# Tell me what to do with a gazillion olives **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 27, 2007, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-what-to-do-with-a-gazillion-olives/420656 "2007-09-27T07:35:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![gazpacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-what-to-do-with-a-gazillion-olives/420656/21 "2007-09-27T19:27:28Z")
[QUOTE=Bayard] Get behind me, Satan! Blue cheese should never be profaned in such a way. [/QUOTE] You are totally in the wrong here. Blue cheese stuffed olives make the martini. A martini is a drink with strong flavors for cranky old men who can no longer taste as well as they used to because of a life of drinking and smoking. Let your inner cranky old man out drink martinis with blue cheese stuffed olives. I am going to try stuffing Kalamatas this weekend and see if they are as good as the green ones. ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-what-to-do-with-a-gazillion-olives/420656/22 "2007-09-27T19:41:40Z")
Another idea–Greek Salad Take some lettuce–Romaine works well–put in bowl. Add sliced red onion, tomato, black olives, feta cheese and Greek Salad Dressing. (Sorry, no recipe for the dressing. I have an herb mix from a farmer’s market which is mixed with olive oil and vinegar.) ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-what-to-do-with-a-gazillion-olives/420656/23 "2007-09-27T19:49:24Z")
[QUOTE=gazpacho] A martini is a drink with strong flavors for cranky old men who can no longer taste as well as they used to because of a life of drinking and smoking. [/QUOTE] Well, that explains the _first_ martini, but not the next four. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-what-to-do-with-a-gazillion-olives/420656/24 "2007-09-27T21:57:51Z")
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp] > [@azpacho](#): > > A martini is a drink with strong flavors for cranky old men who can no longer taste as well as they used to because of a life of drinking and smoking. Well, that explains the _first_ martini, but not the next four. 😉 [/QUOTE] “I never should have switched from Scotch to Martinis.” – Humphrey Bogart’s apocryphal last words. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-what-to-do-with-a-gazillion-olives/420656/25 "2007-09-28T03:02:28Z")
[QUOTE=Caricci] Are they pitted or not. [/QUOTE] oooooh yes. If they weren’t you might find somebody else being “pitted” in short order … I’m sitting here imagining sitting down and pitting a kilo of olives all at once (shudder) tapenade sounds good. And contains anchovies and capers - I always like to get a good dose of ALL the things my husband hates in one recipe, it’s a very efficient way of getting my own fix 😉 . Even better if it had yoghurt too (hmmm - wonder how well they’d go together?) And pizza! Pizza is good. We do faces, and use the olives for eyes and nose and a capsicum mouth. I might have to think of another scheme for Maximum Olive Usage though. Maybe a house made out of black bricks… Can’t face salad this weekend though - it’s gone all cold wet and dreary. Hot comfort food for us today! Thanks guys, I’m off to the kitchen. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-what-to-do-with-a-gazillion-olives/420656/26 "2007-09-28T13:50:26Z")
Yesterday Mr. S came home with a bunch of goodies from the cooler of our favorite cafe: horseradish cheese, lemon-pepper smoked salmon, and black bean hummus. Well that clinched it. We went to the store for some crusty bread and crackers, and I picked up a few cans of olives (already had the anchovies and capers) and made tapenade. For dinner we covered the coffee table with finger food and munched away. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-what-to-do-with-a-gazillion-olives/420656/27 "2007-09-28T13:55:35Z")
[Popeye] Agagagaga! Hello, Olive! [/Popeye] ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-what-to-do-with-a-gazillion-olives/420656/28 "2007-09-28T13:59:51Z")
[QUOTE=Caricci] Are they pitted or not. If pitted, you can make a gazillion olive fingertips. … [/QUOTE] This is what I was picturing when I saw the thread title. A huge crowd of people with olives on their fingertips.\ I have no ideas to add, I would have said tapenade and puttanesca as well. ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-what-to-do-with-a-gazillion-olives/420656/29 "2007-09-28T14:54:45Z")
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