Sometimes the higher-ups in our office cater lunch meetings, and if we are fortunate enough there are leftovers in the kitchen.
Today, the timing was right — the food was in the kitchen before I started heating up the frozen meal I brought for lunch. And, it was leftover pizza from my favorite local place.
The problem? It was swimming with olives.
I don’t know what it is about olives, but I simply cannot eat them. I eat around them in salads. Whenever possible, I remove them from my plate. When cooking frozen veggie pizzas, I scrape them off prior to popping them in the oven. I can detect even the tiniest bit of one that may slip through.
There were so many olives on that pizza that it’s still haunting me (and I didn’t even take a slice and attempt to de-olive it)!
Would I like an olive that’s been soaking up vodka in a martini?
Probably not. But, this hasn’t been tested. I don’t drink “real” martinis — too strong for my taste — but give me a girly flavored one any day!
Olives don’t complement them, anyway.
You should save the olives for people that love them like me. I’m probably too much of an olive lover. I like all kinds especially the calamata olives. I think there is something wrong with me. Why would anyone crave olives. Back to you, go ahead and pick them off what ever your eating, we all have our little quirks! Good for you for trying to eat the pizza with the olives on!
I remember going to a pizza place when I was a kid. Dad told me the little black things were grapes. I was nearly ill when I tried it and didn’t touch olives for years! Then I visited Turkey, and breakfast was olives and bread. Plus and egg and a bit of honey for the bread. So I learned to eat olives, and somewhere along the way I learned to love them! I don’t crave them, but I do enjoy them when I eat them 🙂 But I hear you! If you don’t like them, they are perfectly horrid!