People who don't like olives have weak souls. Literally spiritually frail.
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can you enjoy olives without tomatoes? didn't think so. another day another native american cultural victory.
Yes, easily. Those are two great tastes that taste great together but also great separately.
you know what we do with bougie deviationists around these parts 
it's not true
Repent and take your soul to the gym.
you didn't have marmarabirlik then. the greek export olives are ass
It's okay, olives are best as an ingredient in dishes
Even tapenade has other stuff in it
While I generally agree, this is leaving out eating olives straight from the jar
You eat the hell out of those olives my friend
I will! Fun fact! Olives are cat drugs! They contain the same psychoactive chemicals as catnip! My kitty really wanted some once so I looked up if they were safe to share and found out that's why she ess going wild for em. Theyre salty and sometimes have garlic in play tho, so be careful
I want to explore with olives in cooking but my partner despises them even more than I do 😔
Maybe one day when they are not home lol
I use them a lot when I make my traditional Puerto Rican dishes
Chop a couple up, toss 'em in some rice or beans, a little brine for good measure and my friend, you got something good to eat
One of the things that only I do at work cause im the best at is making brine for our marinated olives. Literal brine of course, red wine vinegar, some oranges chopped up into it, tarragon, oregano and rosemary and roasted garlic
Sounds tasty!
I would probably eat some of those with some nice bread
Not at the price we charge for it
Mmmm Green Olives in rice, so good
I dont always agree with you but thank you for speaking truth
That's my biggest fear. Sometimes I want to invent a time machine and go write all of Aristotle Plato's stuff a week before he did so people think I'm the smartest guy. Or go back to Ancient Rome and win all the battles. I just know that the moment I do those things, everyone is going to love me so much that I'm not going to be able to leave. They'll try to feed me olives off a large platter and then they'll laugh at me because I only like the oil. I can't just coast forever on eating rhino heads- they'll want me to eat something that should taste like a bean or a date but doesn't. It tastes weird.
Hey what complex or psychology do we have where we fantasize about going back in time to take credit for shit? I've never talked to anyone about this so maybe everyone does it i guess
It's bullshit. My teachers called me gifted but every time I invent something it was already invented centuries ago. I had a great idea for something called Greek Fire until the fucking Greeks invented it.
Bill & Ted just wanted to do better on their history final. Weird Al had a song where he went back in time to pay his phone bill on time. Time travel is a boon that is only granted to the unambitious. As for me, I want to bring CGI back to the 1950s so I can make stunningly advanced soap advertisements
I mean obviously i want to go back to when i was cpu mining bitcoin on the school computer lab pcs and tell myself it's not stupid and actually is cool but i don't think I'd have listened because I'm old
I'm George Stanley and let me introduce you to a little device called a Computronic Mathematical Machine
Computer for short, but don't let that fool you, these things can put up with some tall orders!
thinking that you are smarter than your parents, lateteen-early 20s disease? seems fairly parseable tbh. although mark twain wrote his yankee in king arthur court in the 50s, so it might be impressive technological progress over lifetime brain compression (if i only knew (x), then i would have made so much (money/power/lessened suffering), so in a way, regret?
decided to do vibe check:
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seems like regret/quarter-life crisis is likelier to be predictor than late teens i know everything vibe 
Okay but I do know everything, obviously
You too? I knew that
Luckily for any time travelling olive haters, ancient olives would probably taste a lot different. Olives aren't edible when you pick them off the tree because they have an incredibly bitter chemical called oleuropein. Ancient people soaked olives in salt water for months at a time to remove the oleuropein, but most modern olives are treated with lye because it only takes a day or so. You can buy salt cured olives and most people believe they taste a lot better
This is good to know, I will give salt cured olives a try
probably you would just learn to like olives because the alternative would have been starving to death. human beings are extremely adaptable organisms, that's like our whole evolutionary strategy as a species
You: "human beings are extremely adaptable organisms, that's like our whole evolutionary strategy as a species."
Me: "Mmmmmm dino nuggies again!"
We are not the same.
cw: I lied
JK I love variety. I understand picky eaters in theory, but I cannot even begin to empathize. They'll have to settle for my sympathy and confused tolerance
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i think sometimes about how they def fucked with olive oil
Took me a second to realize you meant "fucked" literally lol. But yeah, 100% that was the lubricant of choice I would think.
I assume that's what prompted Alexander eastward.
At least you got plenty of ouzo and dolmas
go fishing@get abducted by phoenicians@go fishing@get abducted by pirates@go fishing@get abducted by romans
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