Okay LLV, we might have a little difference of opinion here for once.
I LOVE, simply LOVE black pitted olives. I can't stand any other kind. Not the greek or kalamata or any others. ALthough I love them, if I recall, they're about 9 calories a piece - so I've stopped eating them . In the old days, all I needed was some cut up romaine lettuce and some sliced olives (a alot of them, that was the problem) and that was a great salad for me. Add in some feta cheese and some sliced red onion and then it was an exceptional, EXCEPTIONAL salad.
I like all kinds of olives, the greek ones, the green ones etc... it's been a while but I used to indulge in the olives that are stuffed with bleu cheese or whole roasted garlic cloves.
I only really like Kalamata olives....my 9 month old baby likes them too, he stole one off my plate and was trying to eat it (ACK choking hazard!!!!) and screamed bloody murder when I took it away. I tore it into pieces and he devoured it. Salt fiend!!
I hate green ones
Regular black olives are ok on certain foods like pizza or some mexican food but not much else.
I love olives! The kalamata, greek, nicoise, or other strongly flavored black ones are my favorites. The pitted canned black kind are ok. I've come across some green olives that I like, but for the most part I don't care for them much.
I like to put them in salads, in pasta, on pizza, have a few on the side with falafel, on sandwiches. Such wonderful flavor, mmmm...
I hate bloody marys. I don't like tomato juice, celery or pickles. Guess that leaves the vodka and olive. Better stick to martinis then.
Okay LLV, we might have a little difference of opinion here for once.
I LOVE, simply LOVE black pitted olives. I can't stand any other kind. Not the greek or kalamata or any others. ALthough I love them, if I recall, they're about 9 calories a piece - so I've stopped eating them . In the old days, all I needed was some cut up romaine lettuce and some sliced olives (a alot of them, that was the problem) and that was a great salad for me. Add in some feta cheese and some sliced red onion and then it was an exceptional, EXCEPTIONAL salad.
Haha, not so fast, Robin! My favorite olives are the black ones. I don't like greek olives, either. Every now and then I'll eat a green olive. I recently bought these FANTASTIC big huge green olives that are stuffed with a whole garlic clove and they're very yummy. But the spanish olives I'm not too crazy about because they're so salty.
I love greek salads, though, with the "average" black olives, red onion and feta cheese
This Week's Healthiest Food - Olives
. In the old days, all I needed was some cut up romaine lettuce and some sliced olives (a alot of them, that was the problem) and that was a great salad for me. Add in some feta cheese and some sliced red onion and then it was an exceptional, EXCEPTIONAL salad.
... Never heard of them in a Bloody Mary though sounds like I'd like that 
