Black olives matter

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ultimatebob

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I should organize a "peace summit" of black olives, green olives, and red olives in my salad tonight!

I have a dream!
 

DigDog

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yeah but
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they need to be wilted;
water-soaked black olives (like you get in a jar, or sliced on your pizza) are useless.

protip - most middle-easter food shops (turkish, pakistani, arab) will have them, loose.
 

lxskllr

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they need to be wilted;
water-soaked black olives (like you get in a jar, or sliced on your pizza) are useless.

protip - most middle-easter food shops (turkish, pakistani, arab) will have them, loose.

Why do they need to be wilted? They're delicious straight from the can.
 

Mayne

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I buy jars of the green olives but my nephews eat them all before I can get one in me. such bullshit.
 

DigDog

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Why do they need to be wilted? They're delicious straight from the can.

oh boi.

if you think the ones out of a can are good, you are in for a treat. i urge you to try the wilted ones asap, think same goodness x10.
 

lxskllr

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oh boi.

if you think the ones out of a can are good, you are in for a treat. i urge you to try the wilted ones asap, think same goodness x10.

I'm up for it. Is that something you buy(called wilted olives?), or do you make them? A search on "wilted olives" isn't being helpful.
 

Newell Steamer

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Black olive matter if you have no respect for your palate.

Black olives are shit.

Volos olives are where it's at.
 

MongGrel

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:whiste:

The wife likes beets, never been my thing I guess.
 
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DigDog

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I'm up for it. Is that something you buy(called wilted olives?), or do you make them? A search on "wilted olives" isn't being helpful.

if you buy black olives loose, from a middle eastern (or greek) store, they will all be like that - it's typical of those olives. the reason why the jar ones aren't wilted is that they are brined before they are ready to eat.
 
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yeah but
olives_antipasti_olives_beldi1.jpg

they need to be wilted;
water-soaked black olives (like you get in a jar, or sliced on your pizza) are useless.

protip - most middle-easter food shops (turkish, pakistani, arab) will have them, loose.
Those are salt cured olives. As mentioned already, most olives are brined, or treated with lye, and then fermented.
 

WaTaGuMp

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May 10, 2001
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Sharpton will be very upset if he reads this. It seems white people are killing the black olives.
 

zinfamous

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Those are salt cured olives. As mentioned already, most olives are brined, or treated with lye, and then fermented.

this. salt-cured aren't the only type of "real" black olives (as if the canned wet and bland ones are simply the cheap version of the same thing).

No one should be eating canned black olives. Plenty of properly brined black olives out there, and they are delicious.