Pickled beets. They're good until you forget you ate them
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I love beets. And the ensuing staring into a toilet wondering if I should go see a doctor
Write "you ate beets" to a post-it and stick it on the mirror
Ah yes, that brief moment of cold panic where you sincerely contemplate being deathly ill but still able to do something about it... right before your memory kicks in.
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Artichoke hearts. Straight from the jar with a fork. Yum.
Pimento olives, chopped fine and mashed into cream cheese, spread on pumpernickel (bread, bagel, etc).
Capers can fuck off entirely.
I was with you until you disparaged against capers
Same. Capers are amazing. Still upvoted them though haha
You just made a list of many of the things I truly hate, food wise, lol. I guess sun-dried tomatoes are okay? 😅
I'm the exact opposite. Sun-dried tomatoes taste stale and plasticky to me. Everything else on the list is fantastico. Where would we be without capers in tartare sauce, or black olives on pizza?
Or green olives in an extra dirty martini?
Where would we be without black olives on pizza
We'd have pizza people actually wanted to eat!
Don't get me wrong, if you want to keep more pizza for yourself, then olives are a great deterrent and that's a legit strategy.
If you want to do a real case study, get only two pizzas and put olives on one, pineapple on the other, and just watch.
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Green olives. Preferably stuffed with garlic.
Pickles are my favorite, especially dill spears. I've also enjoyed capers on top of grilled salmon with (I think) a beurre blanc sauce. Kalamata olives on pizza is really good too.
Round here we call cornichons “sweet gherkins” and they’re pretty good
Also: At one point you put black olives on your fingertips for the last time and you didn’t know it.
Cornichons aren't sweet, though. (Different kind of brine.)
I guess it’s pretty American to add a bunch of sugar to something lol
Yeah, I love sweet gherkins, and when there is an unlabeled dish of cornichons I get very upset at the surprise sour/bitter/black pepper flavors. Give me that DelMonte high fructose corn syrup sweet pickle!
Also the only food whose squeak can give cheese curds or calamari a run for their auditory money.
That day has not yet come.
Every one is an s tier food. I fucking love olives and pickles.
I casually snack on cornichons straight out of the jar, or else with ham and camembert on a French baguette. In that case I'll slice them lengthwise just so they don't roll off.
I think pickled onions count and should be here so I would say that but I also enjoy capers in the right setting.
Pickles are definitely my favorite on that list. My favorite is probably zesty bread and butter, but I also love dill. Black olives are alright. Most pickled veg are pretty good. Pickled jalapenos are good, but I much prefer fresh ones.
Marinated sun-dried tomatoes & garlic. I could eat that forever.
Pickled asparagus and pepperoncinis.
Salt-fermented pickles. Mmmmm.
But really, I love all this stuff.
I make my own kimchi, sauerkraut, and various Chinese fermented vegetables.
I make what I call a "dirty margarita." Jalapeño stuffed olives are a must.
In a salad, kalamata or dried black olives.
Canned black olives are the only olives I really enjoy, but I haven't had a green olive since I was a kid and now I am not sure if the olive was gross or if it was just the pimento I hated.
But dill pickles (gherkins) are a top tier snack and condiment.
The pimento doesn't really have all that much flavor, espec next to the olive. You should definitely try some green olives again, it is one of this things that it's not uncommon to dislike as a child and later acquire a taste for.
I'm a fan of so many pickled and fermented things. It'd be a long list to answer.
I much prefer lacto-fermented foods over vinegar-pickled.
Peppers, both sweet and hot? Love 'em, especially fire roasted. Sun dried tomatoes? Hell yeah, great to cook with.
Soak something in vinegar though? Yeah, nah, I'm all set, thank you very much.
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I love all of these, but if I could only ever live with one it would be capers.
Pickles a close second. My FIL has an amazing recipe for tuna salad: three ripe avocado, three tins of tuna drained and pressed for minimum moisture, three teaspoon mayo and six small pickles finely chopped. (3 tsp mayo is about 1tbsp, but i wrote it like that so you can adjust to size needed 1:1:1:2)
Now I want to share a great caper recipe. This one is definitely greater than the sum of its parts and I didn't think I liked sardines prior to this:
I use the oil from the sardines to make up part of the required olive oil
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Canned black olives are my favorite, followed by the pickle chips, and then regular pickles, which I'm not sure if funny-name-I've-never-seen-before is or if those are the weird sweet ones.
All have their place, but canned black olives tap into childhood nostalgia. Putting an olive on each finger and eating them one at a time.
Everything on this list is my favorite, basically
2, 6 and 8 is fine.
Olives and capers can fuck right off!
I like them all haha.
Pickles might be my favorite though.
I like all of these except capers. I eat olives and pickles regularly.
4 and 5. I really dislike pickles. It's strange because they're both vegetables in pickled water
4,5,6 & 8. Olives in a salad, pickles on a sandwich and artichoke on a pizza
Chupadedos olives
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