I need to settle an argument I started. My argument: olives are gross.

I will die on this hill.

    • @Flummoxed
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      36 months ago

      Right? I am personally anti-many types of olives, but there is always someone happy to eat them. I’ve started friendships this way. I wish I liked them.

    • @[email protected]
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      This is the way. If OP doesn’t like olives, that just leaves more for the rest of us. It’s a win-win for everyone.

  • @Treczoks
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    346 months ago

    I will die on this hill.

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

    • @[email protected]
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      Also may make good bonemeal for an olive tree to grow there

      OP, your sacrifice means more olives

      • @TrickDacy
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        36 months ago

        The best take of the thread 😂

  • @kaffiene
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    246 months ago

    You’re entitled to your wrong opinion.

  • @HeyMrDeadMan
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    This might as well be heaven for me.

    • Tiefling IRL
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      I’ve learned that I don’t give a shit if a martini is shaken OR stirred. They’re all fucking disgusting. I love gin, but who the fuck thought super salty gin would taste good? The olive is the only good part of the whole thing.

      Except for espresso martinis, those are good.

      • @slurpinderpin
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        16 months ago

        I will fight you.

        Kidding, I know a lot of people that feel the same as you haha. And espresso martini’s are my fave

      • @MyDogLovesMe
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        We used to make “Whore’s Martinis”.

        Same as a regular one, you just hand pour over a single cube of ice and toss in an olive, onion, lemon, whatever. Stir with your finger and go. No straining, no stir stick, no measuring, one cube of ice.

  • @ccunning
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    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 🥴

    • @LaunchesKayaksOP
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      So you’re saying that I need to travel to where olives are made?

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        Or just to a middle eastern grocer.

        Also - Castelvetrano are the olives that non-olive people often like. The flavor is mild and buttery, not as sour as most but without the metallic edge the black olives have.

        • @LaunchesKayaksOP
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          76 months ago

          Thank you for the recommendations! I might see if the super fancy grocery store by my work has those olives. If they don’t, then I’ll try to find a middle eastern grocer. I don’t mind taking a minor road trip to find legit olives. I wanna know if I just don’t like the ones I’ve been exposed to.

      • Ada
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        Of course. Otherwise they’re just sparkling kalmatas…

    • @felixwhynot
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      I’m in a similar boat. Manzanilla olives are the only ones I like! Pit-in or bust.

    • @RozhkiNozhki
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      16 months ago

      Lindsay’s are good. But not as good as kalamata.

    • pink
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      You are supposed to fill the black ones with easy cheese.

  • @Usernameblankface
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    146 months ago

    I don’t like olives.

    But it doesn’t need to be an argument.

  • @[email protected]
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    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.