OLIVES...How Can You Tell?

[jmarie]

I posted this story in another thread to make a point, but I think it bears repeating! Hope you enjoy!
There was this little boy playing in the same room as his dad, who was watching TV. The dad was eating olives out of the jar. His son watched him intently for a minute and went over to his dad... The converstaion went something like this:
"Dad, what are you eating?"
" I am eating olives, son."
his son watched him for a moment longer and said:
"Dad, can I have an olive?"
"Sure, son!"
So his dad gave him an olive and the boy ate it.
A few minutes later, the boy asked his dad again.
"Dad, can I have another one?"
"Sure, son!"
And his dad reached into the jar and gave him another olive.
A few minutes later, the son asked again....
"Dad, can I have one more?"
To which the dad, lovingly gave him another. When the boy put the olive in his mouth, he started crying...wailing uncontrollably.
His dad, startled, asked his son...
"What's wrong son?????What is the matter with you?"
His son woefully looked up at him and tearfully said....
"You're getting all the good ones!"

[funnybone]

LOL http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/smile.gif

[Laura B]

Maybe it is my state of stupor as I prepare to pull an all-nighter writing a paper, but I don't get it. Perhaps because I don't eat olives. Can someone explain?

[Liz K]

I think the point is that the little boy doesn't understand why his olives taste so bad, since the dad is surely enjoying the ones he's eating.

Just my guess.

[jmarie]

Laura...maybe sometime you should eat an olive....it is an acquired taste, me thinks! then perhaps you will understand...HA! first time I ate was the green stuffed one.....oh my gosh...gagged that baby down...love 'em now!

[sneezles]

Alas,Liz, I think you may have it! How many children love the olive? Surely they must think that the "adult" has pulled something on them...I think I was truly an exception to the rule-I loved to put ripe olives on my 10 fingers and the eat them one by one (I was 5 at the time)! I would do it now except those in my family don't find it amusing!

[chefbec]

Sneezles, my 7 year old son does that all the time!! He loves olives! I do, too. But I prefer black olives to green.

[sneezles]

Chefbec,
Glad to hear it is not a dying art form! Doesn't matter to me what color the olive just put it on a finger and I'll eat it! Even those that don't go on the finger are good to eat! Thank goodness they aren't a carbohydrate!

[Laura B]

Thanks for explaining! Will put olive tasting on my to do list. http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/smile.gif

[BarbaraL]

Cute thread! Both my brother and I loved the "condiment" dish as kids -- pickles and olives. Except I also loved the cocktail onions -- my family thought there was something wrong with me. To this day, my one cousin still brings up that I was the kid who loved the cocktail onions.

[hlao23]

Laura,

Make sure you don't limit trying olives to just eating them by themselves. I don't like green olives at all that way but I love them on pizza. My favorite is a bagel with cream cheese and sliced olives. Yum!

IMHO Kalamatas are the way to go if you just want to eat plain olives. http://www.cookinglight.com/bbs/smile.gif

[BosunsWife]

I always ate my olives off my digits when I was a kid. Just started giving DD olives and that is the way I have taught her to eat them - she loves it. My DH doesn't like olives and looks at both of us like we are rather strange!

[MrsReber]

I love 'em all- black, green, kalmatta, oil cured. Yum!!! My husband thinks some of them are weird. That's fine- just means more for me!

[schuh]

I remember fighting with my brother over the black olives on the "relish tray" when I was young. I recently acquired a taste for other olives, particularly Kalamata. One of my sons likes black olives. They both love pickles (another relish tray classic).

[Luiza]

I was thinking of this thread last night, when I couldn't stop eating these amazing green olives. This winter we came back from Greece with 8L of green olives from the fields of an uncle of my SO, alongside our customary Kalamata olives from another uncle. Since I was convinced that I don't like green olives at all, I was making lists of people to which to give them as gifts. And here I am, eating them like candy. LOL.

Luiza

[Gail]

Interesting. I've never met a kid who didn't like olives, which I always assumed was due to the olive-on-the-finger thing. My kid, for example, likes to sing "Olivefinger" while he scarfs his up.

But, on the other hand, I had a friend whose dog HATED olives and would never eat anything containing them. One night they ordered a pizza and apparently went to bed without wrapping up the remainder. They awoke to an odd little trail of black things across their carpet, marking a path from the dog's bed to where the pizza had been. The dog, it seems, had devoured the leftovers, systematically spitting out the olives as she made her way to bed!

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[lindrusso]

Originally posted by Gail:
The dog, it seems, had devoured the leftovers, systematically spitting out the olives as she made her way to bed!

How do dogs do that??? It always amazed me as a kid that my dogs could absolutely wolf down their dinners at break-neck speed and still manage to avoid the heartworm pill!!! And then there's my moms dog now who can eat blueberry pancakes leaving the blueberries behind!!



[This message has been edited by lindrusso (edited 04-20-2001).]

[schuh]

And then there's my dog, who must be part goat. She eats things wrappers and all (such as an entire bag of Hall's cough drops), non-food things (a tube of Desitin), and food parts I thought were inedible (corn cobs). The only things she spits out are onions and lemons.

[Curleytop]

Never ate olives until I was married! My dh was used to calamata, which his father bought in a Greek store, and he pickled himself. We now buy the stuffed olives in Costco and the calamata as well. Our sons also love both varieties and buy them. I keep some of the black regular olives around to put in Mexican food. We always put olives in our salads or as a side dish! I am amazed at all the negative reviews! I only use olive oil in my cooking, the virgin for sauteing and the light for baking. Lot of good stuff in olives!!!

[mb]

i didn't start eating olives until a few years ago... growing up, i always heard my mom saying 'yuck' about anything with olives, so as a kid, i just assumed they were bad and i wouldn't really eat them either. (see how parents can influence their kids?!?) but somewhere along the line, i just started eating them - a little salty at first, but definitely tasty. now my DH and i eat all kinds of olives in all kinds of dishes. but my mom still won't touch them!

[jmarie]

I think it is amazing the influence our DH's can have on us...Not only olives, but I never ate mushrooms or asparagus until I married...He loved these things...now I do too! But not until recent years...long enough that my children go bleeeeck at a lot of foods...I ruined them (my kikd...not the foods)...although they do eat squirrel gravy....not me...no way!