You just made a list of many of the things I truly hate, food wise, lol. I guess sun-dried tomatoes are okay? 😅
I’m the exact opposite. Sun-dried tomatoes taste stale and plasticky to me. Everything else on the list is fantastico. Where would we be without capers in tartare sauce, or black olives on pizza?
Or green olives in an extra dirty martini?
Where would we be without black olives on pizza
We’d have pizza people actually wanted to eat!
Don’t get me wrong, if you want to keep more pizza for yourself, then olives are a great deterrent and that’s a legit strategy.
If you want to do a real case study, get only two pizzas and put olives on one, pineapple on the other, and just watch.
Have you ever had homegrown sundried cherry tomatoes? I think there’s a huge difference in flavor between good and bad tomatoes
Homegrown tomatoes of any type will beat the hell out of anything purchased at a store.
I feel like I could save this picture and show it to people next time they ask what foods I can’t stand.
Round here we call cornichons “sweet gherkins” and they’re pretty good
Also: At one point you put black olives on your fingertips for the last time and you didn’t know it.
Cornichons aren’t sweet, though. (Different kind of brine.)
I guess it’s pretty American to add a bunch of sugar to something lol
Yeah, I love sweet gherkins, and when there is an unlabeled dish of cornichons I get very upset at the surprise sour/bitter/black pepper flavors. Give me that DelMonte high fructose corn syrup sweet pickle!
Also the only food whose squeak can give cheese curds or calamari a run for their auditory money.
That day has not yet come.
Green olives. Preferably stuffed with garlic.
Artichoke hearts. Straight from the jar with a fork. Yum.
Pimento olives, chopped fine and mashed into cream cheese, spread on pumpernickel (bread, bagel, etc).
Capers can fuck off entirely.
I was with you until you disparaged against capers
Same. Capers are amazing. Still upvoted them though haha
Lol same
You both can have all of my capers, forever.
Fair deal
I casually snack on cornichons straight out of the jar, or else with ham and camembert on a French baguette. In that case I’ll slice them lengthwise just so they don’t roll off.
Pickles are definitely my favorite on that list. My favorite is probably zesty bread and butter, but I also love dill. Black olives are alright. Most pickled veg are pretty good. Pickled jalapenos are good, but I much prefer fresh ones.
Every one is an s tier food. I fucking love olives and pickles.
I think pickled onions count and should be here so I would say that but I also enjoy capers in the right setting.
Pickles are my favorite, especially dill spears. I’ve also enjoyed capers on top of grilled salmon with (I think) a beurre blanc sauce. Kalamata olives on pizza is really good too.
Pickled beets. They’re good until you forget you ate them
I love beets. And the ensuing staring into a toilet wondering if I should go see a doctor
Write “you ate beets” to a post-it and stick it on the mirror
Red pee? Red poop? Oh I ate beets.
Ah yes, that brief moment of cold panic where you sincerely contemplate being deathly ill but still able to do something about it… right before your memory kicks in.
I love all of these, but if I could only ever live with one it would be capers.
Pickles a close second. My FIL has an amazing recipe for tuna salad: three ripe avocado, three tins of tuna drained and pressed for minimum moisture, three teaspoon mayo and six small pickles finely chopped. (3 tsp mayo is about 1tbsp, but i wrote it like that so you can adjust to size needed 1:1:1:2)
Now I want to share a great caper recipe. This one is definitely greater than the sum of its parts and I didn’t think I liked sardines prior to this:
I use the oil from the sardines to make up part of the required olive oil
I love the stains! I have recipe pages that look like this and know it is the sign of a well loved recipe.
Yeah the recipe calls for 1/4 cup of oil so the page can be saturated :)
How much oil did you use to make the recipe?
From the tin and a splash more, so about 2 tbsp
Doritos
Ranch, Nacho?
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Make margaritas and empanadas with the Spanish olives.
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Make nachos with canned black olives, jalapeños and maybe add the artichoke hearts… maybe.
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Make chicken piccata with the capers. Yummm! I love capers! 🥰
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Snack on cornichons; put sliced pickles in a sandwich (DIY chik-fil-a sandwich)
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Put sauerkraut over kielbasa.
The sun-dried tomatoes and I do not get along but thanks for asking. Please throw them out.
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Castelventrano olives, pickled okra
i had olives stuffed with lemon rind recently and was hooked. Also enjoy olives stuffed with jalapeños.
I’ve only had it once but theres also pickled watermelon rind
