11/10/07

[lsanderson]

Olives!

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[jblaque.livejournal.com]

Ooh, yum.

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

Is that the right colour? I've never seen olives in that shade of green - they look more like Brussels sprouts.

They're...

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

Fresh off the tree olives. My guess is that they'd taste like chewing oak bark. A few changes of water, a little lye, more salt, maybe ready to eat...

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[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

Aha - of course. I hadn't taken that into account. (Nor did I realize that olives couldn't be eaten fresh. Makes you wonder how humans discovered they were edible in the first place...)

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[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

I'll guess from watching animals eat them and trying some that have been in a river or water. It's like recipes for eating stinging nettles... boil them in three changes of water... ;-)