They were first discovered by pimentos. They would hide themselves in olives being shipped to America to escape the poverty and lack of jobs in rural Spain. Unfortunately for them when they got to America there were no jobs to be had for unskilled red peppers. Most of them end their days drowning there sorrows in gin.
Nonsense. Olives were first discovered by toothpicks. You see, a toothpick’s natural habitat is a club sandwich, or sometimes a hamburger. They spend their days with their heads buried in the sandwich, and their back ends pointed into the air. When the olives started falling out of the sky, most of them landed on the ground and were quickly crushed. However, a few of them landed on some sandwiches that happened to be sitting outside and were impaled on the toothpicks, gaining the attention of numerous passers-by as well as national deli chains.