Green olives are specially packaged in fancy glass bottles while black olives come in regular tin cans. Why?

Question

Is this just another example of how the MAN keeps the black olive down and in its place? Black Panther Olive Power! The time has come.

Answer 1

LOL..hilarious.

But this is why- Olives don’t come to us in edible form straight from the tree. They have to be processed. Black and green olives (which can be the same olives—the color is how they end up, not necessarily how they grow) are processed differently. Green olives are for the most part intended to be eaten raw. They are cured not cooked. Canned black olives are literally cooked, like most anything else in a can. If you canned green olives, it would cook them, and that’s not what you want for a cured olive meant to be eaten raw. If you tried to cook black olives in jars (the processing is done in the actual vessel in which the olives are sold), you’d break a lot of jars.

Is that a good explanation?

Answer 2

That's odd, I've always seen black olives in glass jars just like the green ones.

However, one reason may be that black olives, when bunched together and in the brine, has a dark black color which makes seeing the olives difficult to see. So to save money the company may use cans instead considering you can't tell what's in the jar to begin with.

Answer 3

I don't know where you shop but at my store black olives also come in fancy glass bottles too!

Answer 4

Because black olives are so much more tasty that they didn't see a point in wasting money on packaging them in a fancy jar...they're not sitting around to look nice, they're for eating! ;)

Answer 5

Good question. I happen to love both kind though. I do like the black ones without the pits. . . .takes less time to eat than the one with the pits. I could eat a whole can of black ones but don't know if I could actually eat a whole jar of green ones (not at one time anyway). . . . hmmm making me hungry.

Answer 6

I think it is a conspiracy by the man. Why is the guy in the black hat the bad guy and the guy in the white hat the good guy? Why is it always black magic, and black monday??? And now we can add to this list black olives thanks to my overly-aware pizza line chef.

Answer 7

i would never think of this. thats really deep thinking. i think its because if the black olive were in glass you would not be able to see it for the dark colored liquid

Answer 8

i dont know why, i personally prefer the black olives and i think they look better

Answer 9

Because you shop in cheapo stores, go to proper stores & discover you're wrong. If you can afford it, that is.

Answer 10

because green olives cost more and are fancier~!