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so why do people ask for “black olives”…do they think that there are green olives hidden out back that they will put on their sub if they don’t ask for “black olives”? Just ask for “Olives”! —Easily annoyed
This article appears in Jun 24-30, 2010.
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some people have a need to make themselves feel better by making other feel like they’re stupid. service staff is usually the unwilling recipient of this type of arrogance.
so when people specify what they want when there is only one choice. i would see the need to say black olives if you have black, green. pimento and half a dozen other kinds. but when it’s all you got, there is no reason to specify. stop dumbing down service staff.
Green olives – black olives – they still taste like fucking ass boogies.
If the olives are black, they are called black olives. It says so on the frickin’ packaging they come in. Bitch about something worth bitching about. You’re cranky over nothing.
Is this a serious bitch? Wow. Lol. I always say “black olives” because they’re, surprise, “black olives”. I don’t say it to be specific and I don’t say it to be demeaning, so maybe you OP should lighten the fuck up. This is the dumbest bitch I’ve ever heard on here, I think.
But thanks for letting us know how much it irritates you.
Because I like Black Olives more than Green ones.
I like green ones only when they have the pimento in them…I think they look like sheep eyes & enjoy eating them that much more because of that.
I’ve asked for olives, and I’ve gotten green olives as opposed to black. I like black, not green, so now I have to differentiate when I can’t see the option. Now if it’s at Subway, I can see that they only have black, I don’t bother.
Could be worse, at Greek restaurants I ask for Kalamata, and nothing else. Mmm… Kalamata olives dripping in olive oil.
… because they are black olives. Who cares? If this is the biggest problem in your life right now, you have it too easy. Extra BLACK olives in my sub, please.
your world is some small to notice something as insignificant as this bitch.
Even better: kalamata olive tapanade (smushed olives with enough garlic to burnburnburn all the way down). Mm mm.
BD— that sounds tasty. I’ve gotta try that. I’d probably smell of garlic for the next few days, but given my Russian heritage, I’m genetically predisposed to smelling of Borscht anyways.
You can do it with black olives, too. Maybe green, I’ve never tried them. Here’s the recipe: 3 parts olives to 1 part walnuts or pine nuts, 4-6 cloves of garlic (or to taste), 1 tablespoon lemon juice, 1 teaspoon dried basil. Zap in food processor until it reaches the desired consistency. Tastes best the next day on fresh French bread. Nom nom nom.
because o.p., people in general, are fucking stupid.
I’ve never heard green olives referred to as “green olives” — When I think of “olives” I think of olives of the green variety. Black olives are a distinction because when people say “olives” they think of the green fuckers.
TTFN’s right though: all olives taste like assboogers. I’m pretty easy going with pizza toppings, even given the fact that peppers make my stomach die (I’ll pick them off if I have to), but olives? I draw the fucking line at olives.
Olives….just give them red grapes next time they ask and say they’re organic.
When I ask for Green peppers should i just say Peppers?
Bitch FAIL
lukin, if you don’t pronounce the ‘S’ enough, you’ll be getting the dusting variety…
or doctor pepper, that shite is gross