Almond stuffed Queen Olives
 

I am not a foodie. I didn't even know what the best fucking cookware on earth was--cephalon? I can't remember...anyway, there is one kinda snooty thing I really like and that is Almond-stuffed Queen Olives which, incidentally, go nicely with your martini. After you have almond-stuffed you'll never go back to pimento*


*Unless you're allergic to nuts. Duh.

I'd agree with you--if olives weren't the work of Satan. :angry: :vomit:

i thought olives were the fruit of Jesus hisself!

Er... if wine is the blood of Christ... and little waxy crackers are the body of Christ... what exactly are olives again?

The boogers of Christ?

Oooo i wonder if Christ had belly button lint?

Hmmm something to ponder.....

Per the Nuns who taught me my Cathecism: Christ did NOT have belly-button lint (and how dare you!) and olives are the...well, they're the delight of...of, of Christs martini! I dare you to say different.

Christ drank martinis???
Wow!
I still say olives are the root of all evil, as well as the boogers of Christ.
As for the belly button lint, after researching i have discoverd that Catholicism teaches that the belly button lint of Christ is better than 900 thread count sheets!

you infidel! of course Christ drank martini's! How do you think he got the Italian vote? Get with it, newman. I've a headache...all these un-believers tire me...

Try garlic stuffed olives....! hic. hic.

hmmm... almond stuffed olives.. toasted? have you ever tried bleu cheese stuffed olives (yeah.. doesn't really go with a martini...BUT while drinking one the creamy tangy goodness would be a welcome addition.. especially a very dirty martini...)

oh how I wish I could stomach Gin!

howver...it is the devils urine!
maybe there has been some revisionist history going on here?


on a side note though.. for those of 'us' who prefer a darker liquor.. have you ever tried either an 'old grandad' (75% buorbon 25% amaretto w/ a marachino cherry) or a 'godfather' (same drink except with scotch)? mmmmm... not good with olives... but all your liquor in one smooooooth drink

i love olives... i had olives stuffed with almonds, olives stuffed with other olives, olives stuffed with feta are really good...

If you're going to eat olives... bring some mints - they give you the worst breath.

I'm sad that so many people hate them... they are so lovely.

I dump sliced olives and mushrooms in just about every meal I make.

For some reason I like the canned black olives more than just about any of the fancy ones in the olive bar at Fresh Fields. I guess I'm not a gourmand.

Olives are great, anyway you stuff 'em!!!!!!!!1

Olives are the BEST

...for throwing at other people!

I prefer those little plastic buckets of creamer you get at restaurants. They are much better projectiles. You can also build things with them, if you can convince the wait staff to bring you enough of them.

If the only foods left on the face of the earth were olives and mushrooms, I would be eating grass and dirt.

Ditto! Well Said Wolf.

I am personally shocked at the hatred pointed at the meek and worthy Olive.

M . for shame!

This is true. However, olives seem to have more of a gross-out factor. They go squish or splat or at least leave a footprint of olive juiciness on the victim. Bonus points if it falls into someone's shirt. Double bonus if the shirt is inhabited by a female.

We could talk about the ballistic value of the cherry tomato, but this is the Olive thread. :D

I used to hate mushrooms but then I visited the mushroom museum in Kennett Sq. and had an epiphany (actually, I was starving to damn death and they had some complimentary marinated mushrooms). I love them now. However, I would much rather suffer a slow, painful death from starvation than eat an olive of any kind.

I was once told, or read, that the red things that you might call "pimentos" that you see in olives... are not really fit for human consumption.

I think they were once pimientos which were a kind of pepper, and now they are something else entirely, with little specks of pimiento pepper and red food coloring.

Sorta like crab being fake crab a lot of the time, actually being some stupid fish with crab flavoring and coloring.

But this is as unclear on the facts as I can be.

Questions to the olive-haters in the crowd: Which type of olives turned you off to them? The canned ones that are basically salt with a touch of olive flavoring? Real olives (fresh, with pits and such)? If they were real olives, were they green or black? And who made them for you, an Italian, a Greek ar a Middle-Easterner, because the different seasonings and marinades definitely effect the flavor a lot. I personally prefer them fresh, right off of the tree, and I like the black better than the green. Canned are better for cooking, though, because the taste isn't so over-powering.

Warning: tasteless olive humor coming up. Scroll past quickly to avoid




















































I like my olives as I like my men: Young, black, and hanging in the trees.














































End tasteless humor zone. It is now safe for the young, the weak, the sick, and the liberals to read on.

There's an easy answer to that: I've never met an olive I did like. Canned, fresh, whole, pimentoed, cooked, raw, black, green...I dislike them all equally. No discrimination here.

Only bad olive I've ever had was Anchovy stuffed, yuk. I make great hot Italian olives

I'm amazed at the number of people who hate olives here.

I'm not terribly fond of the typical green spanish olive, but one of the tastiest foods on Earth is the Kalamata olive, a delicious black Greek olive. I could eat an entire jar of them in one sitting. If all you have had are canned black or green olives, I can understand your opinions, but try a Kalamata olive before you swear off olives for good.

There are a LOT of different kinds of olives out there. The typical olive you remember from your american childhood is just about the worst.

I had a friend give me a jar of Crying Tongue olives a couple years back. The "Tongue" part is an extra long red pepper that is stuffed into the olive, and they really do look like they are sticking their tongues out at you. The peppers are also among the hottest in the world, which is where the "Crying" comes in.

It sits, unopened, in my kitchen cabinet.

Wolf, send to me. They cost about 3 bucks for a small here. When you can find them. Boy they'er hot. Sometimes known as Fire tongue.

There's an easy answer to that: I've never met an olive I did like. Canned, fresh, whole, pimentoed, cooked, raw, black, green...I dislike them all equally. No discrimination here.

Ditto. But I don't mind Extra Virgin Olive Oil.

Oil-cured olives are really nice... they are slightly dry and a bit sweeter. They are to die for on pizza.

I tend to like only black olives and Kalamata olives... not a big fan of the green ones, but i'll eat them if necessary.

My husband (I'm going to just start calling him Arimoose to save keystrokes) buys jars of Goya manzanita olives and a jar of hot little yellow papers. He drains some of the olive juice out and cuts up half the yellow peppers, puts em in the jar with the olives and 2 tablespoons of crushed garlic (about 2 cloves worth) and lets them blend.

I love me some olive.
I SAID I LOVE ME SOME OLIVE.
The only thing I love more than some olive, is my little woman.
Wrote a song about it...

Quid pro quo for the tasteless humor, AlphaG:
If virgin olive oil comes from ugly olives, where does EXTRA virgin olive oil come from?







Fat and ugly olives.

(two can play at that game...)

I like anchovy-stuffed olives.

I eat alone. :cool:

Hey I could give that a try! Sounds great to me. :thumbsup: