Olives. Yay or nay?

[Simster]

This is Simster, this is:

"Oooh, lah-de-dah, look at me I've got a little olive on a stick floating about in my £10 half-a-mouthful cocktail, aren't I quite the HEIGHT of socialite sophistication ? Look, I've even got my little PINKIE pointing out at a jaunty angle"

*simper*

True story: When I was five I went to a friend's party. I started tucking into all the party food on the table (not that the kid's parents noticed) and by the time the party games outside ended for a food break, I has been sick from eating too much. Mum picked up to take me home, all rather embarrassed.



Anyway that's you now, that is.

 

[Bwian]

Salt content? Only if they have been pickled in brine shirley?

Have stuffed myself silly with Olives of various sorts over the years, it has already been mentioned but green olives with anchovies are perfick....

Mind you I didn't like them as a Child

A doctor at the hospital told me to avoid olives-in fact, he said eat no more but what do they know? I think olives have to sit in brine for a few weeks otherwise they'd be hard and inedible. Who cares-they taste great and black olives on pizza, now there's a healthy snack...

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Oh most definately yay, nothing like a nice plump juicy black Kalamata or two.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Oh most definately yay, nothing like a nice plump juicy black Kalamata or two.

Nothing?

What about a black grape, marinated in sick?

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Some people eat cheap cheddar and pineapple sticks or make a beeline for stale Cheese and Onion crisps (otherwise known as commoners/losers/the lowest denominator). Winners make their way towards the inviting bowl of olives.

 

[Driver8]

I love olives but not over keen on the stuffed ones. I've even converted my 18 yr old daughter.

Stuffed vine leaves are something else I would have hated 20 years ago but love them now.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Nothing?

What about a black grape, marinated in sick?

You havent lived man!, your namesake would have loved them, he was a REAL man lol.

 

[Commander]

Some people eat cheap cheddar and pineapple sticks or make a beeline for stale Cheese and Onion crisps (otherwise known as commoners/losers/the lowest denominator). Winners make their way towards the inviting bowl of olives.

Very true. I think we are talking about poor people, aren't we?

 

[Simster]

Very true. I think we are talking about poor people, aren't we?

Poor people and children, yes.

(Excellent summation, BoF and Commander)

 

[Icy Gull]

Having been so badly owned on this thread I reckon HKFC will be trying another little nibble at an olive tonight.

 

[Barnham Seagull]

One of my favourite foods.

Olives, allioli, bread and a cold beer = bliss

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

When I came to Spain someone told me if you don't like olives just eat 10, then you will.

I didn't, so I did, and now I do. But normal ones, not those jobbies with the bits in the middle.

In fact, time for a few with a rum and coke on the balcony now, methinks

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

There are hundreds and thousands of different types of olives ranging three all number of colours between black and green. Personally the wrinkled black ones remind me of cockroaches (my old cat used to think they were cockroaches and played with them as if they were alive) but the big green olives are gorgeous. U cant write them off without trying all of them.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Very true. I think we are talking about poor people, aren't we?

Yes. Definitely. Bitter at that.

 

[surrey jim]

Absolutely love them, olives and feta cheese


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[Cypriot-Seagull]

Seems like a lot of you like olives so....
Would anyone like to help me and the misses pick our olive trees! We've got 350 ish trees to pick.
Picking starting next week. Ideally want to have them all picked by end of the month. This is a genuine request so if anyone is in the Limassol area next week ( unlikey i know ) let me know to arrange.

 

[Surf's Up]

The key lies in the marinade!!

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

Seems like a lot of you like olives so....
Would anyone like to help me and the misses pick our olive trees! We've got 350 ish trees to pick.
Picking starting next week. Ideally want to have them all picked by end of the month. This is a genuine request so if anyone is in the Limassol area next week ( unlikey i know ) let me know to arrange.

Don't you have a co-operative to do that for you? Most people here don't pick their own olives, a couple of old boys come and do it sleeping in a barn for a few days, then they take them all down to the co-operative and bring back the money a few weeks later.

 

[Vegas Seagull]

Seems like a lot of you like olives so....
Would anyone like to help me and the misses pick our olive trees! We've got 350 ish trees to pick.
Picking starting next week. Ideally want to have them all picked by end of the month. This is a genuine request so if anyone is in the Limassol area next week ( unlikey i know ) let me know to arrange.

I'd better get a move on with mine then, just the 4 but the main one, just like our superstar is from Valencia...my first harvest, not many but going to give it a go...read that need to soak in brine changed daily for a week then leave in same brine for a month...sound right??

 

[Cypriot-Seagull]

Don't you have a co-operative to do that for you? Most people here don't pick their own olives, a couple of old boys come and do it sleeping in a barn for a few days, then they take them all down to the co-operative and bring back the money a few weeks later.

Yep we do have a similar system but because our land is located outside the local jurisdiction allowed for such services ( and is private land) we have to do it ourselves.
Besides its more fun especially with the right company.