1 jar a week to people who did like hot and spicy foods.
  • LemonsAndCoffee
    LemonsAndCoffee Posts: 313 Member
    I loooove black olives. I don't care for any other ones though. My husband likes all olives. Both of my daughters like black olives and love it when I buy the can of whole ones because they put them on their fingers :tongue:
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,417 Member
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  • SoDamnHungry
    SoDamnHungry Posts: 6,998 Member
    I'll eat any that I've come across so far.
  • JulieBGoood
    JulieBGoood Posts: 120 Member
    I LOVE them, every kind!
  • Abi_bug04
    Abi_bug04 Posts: 220
    Olives are my favorite pizza topping!
    Black, Kalmata, Green...ALL OF THEM!
  • samantha1242
    samantha1242 Posts: 816 Member
    No. Only as oil. And occasionally in tapenade if its a good one.
  • terijoestoes
    terijoestoes Posts: 205 Member
    Yes all kinds. We eat olives every day. And if I get one of those pizzas I go home and put olives and other veggies on it.
  • kleavitt1992
    kleavitt1992 Posts: 592 Member
    Not at ALL
  • sahm23ladies
    sahm23ladies Posts: 91 Member
    Love love LOVE me some olives.

    I'm lucky that my husband and kids don't so I get their olives thrown on to my slice of pizza. YUM!
  • paulipet
    paulipet Posts: 70
    Nope, dislike them all. And I have tried and tried to like them to no avail.
  • Lisapayne76
    Lisapayne76 Posts: 157 Member
    I love olives. We snack on them at night
  • FitPhysique
    FitPhysique Posts: 284 Member
    Love all olives!
    ^^^^This
  • smclean77
    smclean77 Posts: 15 Member
    I am an olive lover! Now mushrooms...that is a whole nother story. Those little buggers contaminate!
  • Sweet_Potato
    Sweet_Potato Posts: 1,119 Member
    I thought maybe the OP lived in an odd part of the world where most people didn't grow up eating olives and therefore weren't used to them... but he's in the Philadelphia area with all those Italians! I grew up there and can't think of a single person I knew who didn't love olives.
  • bridgelene
    bridgelene Posts: 358 Member
    I HATE Olives. One of the handful of things I won't eat ;) That being said, pretty much everyone I know likes them.

    They're pretty common around here, even for stuff like pizza.
  • Gharley64
    Gharley64 Posts: 37 Member
    I hate those damn things....it's like eating little balls of stink.

    Seriously, who could put something in their mouth that smelled that bad??

    That being said, my wife and daughter love the damn things.
  • eieiomama
    eieiomama Posts: 11 Member
    No, but I'm a picky eater. :)

    Same here!!:tongue:

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