Something else I'm obsessed with? Green olives. The big ones with pimentos in them; I like to jimmy them out of jar with a spoon (they're always pretty wedged in; the company that makes them packs them in this long skinny jar. Fat round objects in long skinny jar = badness) and then I like to suck the juice out of them through the end with the small hole in it, so as not to suck the pimento out of them. Then I bite them, and because they're so big, they take a few bites to get through. I absolutely love the tangy saltiness of them, and though I've liked green olives for just about as long as I can remember, my mom never bought/buys these big mambo jambos, and these things are where it's at.
Sometimes I go through more than a jar a week, though that hasn't happened since early/late November. For a while, I was bring four or five in my lunch, and that would honestly be the item I saved for last, while eating. (I'm not a mixer-upper at lunch. I like to eat every item independently alone. Usually I eat any raw vegetable item first, say carrot sticks or whatnot, and then the sandwich or yogurt, and then, if I have a 100-cal pack, I'll eat that, followed by sugar-free jello, if I have that. And of course, olives come last, if I have them. But you get my point.) Lately, I've been eating fewer olives, and I'm not sure why, because every time I open the fridge, my mouth waters when my eyes catch sight of the olives.
In case you're wondering, because I know it sounds like this weird craving thing, I'm totally not pregnant. Trust me, totally not. I apparently just have an overwhelming passion for olives. It's funny, because I think that most of the places I eat at give the olive short shrift. I can't remember the last time I had olives at a restaurant, unless it was a tapas place, in which case, there's always olives around. Still, olives are the kind of pleasure that you can really only experience in the home. Standing at your counter. Digging around in a jar, and sucking the juice out of. Maybe it's just me.
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