i was 17 and 2 weeks old when i consumed my first ever olive.

they always looked and smelled a bit ODDDD and such like had always put me off.
THENALLTHAT CHAnGED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

for the past 3 weeks, i havent been able to stop.

i think i have a problem!

i even WALK to the supermarket in my frees, in lunch, and on the way home, to purcahse them…..if you havent eaten one before, or in a while….DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *****urges****

tips: they taste soo much better in a sauce and with feta!!! :] :] :]

I once wrote an essay about how my relationship with my mother can be summed up by our sharing of black olives. We both want them, but she always lets me have the last one. It was hoaky. But the black olives are still delicious and silky and good.

yum yum

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.

I hate olives. Really, really, really, really hate them. I used to choose the longer, regular lines over the express lane at my old grocery store, because the latter was next to the olive bar and the smell, which I could smell up to about 7 feet away, makes me want to hurl. And I like olive oil – go figure!

Black olives have tannin in them – that is what turns them black. I read that can be good for your immune system.

They have a lot of fat in them too. So I tend to eat olives on days that I am not eating other fatty foods – just to keep everything in balance.

I bought these on one of those buy-lots-for-not-much sales at Giant grocery store a couple of weeks ago. So far I have just had one can. Need to work my way through the rest.