to wonder who on earth buys olives with the stones in and why?

[Fairylea]

I was pondering this in the supermarket earlier today.

I know black olives aren't everyone's cup of tea, fair enough but for those of you who do enjoy them as I do I can't understand the point of selling them with the stones intact when you can buy them pitted already for no difference in price.

So what do people do with the stones? Why do people buy them whole like that? I've had both types and can't taste any difference either.

My life is not complete unless I know the answer to this aibu.

I only get them by mistake. A bit like kidney beans in chilli sauce - why is the "chilli sauce" in such small writing. I'm sure nobody intends to buy them in chilli sauce.

I know right?! Whose job is it to stick stones in perfectly good olives?

Java - is that true, ha, ha! Wonder if Ralph sat round the dinner table that night entertaining everyone with the story of the strange lady at the Borough Market. Actually just found the BM by accident on my last trip to London. Had never heard of it but it's fantastic!

I want to know why olive oil is so nice but olives are so vile?

I remember being at Borough Market once and some weirdo eating 'used' olive stones from a plate while grinning stupidly at me. It was most uncomfortable for both parties, IMO.
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Lost a tooth on an unpitted olive. Since then always look for the pitted. M &S. Do lovely pitted olives in a jar in olive oil. I believe they are called Etna olives. Hope that is right. Need to get more as I am out of them and most stores seem to fill them with something or other or store them in brine. I love olives but also need every tooth in a gradually emptying mouth!

I buy olives with the stones in. They have more flavour and are less soggy.

but I buy stuffed olives as well sometimes so obviously no stones there.

I want Trills dish, DD1 and me have a bad pistachio habit.

I have a Portuguese two section olive dish, (bit like the picture) but it's only small. Ok for a few olives, but not 1/2 a bag of pistachios.

Probably the same people who use strawberries in a dessert and leave the green bits on or a prawn pasta dish and leave the heads/tails/shells on.

Because you can't pitt black olives, if you buy pitted black olives you are actually buying pitted green olives that have been coloured black.

I did not know that about the olives being dyed. With iron apparently, according to Google!

But black olives taste totally different to green ones, they are milder and sweeter because they are basically the same olives but riper) so how/why would they do that?

What a revelation sashs. No more black pitted black olives!

Elephants like your dish. It's really sweet.

I've swapped to ones with stones in in advice of Jamie Oliver but I keep forgetting - convinced I'm going to break a tooth one day.

I'm confused about the dye thing... I've got a jar of pitted black olives from tesco in the fridge and on the ingredients it clearly states "black olives". Surely if they dyed them it would have to say "green olives" and then the dye as an ingredient... I used to work in the food industry so I'm really surprised if they are always just dyed green ones. My mind is boggled !

www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/food--drink-olives-show-their-true-colours-1361349.html

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I never knew that either. But since I started buying black olives with the stone in I can't go back to any pitted olives. They just taste really bland.

Just don't get me started on grapes with seeds in! What is the point of that!

I prefer olives with stones in as they have so much more flavour than the pitted ones.

To me, the pitted one taste somehow 'artificial' as if they have hardly any real flavour.

In a restaurant, being served a bowl of pitted olives is very disappointing!

I buy the pitted green ones. However, I have yet to find black pitted olives I like / that don't taste rank - and so will only buy black olives with their stones in

The tooth thing is important - friend broke tooth on unpitted olive at a party and it spoiled our night! Also hate to see those spat-out ones sitting round a bowl,while everyone's still eating....yuk