Up until about a year or two ago i thought they was absolutely disgusting , and as the thread headline states tasted of perfume, but just lately i've gone mad on them, espescially the ones from the deli counter in garlic and herbs. How do you stand on the Olive vote?
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I love 3 of them...in my chilled vodka!
Quote from: LBNo11 on February 06, 2010, 12:12:19 AM
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Popeye actually looks like he is just about to taste Olive, very good LB. ;D
Quote from: Steve_orino on February 06, 2010, 12:13:49 AM
I love 3 of them...in my chilled vodka!
Now that's just weird. ???
I love beer too!
But every once in a while you need a good vodka martini. Gin if you prefer...
Quote from: Steve_orino on February 06, 2010, 12:41:21 AM
I love beer too!
But every once in a while you need a good vodka martini. Gin if you prefer...
Yeah but with olives in? Saying that sambuca just aint the same without the coffee beans in it.
Blimey posh people. Olives are for toffs. I never ad an Olive an newer wiwl. Cause I is true to me roots. And a bad speller as well and my diction is awful apparantly. Olives indeed.
Have just read Fat Freddy and his post on the proper English thread. Ironic or what?
Quote from: Lighthouse on February 06, 2010, 12:59:16 AM
Have just read Fat Freddy and his post on the proper English thread. Ironic or what?
Not really old bean, believe it or not us chaps from the sink estates dont only eat kebabs , though they are high up our list.
Sorry spelling mistake in the original thread title, it should of course read orrible perfumey things. I do apologise.
If you start a thread on Caviar I really will begin to feel out classed here.
Do they have estates for sinks?
We were one of five different famililies living in one bath and we felt posh sitting furthest from the plug.
Quote from: Lighthouse on February 06, 2010, 01:23:58 AM
If you start a thread on Caviar I really will begin to feel out classed here.
Do they have estates for sinks?
We were one of five different famililies living in one bath and we felt posh sitting furthest from the plug.
If i've taken this the wrong way i do apologise Lighthouse, but i felt you'd tried to make a bit of a **** of my goodself. I've had a few so i'll look at it again tomorrow when sober to see if i've made yet anouther arse of myself, which i probably have. The response from my bad old days on the offal would have been a lot stronger though. My family live in a washing up bowl, no hot water, and we eat bird seed (mine is obviously doner kebab flavour) as our sunday treat.Outside toilet , we sh1t in the burnt out car infront of our steel door, with iron bars on our windows. :P
Here in the States, as a former bartender turned professional drinker, green olives and/or juice in a shaken vodka makes a "dirty martini" Is this not how it is on the Island?
It may be Posh, but it is quite good!
My main drink, so I can dust off the poshness, would be a nice amber in a pint glass...
I would prefer Kebab every day Fred, but it is really quite a delicacy here in "the mitten"
Black olives for me, not the green ones... stuffed black olives with crab or mushrooms. You can usually find me at the grocery store stealing these out of the self serve area and getting quite filled up on them.
Quote from: Steve_orino on February 06, 2010, 01:38:42 AM
Here in the States, as a former bartender turned professional drinker, green olives and/or juice in a shaken vodka makes a "dirty martini" Is this not how it is on the Island?
It may be Posh, but it is quite good!
My main drink, so I can dust off the poshness, would be a nice amber in a pint glass...
I'm sure only bars in Brighton would serve that up in good old Blighty. Saying that i tend to drink in Lloyds bars when out so what do i know? But you can arf ( just for your benefit Lighthouse ;)) get rotten really cheaply.
Quote from: clintclintdeuce on February 06, 2010, 01:42:32 AM
I would prefer Kebab every day Fred, but it is really quite a delicacy here in "the mitten"
Black olives for me, not the green ones... stuffed black olives with crab or mushrooms. You can usually find me at the grocery store stealing these out of the self serve area and getting quite filled up on them.
Hahaha Clint i'll be helping myself at the deli in Tesco tomorrow as well, though we dont get crab or mushroom with ours here. I should imagine i'd do a fair bit of damage to the chedder of the week as well. I think i prefer the green olives , but i'll eat both, seriously though garlic them up, every thing should have loads of garlic, i'm the anti vampire.
Quote from: FatFreddysCat on February 06, 2010, 01:34:00 AM
Quote from: Lighthouse on February 06, 2010, 01:23:58 AM
If you start a thread on Caviar I really will begin to feel out classed here.
Do they have estates for sinks?
We were one of five different famililies living in one bath and we felt posh sitting furthest from the plug.
If i've taken this the wrong way i do apologise Lighthouse, but i felt you'd tried to make a bit of a **** of my goodself. I've had a few so i'll look at it again tomorrow when sober to see if i've made yet anouther arse of myself, which i probably have. The response from my bad old days on the offal would have been a lot stronger though. My family live in a washing up bowl, no hot water, and we eat bird seed (mine is obviously doner kebab flavour) as our sunday treat.Outside toilet , we sh1t in the burnt out car infront of our steel door, with iron bars on our windows. :P
Oh stop it all. We all have had our fair share of crap in our lives but the truth is we are all having enough spare time on our hands to be on here with some friendly banter.
The last couple of posts have reminded me of the service a bit. On the ship I served most of my time in the Royal Navy we would have different hours eating depending on duties and also because not everyone could fit in the mess at the same time. Either way, the youngest one in terms of service to the country on the shift would be stuffed at the far end under the telly and be served last. So if you felt like having a second steak/pizza/whatever it would mean that the the chap under the TV would get only potatoes.
That is just the way it was and nobody complained because eventually that lad would be getting towards the front of the pecking order over time. I ate a lot of potatoes for a long time. We had the same pecking order in terms of bunks and the young ones (like me at the time) got stuffed and given the top ones (3 high) and had to strap myself in with a seatbelt contraption when the seas were bad because you would fall out. The only blessing was when you got seasick you could throw up on the w***er under you
I'll consider myself told Finny ::). Though to be honest as a young 18 year old i cant imagine myself being told to wait for my food by an older bloke, infact now i'm much less mobile and fit than i was at 18, i'd stil go mental if someone had 1st dibs at the doner kebab. Lucky i was in the SAS eh? ::) ::) ::) ::)
FAT FREDDY
Well I am a sensitive soul and feel insulted that anything what I wrote like, could be interpreted as an insult to Fat Freddy. I have just spent several valuable moments re reading the thread and realise Fat Fred thought my Bath stolen type Monty Python joke was an attack on him. A chip on the shoulder class thing. Well it wasn't and so I am not even going to say sorry for any implied or imagined insult. This is an MB where people post stuff about Olives. If they see a class war brewing because I joined in then more fool them.
Drunk or not over sensitive or not I am done appologising for any imagined insults. I still love Fat Freddy and just feel hurt. Like a dagger through the heart. But I will be ok. A little time on my own in a corner somewhere and I will be fine.
Quote from: FatFreddysCat on February 06, 2010, 02:10:32 AM
I'll consider myself told Finny ::). Though to be honest as a young 18 year old i cant imagine myself being told to wait for my food by an older bloke, infact now i'm much less mobile and fit than i was at 18, i'd stil go mental if someone had 1st dibs at the doner kebab. Lucky i was in the SAS eh? ::) ::) ::) ::)
Cant believe i missed the fact you posted as a young sailor you got stuffed ;D ::) :-*.
You learn to grow up rather quickly mate and to look out for trouble
Quote from: Lighthouse on February 06, 2010, 02:18:10 AM
FAT FREDDY
Well I am a sensitive soul and feel insulted that anything what I wrote like, could be interpreted as an insult to Fat Freddy. I have just spent several valuable moments re reading the thread and realise Fat Fred thought my Bath stolen type Monty Python joke was an attack on him. A chip on the shoulder class thing. Well it wasn't and so I am not even going to say sorry for any implied or imagined insult. This is an MB where people post stuff about Olives. If they see a class war brewing because I joined in then more fool them.
Drunk or not over sensitive or not I am done appologising for any imagined insults. I still love Fat Freddy and just feel hurt. Like a dagger through the heart. But I will be ok. A little time on my own in a corner somewhere and I will be fine.
:-*. Well who'd have thought a simple thread like olives would start all that.
Quote from: finnster01 on February 06, 2010, 02:23:17 AM
You learn to grow up rather quickly mate and to look out for trouble
And to never pick the soap up in the showers ;)
Or the Bath
Or to touch anyone's stuff in the little lockers where we kept the little belongings we were allowed to keep and that meant something to you such as my Fulham 1982 squad photo in the old division two glued to my door together with my mums photo.
After The Grand Hotel Bomb In Brighton and after the place was secure, certain items were moved and went walkabout. The biggest culprit took his stuff home and we called his home The Little Grand. Yet if there was one bloke I would trust above anyone it was him. I knew he would never take anything from me or anybody who worked with him. You never soiled your own back yard and you always stuck by your work mates.
I suppose that is the same now. But not sure I would want toput it to the test.
Quote from: FatFreddysCat on February 06, 2010, 01:49:16 AM
Quote from: clintclintdeuce on February 06, 2010, 01:42:32 AM
I would prefer Kebab every day Fred, but it is really quite a delicacy here in "the mitten"
Black olives for me, not the green ones... stuffed black olives with crab or mushrooms. You can usually find me at the grocery store stealing these out of the self serve area and getting quite filled up on them.
Hahaha Clint i'll be helping myself at the deli in Tesco tomorrow as well, though we dont get crab or mushroom with ours here. I should imagine i'd do a fair bit of damage to the chedder of the week as well. I think i prefer the green olives , but i'll eat both, seriously though garlic them up, every thing should have loads of garlic, i'm the anti vampire.
There are a few of these Italian type grocery/bistros around here, that have full isles of the stuff. Its fantastic. Garlic Mushrooms to go along with some teriyaki mushrooms to go with some stuffed olives to go with the giant olives.... fantastic stuff really
I love the green ones stuffed with a whole garlic clove
the Black ones are good too as Stevie ''Oh"" says ''great with the old martini''
.............Fred you would love Montinegro, sit down for a drink and you also get olives, chopped garlic fresh olive oil and
loads of fresh dipping bread...................amazing
Interesting to see some folk thinking olives as posh. I love my olives black with the stone still in so I can spit it out! or green stuffed with either a red chilli or anchovie. Putting any kind of vegetable in an alcoholic drink? now that's posh. Exception to that is chillies in vodka then put in freezer for one week before consuming.