Olives - Love Them or Loathe Them?
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I personally love olives, black or green I like the bitter taste. But no one in my family likes them. I think they are like marmite.
Loathe them unfortunately. I want to like olives, but I've tried them several times and just don't like the taste.
My sister is the same, I love them with Feta cheese or on their own.As I've gotten older my taste buds have completely change and I now like bitter things, I even like grapefruit juice
I'm an olive lover. I like them on their own or in various dishes. I also like them stuffed with garlic, pimento or anchovies and marinated with lemon and herbs.
Horrid in my opinion, taste like unsweet, unripe, greasy grapes. But everyone has their own taste and I will always respect that.
love olives especially stuffed ones - with cream cheese, or even better jalapenos. The wife hates them which means I dont have to share.
I love olives, but no one else in the house does my husband bought me a massive jar from Lidl
I really like them. I usually buy them pitted to save time. They are also my favourite pizza topping.
I like the Spanish olives with pimento inside but not as keen on italian olives. I'd typically use them in a salad. It's pretty much like eating sea water though, very salty, you can't really taste much of the olives themselves. They definitely work well in a salad though. I don't like the one's in Home Bargains or Lidl's they seem very low quality to me with the olives having a softer more decomposed flesh which I think is more typical of Italian olives in jars. I should add I'm referring to olives in brine in jars. I haven't had much experience with other types. I think I had some from the chill counter from sainsburys sometime ago but don't remember them being much better.
I have an olive tree in my garden and desperately waiting for it to produce, my other fruit trees are doing well, funny how you eat what you grow even though your not keen.
Never have liked them, I do however keep trying them from time to time to see if one day I do but still not convinced of that.
All my life I have wanted to like them because they are so very good for you. I am a trained hypnotist and have studied NLP and Psychology. I have done just about anything and everything to render them acceptable. Changed size,texture,colour and still I deplore the things although I can hold one in my mouth for about 40 secs. As Kryptonite is to Superman as magnets are to Daleks so are olives to me. My mum eats em by the bucketload. Oleuropein is the pungent yerkiness that is to blame.Heard them referred to as balls of hell.
Very wrong lol. Even grapes are graded with me .Black seedless at top and sour green a can do but not nearly so enjoyable.I am more fussy than I had given credence to lol
Up until a few years ago I didn't like them but tried them at a local food festival. They were the size of small plums and they changed my opinion, forever. I'm still very picky about which ones I buy because many of them are just 'salty demon nuts'. That said, I've obviously moved over to the dark side because I also love a spoonful of capers.
I like capers, gherkins and jalapeno pepper. I like things which have a bit of a bite. However I don't like, cucumber or tomatoes unless they are dried
Love them, and eat them very often.Only I in my family eat them, other members dont like .
Love them but the only brand I buy which I love is fragata, it is Spanish and they sell in Waitrose and Tesco. The piquillo pepper ones are amazing.
There is something about Spanish olives that are better in my experience but I've never tried those so will have to give them a go.
BonzoBanana definitely to give them a go. Last time they were in offer in Waitrose and bought around 6 bottles.
It's a loathe from me, I've tried them and simply can't bear the consistency feeling in my mouth
Love love love em!
Half a jar in fridge right now .I tuck in almost every time I open the fridge . Irresistible!!
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