To wonder how anyone can like olives?

[Wildlady]

I hate them.

I agree that they are an acquired taste. They make even the driest, sourest wines taste good.

I wonder how anyone can like parsnips.

Easily, they're delicious.

Used to hate them but last 5 years or so they're something I eat, or try to eat, at least once a week. Not the fancier stuffed ones, just green ones with olive oil and feta.

Wanting them now

They literally give me the boke

Went to a freinds house for dinner last night and she gave me them, I ate them to be polite.

You are politer than me, OP.

Being held down with my nose pinched and a funnel in my mouth could not worry one down me.

They literally give me the boke

The dry boak or the wet boak?

I used to hate olives, certainly in my teens and early twenties, then with travel and eating out, I started having a nibble now again, just to remind myself how horrible they were.
Then I went through a phase of thinking they were curious, interesting. I liked the saltiness, hated the bitterness, but kept trying.

Now I adore olives, all kinds, green, stuffed, kalamata, love em all.

I'm not crazy about big, pappy green ones. I'll eat them, but much prefer plain, tiny black ones. Not stuffed, but a piece of crumbled feta alongside is nice.

Green queen olives and a chilled glass of white - or an anchovy and black olive pizza. Perfection, IMO. Can't stand Marmite though.

Love salty green olives, hate the black ones though.

people who like marmite also like olives

Hate marmite; love olives.

Love olives AND marmite

Love olives hate marmite

I hated them as a child but acquired the taste for them in adulthood.

My favourites are the big green juicy ones stuffed with either a garlic clove each or a strip of anchovy.

I also love marmite and many blue cheeses. My DDs consider me weird.

Olives, much like sausages, haggis, smoked salmon and a lot of things are firstly an acquired taste, but secondly depend a lot on quality.

I really like the black ones, but the green ones taste nasty.

I love them so much. As does my 2 year old.

Love olives can't bear the thought of biting into an egg.

Well, if anyone's eating the ones from a jar, then I'd agree. Devil's spawn.

But fresh?! With pesto? Or lemon and coriander? Wonderful.

I used to. I used to call them devil food. I quite like them now. I think as I've got older the taste and sourness appeals to me and was actually looking for recipes with olives in the other day.

I love them, but I think Jam is nasty, devil's red sticky shit.

Ugh YADNBU. They are truly grim. Wouldn't eat them if I was paid to

They are lovely but only the whole ones the pitted are grim.

They are delicious. But I do think they are an adult taste. I used to love sweet stuff, now I can't be bothered with it. But savoury things like olives, marmite, pickles, preserved lemons - can't get enough of them.

@Suburban Rhonda pimento cheese is a white hard cheese with little bits of chilli in it. Delicious.