I cannot express in words the amazing difference between naturally grown organic black olives and canned black cocktail olives. I worked for a couple of years for an organic foods company and got to sample some of the world’s best naturally ripened Turkish black olives. Heaven!
Most canned olives are actually green olives that have been dyed with ferrous gluconate or similar additives (read the ingredients list on the can!), and they usually taste more of the can and salt than of actual olive.
Learning the difference organic growing and packing made to olives converted me to the real thing. There’s no going back now.