Why do green olives come in jars and black olives in cans?

Question

Green olives come in jars. You can open it, use a few and close it back. As long as you keep the jar refrigerated you have a lot of time to use them up.

Black olives come in cans. Once you open the can you are obligated to use them up or figure out some other storage container to use. It seems as long as they are refrigerated they keep fairly well.

Why can't black olives come in jars?

Answer 1

A staple of Mediterranean cuisines, olives are most often eaten out of hand, though cooks also use them to flavor everything from pizzas to martinis. Raw olives must be cured before they can be eaten, and the curing medium--usually lye, brine, or salt--affects their flavor and texture. So too does the olive's degree of ripeness when it's picked. Green olives are picked while unripe, which makes them denser and more bitter than brown or black olives, which stay on the tree until fully ripened. Olives become bitter if they're cooked too long, so always add them to hot dishes at the last minute. Opened cans or jars of olives should be refrigerated, but some olives can be stored at room temperature if they're submerged in brine or olive oil.

Answer 2

Because green olives are considered more of a delicacy and are more expensive to both process, store and harvest. Regular old Black olives are more common and canning is a less expensive more practical way of storing them for shelf life and sales.

Some do come in jar's. The expensive ones like calamata or the Greek, black, oil cured, olives come in jars too.

Green olives are also for bar use, makes more sense to store them in a jar rather than a can for bar use.

Answer 3

Green Olives, as you know are green in Color. Now due to the fact that the sellers want you too see how fresh the green Olives look, they are sold in Glass / Jars. On the other Hand black Olives are black in color and look black. One cant gauge their freshness by looking at their black color. So it is not necessary to have them in Jars. They are quite ok in Cans.

It is all manipulation of ones visual abilities.

Answer 4

Not all black olives come in cans---the really good ones are in glass jars

Answer 5

I think its because people use green olives in cooking more often than they use black ones. I always eat all of the black olives in the can when I open it.

Answer 6

here in Spain they are avaliable in jars or cans and even plastic packs.

Olives are for eating, why put them in the fridge.

Only buy a small park if you use them just for cooking.

Answer 7

thats a good question.... now im curious..thank you:)

Answer 8

so you don't confuse them

Answer 9

lol good ???? lol