Fantastic pasta sauce

[Gamplayerx]

from your neighborhood grocery store's olive bar

I don't think I've ever encountered such a thing.

Our Safeway and Super Fresh have them. The Schnucks in Memphis has them too.

All of our grocery stores do, except for Trader Joe's.

[Alice]

We don't have olive bars.  I've never even heard of them.

[Jessie]

Never heard of them, and don't care to.

[Gamplayerx]

If you had good olives, you might change your tune.

[nishi]

hampla, i seem to remember that jessie is ixnay on the olivesay

[Jessie]

Olives, much like coffee, are gross.

[Beefy]

I like olives, but any food left out open to the public for extended periods of time worries me.

[Gamplayerx]

Nah, they're in brine.  All publicness is thwarted.

[JJ]

This one time we went to a restaurant and were given olives in a small ceramic bowl as an appetizer. They were the most amazing olives ever. Super fruity tasting, not too salty, not too harsh, a nice light purple color.

I used to hate the idea of olives, but that was before I knew what they really could be. All I had ever had were disgusting green commercial olives and really bad black olives.

Eventually I had some real olives and all was good.

What's in a name?

[dazie]

I got what hinted at being really good olives a while back- big greek ones stuffed with bleu cheese.

OMG they were gross.  I was so disappointed.

Other than that though, I've never eaten an olive I didn't like- even the green ones with pimiento inside.  (my mom told me the red was bird tongues.  Best way EVER to get a kid to eat olives)

[JJ]

I got what hinted at being really good olives a while back- big greek ones stuffed with bleu cheese.

OMG they were gross.  I was so disappointed.

Other than that though, I've never eaten an olive I didn't like- even the green ones with pimiento inside.  (my mom told me the red was bird tongues.  Best way EVER to get a kid to eat olives)

There's a brand from california called Mezzetta. They make these almond stuffed green olives in white wine with lemon and herbs. So the jar has a lemon slice at the bottom, has basil and whatever else floating in it, and the olives each have a blanched almond in the middle. They are in.cred.i.ble. OMG I haven't thought about those for a while. They're soooooo effin' good. Try some if you can.

[dazie]

I got what hinted at being really good olives a while back- big greek ones stuffed with bleu cheese.

OMG they were gross.  I was so disappointed.

Other than that though, I've never eaten an olive I didn't like- even the green ones with pimiento inside.  (my mom told me the red was bird tongues.  Best way EVER to get a kid to eat olives)

There's a brand from california called Mezzetta. They make these almond stuffed green olives in white wine with lemon and herbs. So the jar has a lemon slice at the bottom, has basil and whatever else floating in it, and the olives each have a blanched almond in the middle. They are in.cred.i.ble. OMG I haven't thought about those for a while. They're soooooo effin' good. Try some if you can.

Have you tried the garlic stuffed ones from Santa Barbara Olive Co?  They're good too.  The jalapeno stuffed ones are fantastic sliced on pizza.

Damn.  Now I want olives.

[Alice]

I made the best dirty martini ever once.  I drained half the brine out of a jar of olives, filled it up with vodka and let them sit for awhile.  Made the dirty martini 3 weeks later unbelievably good.

[dazie]

ooo- that sounds really good.

Damn.  Now I want a martini too!