I just saw one more question about food you won't eat and, again, at least half of the answers are about olives. I've seen this SO many times, here!!
I love olives, as most people I know. In my lfe, I've met very few people who don't care much about olives, but never one that "hates" them. This last year, at YA, I've seen hundreds of people saying, in questions and answers, they "hate" olives, and won't eat them even if there's nothing else to eat.
Is there any explanation for that? Is this a cultural thing?
Thank you for your answer, and have a wonderful day! :)
2007-03-19 05:08:13 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
What you mean by "weird" is anything and anyone you don't really know, right?
2007-03-19 05:21:04 · update #1
Thank you to all who answered! :)
2007-03-22 21:45:13 · update #2
OLIVES are great, but unfortunately I was raised getting them out of a jar or a tin, and therefore have come to love the briney taste to packaged olives. Fresher deli olives almost have too strong a flavor, which maybe why the others shy away from them.
For instance when ordering a pizza in a group, most folks don't mind mushrooms terrible much because they are fairly tastless and just a chewy gummy texture, not so much flavor. However the nice change an olive choice brings to a pizza - is much more noticable. And I feel like I'm amongest cool people when they are okay with having olives on our communal pizza! (because some may not love them as you or I do, but don't object, which is very very cool of them)
Some folks who were brought up on jar/tin olives, may not like the for that reason. Maybe if they grew up somewhere that a relative had olive trees and incorporated them into the family cooking, they would grow up loving them.
So maybe it's exposure. Pepperoni and black olive pizza from the Hut was a family treat dinner, and that's where my love comes from.
Funny enough, peas were also a standard veggie dish, which I -from birth- have detested, no matter how much exposure I got.
Maybe there are things you are born to love...
Cool question! Thanks for asking!
2007-03-19 05:56:46 · answer #1 · answered by sagebella 5 · 5⤊ 1⤋
It has to be a taste thing. And hate is relative. I would almost bet you that those who state they hate olives have never been in the situation where olives were the only thng available to eat--literally. The will to survive will do away with a lot of things that we thought were written in stone.
I love olives. I know of one person who was allergice. The rest just didn't either like the taste or the texture.
2007-03-20 14:49:17 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Here is my take on this:
Many olives have a strong flavor and it takes an acquired taste to enjoy them.
I like Black Olives but only sparingly. I can remember as a child on holidays we always had olives out and I would put one on the end of each of my fingers and eat them one by one.
All other olives are too strong to me and taste a bit sour. I very much enjoy Mediterranean food and just not the olives.
:)
2007-03-19 13:37:45 · answer #3 · answered by Threeicys 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I love olives. Black, green, stuffed, in martinis soaked with gin. I even cook with olive oil all the time. If it looks like an olive, I'll eat it. They are very healthy too. Those people don't have any taste for fine foods obviously. I don't think it's a cultural thing.
2007-03-19 12:15:19 · answer #4 · answered by Eisbär 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love black olives and will eat green olives. I'm guessing that it's people who haven't tried them. However, I guess I could understand someone just not liking the taste or the fact that they are kind of salty. I have sympathy for those people because I can't stand watermelon.
2007-03-19 12:14:43 · answer #5 · answered by Purdey EP 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I absolutely LOVE Olives! All kinds of Olives! Yummy!
My younger sister wouldn't eat any olives when she was little because she thought they looked funny. I bet her $1.00 that if she tried one, she would like it. She ate the olive. I checked her mouth and it was gone. She didn't care for the olive at all, I thought she would have liked it.
In fact, she still bugs me for that dollar that I didn't pay her. tehetehe!!! Hey! It was about 18 years ago! It was for her own good.
2007-03-19 13:52:34 · answer #6 · answered by Fancy You 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was raised as a meat & potato eater in the midwest USA. We ate the pimento stuffed type of olives but NEVER those black ones. No one I knew liked them. I moved to the west coast & the people I hung out with ate black olives w/ everything so I got used to them and grew to LOVE them and seriously dislike the pimento stuffed ones now.
Maybe it is what you are raised with? Which would be a bit of culture thrown in?
2007-03-19 12:20:28 · answer #7 · answered by V 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I love olives , but I like the black ones better. I really don't know too many people who like them either to tell you the truth
2007-03-19 12:11:45 · answer #8 · answered by Urchin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it is cultural. My grandmother and mother love olives. My grandmother likes green and my mother loves black olives.
I can't stand them. I never really liked the taste, they just don't taste "right" to me, so I don't eat them. Ever.
But I like olive oil with some dishes. Just not olives. Perhaps it is the way people have been introduced to them, or their precedence in family?
2007-03-19 12:13:10 · answer #9 · answered by Chali 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I hate green olives b/c the red stuff in the middle is too salty for my taste buds.
As for black tasteless ones I like them but since they've never tasted like anything to me they don't excite me that much.
Plus I think the green ones have fat in them. As for black ones I don't know.
2007-03-19 12:31:16 · answer #10 · answered by missgigglebunny 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋