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Awesome or The Devil's Bum Beads?
Just so I know who to put on [b][i]The List[/b][/i].
Awesome
Sick.
Good sick.
The bigger and greener the better.
Awesome, especially stuffed with garlic.
Fresh green ones, awesome.
Any olives in jars, devil's arse.
Green - yes
Black - yes
Purple - noooooooooo
Green olives stuffed with pimento peppers or a lump of garlic.
The food of the Gods.
Teh nomz!
Especially garlic or chilli stuffed.
Awesome as long as they are not from Ritchies poo pipe
Pik n Mix - Member
Awesome, especially stuffed with garlic.
Agreed
Sadly they're catching on with the plebs. Can't have that, so I go from bar to bar surreptitiously misting them with Fairy liquid.
Awesome but don't eat a whole pot to yourself whilst on nights.
Awesome, eat as many as you can in 3mins then down a snifter of Sambuca..
There is no better food, ok maybe majewel dates.. but then nah, olives win.
I always hated olives. Until Mrs Daz was pregnant and I got some weird craving for them. Loved them ever since.
Awesome, especially Kalamata olives
Awesome
Nobody on [b][i]The List [/b][/i] so far. May have to chance the question to Mushrooms.
Horrible things. Get them off my pizza!
Said teenage me. They are very much an adult taste. I love them now and can easily much an entire tub of the Aldi pesto ones.
Olives AND mushrooms? Now were talking
Bloody lovely 🙂
Olives, up until a year or so ago, hated them. Now really quite like, eat loads whilst in Gran Canaria a couple of months ago.
Mushrooms though, no no no no no!
Use to hate them now think they are awesome
They taste like rancid wheelie bin.
Apart from olive bread, for some reason I like olive bread.
Mushrooms? Ok in small quantities but there’s something sinister about fungi, the way they brood silently and unmoving in the woods.
Whatever you do, don't try one freshly picked off the tree.....
awesome in spain, here nowhere near as good.
hoping someone can point me in the direction of a good source of them here tbh, supermarket ones are rubbish, alright cooked on pizzas but otherwise a bit meh.
what do the spanish do different?
mushrooms get a thumbsup in my book!
take some olives add Jamón ibérico, chorizo, manchego, sourdough and some rocket. keep the shrooms.
Awesome, especially stuffed with garlic.
This. Or stuffed with chillis. With a chilled fino or manzanilla.
Olives, the Devils hemorrhoids and mushrooms are even worse.
Awesome. Best ones are the big green ones marinated in vinegar + pimentón (Spanish paprika).
awesome in spain, here nowhere near as good.
Erm. Don't we get Spanish/Greek olives here?. Or are they some weird Scottish grown ones?
Or is it a bit like the wine you loved around the Mediterranean and tastes manky back home? 🙂
Olives awesome
Mushrooms good but they're no jalapeno peppers
no idea, my knowledge of olives is limited to non existent, just know the supermarket tubs pale in comparison.tewit - Member
awesome in spain, here nowhere near as good.Erm. Don't we get Spanish/Greek olives here?. Or are they some weird Scottish grown ones?
Or is it a bit like the wine you loved around the Mediterranean and tastes manky back home?
ps maybe it's that the ones over there generally still have the seeds in or are cured differently? Dunno, just know I can eat them by the bucketload! 😆
Dunno, just know I can eat them by the bucketload!
Oh. Me too. 🙂
awesome in spain, here nowhere near as good.
My brother brought me some back from Portugal, the best I've ever had.
Amazing things, little balls of joy.
Pish, tiny balls of pish
There are dozens of olive varieties, we farm arbequina olives which are relatively small and sharp tasting. They are much loved around Cataluña but I find them too bitter. They do however make a nice peppery oil which is what ours are processed into. Prices are good this year as they are in short supply due to the dry spring. Our local supermarket sells olives in anchovy oil which are lovely.
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I was just saying to my grown up kid not two hours ago “I don’t think I could be friends with an adult that didn’t like olives”.
I think I’d live off them if I could. Bloody lovely things
I was once a non believer. I was told you need to eat 100 before you get it.
Trufax
Schemano ft swoon.
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But green definitely.
Black less so. Fine in things, but just not snackable on their own.
And fresh green olives in Spain are impressively better. Though is the faff of the stones in them.
Pure bum bead.
I keep trying them, on the off chance I’ve just been unlucky for the last 30 years.
Nope, still taste like oily frog testicles
Disgusting things. I'm convinced no one actually likes them, they just pretend to keep up appearances.
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bob_summers - MemberSadly they're catching on with the plebs. Can't have that, so I go from bar to bar surreptitiously misting them with Fairy liquid.
sbob appreciated this post. 🙂
Lovely things but crap ones sell they're just not great. Aldi were wiped out of them when I was in the other day, I dare not brave a visit today.
Use to hate them now think they are awesome
Same. Never understood how they went from something I disliked so much I would actually have to spit it out to something I love
The ones I have enjoyed most when eaten on their own as a snack are the [url= https://www.ocado.com/webshop/product/Unearthed-Nocellara-Olives/201374011?from=offer_details¶m=126765631&parentContainer=PROMO ]nocellara variety[/url], which I find have a creamy lemony flavour.
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Olives taste like this, in solid form
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Disgusting evil things!
Love em, but then I have my own olive grove here in Spain. Green, black and any combinations of them are just different levels of ripeness. Green olives are unripe black olives are ripened on the tree. Olives off the tree are the bitterest things in the world,they need brining to remove this and make them edible. Some of my trees are over five hundred years old.
About 34 secs into this is my opinion of olives and the people who eat them 😆
Contains swearing 😉