Olives - at least as you usually buy them, in brine, often with pepper strips in them - I find delicious. But every person has their own tastes, you can't argue with subjective preferences.
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I think olives are gross but I like them anyway. Only green olives though - black tastes bad.
Mostly I think they are gross, but once in a blue moon I'll have something with olives that have been prepared in a way where they actually taste pretty good. It's rare though
I was a bit of a picky eater when I was younger, but I've become much, much less so over the years - one of the few things I've never come around on is olives. The taste and texture combination just don't work for me
Love them. So much. Nearly every kind. One of the oldest cultivated foods. Die on your hill, or just realize that you have an uncultured palate!
Farther down you say you like pesto, which is like half olive oil. From olives.
Olive oil is fine. It's just olives themselves I don't like. Idk if I just don't have access to good olives or what. I've tried so goddamn hard to like them. I've tried so many. I just don't like them. I also live in a poverty-stricken part of the US, which may explain the lack of quality food around.
I like olives, but not all olives. There's some nasty olives out there.
Olives are pretty great. Like the green ones more than then darker ones.
Love them. Especially the green ines. Sometimes i oick up a jar as a mivie snack.
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Like them? I love them!!
Only on pizza
canned olives are disgusting. Real ones you get in the mediterranean are amazing. I also hate the green olives but LOVE kalamata olives
Black canned olives are a totally different beast to eg small green tart ones. I struggle to eat cold green olives by themselves sometimes. Black canned olives are salty beauts with the best texture of all time and I could eat fistfuls of them any time of day or night please
Olives are delicious.
Hate ‘em, but I’m ok with olive oil.
The great thing, for most people, about a food being gross is that you don't have to eat it. Is someone forcing you to eat olives? I mean, maybe you've just not tried fresh olives?
I know I've never had fresh olives. Nobody has forced me to eat them. My one friend and I argue (in a joke way) about things we have opposite opinions of lmao. We have different opinions on olives
I like black but not green or kalamata.
Olives are great, but I also like pickled baby corn, hearts of palm, pickled Okra... I think there is a certain heritage/genetic component to enjoying pickled foods. I have mostly Swedish and German ancestry, just about anything pickled, cured, salted or brined is the shit.
If you haven't tried them yet, oil cured olives are awesome. Kinda bitter, soft and chewy, with a real deep olive flavor. Don't eat to many at once or your shit will slip right past your anus. You've been warned.
I wasn't ready for your second last sentence, almost spat my lunch out.
Olives are great! Olive Gardens? Not so much.
I'm with you. They're gross.
I am a straight up menace when there's a jar of blue cheese olives around.
blue cheese olives ? gotta admit I never tried that combination
They're common for martinis, but you can find them premade in jars at the store usually in the pickled section. I like em by themselves
No, I do not like olives. I can enjoy them in some dishes, but those are few and far between.
I don't like em, but not to the level of gross. Pickles are gross for me, olives I can either move to the side or ignore as a mildly worse meal.
Not sure what kind they are, but Pearls Olives are great.
Dont like things like Greek olives.
Green olives are gross most of the time, but I dont mind them on a pizza with a bunch of other toppings.
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