Is there ANY bottled olive that tastes GOOD?????

[oregonwoodsmoke]

Good olives cost money. There is no way around it.


If you like the ones from the salad bar, only buy what you can use in a week. They weigh them at the checkout, so problem solved. You don't have to buy more than you can use, and at $8.99 a pound, how many of them are you putting in your drink, anyway?


I like the pimento stuffed and jalapeno stuffed from Costco in a glass jar. The trick to pimento green olives is that you have to look carefully through the glass jar to make sure they are really stuffed with pimento and not that red colored jelly bean that is so prevalent.


Kalamata olives are hit and miss at Costco. Occasionally they have them and sometimes they don't. When they have them, they are quite good, but not a tiny jar and if you don't use them up fast, that might not work for you.


There is a high end grocery near me that sells a very nice selection of good olives in their deli. Again, buy what you will use up. They are not cheap.

[oregonwoodsmoke]

I consider Early California to be a less expensive brand, but my local market often puts their 5 ounce jar of pimento stuffed manzanilla olives on sale for a good price, and those are quite good. They are crisp and salty and a little bit bitter.


I'm not putting them into drinks. I use them in salads and I eat them straight out of the jar.


I buy the Early California canned black olives to go on pizza and they are run-of-the-mill canned olives. Fine for pizza, spaghetti sauce, and Mexican food.

[vrexy]

Originally Posted by oregonwoodsmoke

Good olives cost money. There is no way around it.


If you like the ones from the salad bar, only buy what you can use in a week. They weigh them at the checkout, so problem solved. You don't have to buy more than you can use, and at $8.99 a pound, how many of them are you putting in your drink, anyway?


I like the pimento stuffed and jalapeno stuffed from Costco in a glass jar. The trick to pimento green olives is that you have to look carefully through the glass jar to make sure they are really stuffed with pimento and not that red colored jelly bean that is so prevalent.


Kalamata olives are hit and miss at Costco. Occasionally they have them and sometimes they don't. When they have them, they are quite good, but not a tiny jar and if you don't use them up fast, that might not work for you.


There is a high end grocery near me that sells a very nice selection of good olives in their deli. Again, buy what you will use up. They are not cheap.

I have never seen, tasted or heard of such a thing as red colored jelly bean stuffed into an olive. What is this crazy thing you're talking about? LOL - does it taste like a real candy jelly bean or what?

[oregonwoodsmoke]

Originally Posted by vrexy

I have never seen, tasted or heard of such a thing as red colored jelly bean stuffed into an olive. What is this crazy thing you're talking about? LOL - does it taste like a real candy jelly bean or what?

No, it doesn't taste like anything. It's just an unsweetened red jelly pellet. Nice and uniform in size, nice color, no flavor. I'm sure that it is much cheaper and much easier to fit into an olive and it makes the olive look right.


Pimentos have gone up crazy in price, and then there is all the hassle of roasting them, peeling them, cutting them to the right size and getting them into the olive. But if I am buying a pimento stuffed olive, I want pimento in it.

[fatsquirrel]

Vitarroz Spanish Olives is an excellent brand but Costco is probably cheaper.