Ask Lemmy

I love olives. Olives are great.

I will die on this hill.

Then perish.

I will take all of your olives

I will die on this hill.

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

I like olives.

You're entitled to your wrong opinion.

This might as well be heaven for me.

I will die on this hill.

R.I.P.

Clearly not a martini drinker

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 🥴

I don't like olives.

But it doesn't need to be an argument.

I do not like olives.

Fuckin love em

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.

Olives are the best Change my mind

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

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

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

I'm a can and a half in.

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.

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

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.

You are wrong. You don't like them.

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

You are wrong. Olives are great.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Olives are gross as a food/garnish. Their oil, though, is not. I will put olive oil, Parmesan, and basil on literally anything, and it comes out delicious.

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

I like olives.

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.

I will never understand people calling your palate uncultured just because you don't like olives. I am with you on this one though, the taste just is not to my liking.

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

Agreed, and I hate how many olives they tend to put in something.