TO think there is no point to the black olive?

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They are the green peppers of the world. Totally pointless, always squishy.

Aibu?

Have a cocktail evening and put them out as canapés and watch people politely eat them but hate them.

Get yourself a jar of cheap black ones from Aldi and enjoy. They are the best.

I love kalamata olives. Can't stand the green little ones, can just about stomach the large ones.

Black olives are to die for. We've always got them in the fridge.

YABU

Every fule knos that kalamata olives are the daddy of the olive world. Green olives are so sad and tasteless in comparison.

Green peppers are of course the devil's poo.

A lot of black olives (including I suspect the cheap Lidl ones mentioned upthread) are green ones which have been coloured.

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

The fresh kalamata in a plastic pack from waitrose are the best by far.

YABVU, I love giant black olives, drizzled with posh olive oil and mixed with fresh feta cheese....mmmmmm

I'll swap you this for your black olives OP. And any gherkins in case you are getting rid of those too.

They're kalamata, I would call them "purple olives".

Black olives are especially yummy on pizza but also in a tomato-y sauce in my local Italian. I really wish I could recreate it at home as I am obsessed with all olives.

DH left olives out of my salad today and I'm quite cross about the lack of olive yumminess.

Sycamore - you need to try tuna mayo, gherkin and black olives in a wrap. DH had tuna & gherkin sandwiches in the Caribbean and introduced me to the yumminess. I made it better by adding black olives.

YAB totally U. Black olives are divine. It's the unripe green ones that are horrible.

I hate all olives, bitter little bastards.

But my boyfriend at university did once order a pizza from our local kebab shop that had a lone black olive on top. Or so he thought. Turned out to be a grape. A fucking grape. Balanced on top of a pizza.

We could only assume that the chef had once seen a picture and assumed it must be a grape, for there are no other small, round, black foods...

If it's the (lovely, oily, squishy) texture you dont like then turn them into tapenade. If it's the flavour then there's no hope for you.

The oily squish is half the pleasure. I don't like that hard texture some green olives can have.

I like balck olives, especially kalamata.

However, for some reason, pitted black olives seem drained of taste in a way that green olives are not

Pitted olives are the pits really.

yabu

Oogle. I'm going to have one of those. It sounds gorgeous!