Sick and twisted fate
People who don’t like olives have weak souls. Literally spiritually frail.
it’s not trueRepent and take your soul to the gym.
you didn’t have marmarabirlik then. the greek export olives are ass
It’s okay, olives are best as an ingredient in dishes
Even tapenade has other stuff in it
While I generally agree, this is leaving out eating olives straight from the jar
You eat the hell out of those olives my friend
I will! Fun fact! Olives are cat drugs! They contain the same psychoactive chemicals as catnip! My kitty really wanted some once so I looked up if they were safe to share and found out that’s why she ess going wild for em. Theyre salty and sometimes have garlic in play tho, so be careful
I want to explore with olives in cooking but my partner despises them even more than I do 😔
Maybe one day when they are not home lol
I use them a lot when I make my traditional Puerto Rican dishes
Chop a couple up, toss 'em in some rice or beans, a little brine for good measure and my friend, you got something good to eat
One of the things that only I do at work cause im the best at is making brine for our marinated olives. Literal brine of course, red wine vinegar, some oranges chopped up into it, tarragon, oregano and rosemary and roasted garlic
Sounds tasty!
I would probably eat some of those with some nice bread
Not at the price we charge for it
Mmmm Green Olives in rice, so good
I dont always agree with you but thank you for speaking truth
can you enjoy olives without tomatoes? didn’t think so. another day another native american cultural victory.
Yes, easily. Those are two great tastes that taste great together but also great separately.
you know what we do with bougie deviationists around these parts
That’s my biggest fear. Sometimes I want to invent a time machine and go write all of Aristotle Plato’s stuff a week before he did so people think I’m the smartest guy. Or go back to Ancient Rome and win all the battles. I just know that the moment I do those things, everyone is going to love me so much that I’m not going to be able to leave. They’ll try to feed me olives off a large platter and then they’ll laugh at me because I only like the oil. I can’t just coast forever on eating rhino heads- they’ll want me to eat something that should taste like a bean or a date but doesn’t. It tastes weird.
Hey what complex or psychology do we have where we fantasize about going back in time to take credit for shit? I’ve never talked to anyone about this so maybe everyone does it i guess
Bill & Ted just wanted to do better on their history final. Weird Al had a song where he went back in time to pay his phone bill on time. Time travel is a boon that is only granted to the unambitious. As for me, I want to bring CGI back to the 1950s so I can make stunningly advanced soap advertisements
I mean obviously i want to go back to when i was cpu mining bitcoin on the school computer lab pcs and tell myself it’s not stupid and actually is cool but i don’t think I’d have listened because I’m old
I'm George Stanley and let me introduce you to a little device called a Computronic Mathematical MachineComputer for short, but don't let that fool you, these things can put up with some tall orders!
It’s bullshit. My teachers called me gifted but every time I invent something it was already invented centuries ago. I had a great idea for something called Greek Fire until the fucking Greeks invented it.
thinking that you are smarter than your parents, lateteen-early 20s disease? seems fairly parseable tbh. although mark twain wrote his yankee in king arthur court in the 50s, so it might be impressive technological progress over lifetime brain compression (if i only knew (x), then i would have made so much (money/power/lessened suffering), so in a way, regret?
decided to do vibe check:
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seems like regret/quarter-life crisis is likelier to be predictor than late teens i know everything vibe
Okay but I do know everything, obviously
You too? I knew that
Luckily for any time travelling olive haters, ancient olives would probably taste a lot different. Olives aren’t edible when you pick them off the tree because they have an incredibly bitter chemical called oleuropein. Ancient people soaked olives in salt water for months at a time to remove the oleuropein, but most modern olives are treated with lye because it only takes a day or so. You can buy salt cured olives and most people believe they taste a lot better
This is good to know, I will give salt cured olives a try
probably you would just learn to like olives because the alternative would have been starving to death. human beings are extremely adaptable organisms, that’s like our whole evolutionary strategy as a species
You: “human beings are extremely adaptable organisms, that’s like our whole evolutionary strategy as a species.”
Me: “Mmmmmm dino nuggies again!”
We are not the same.
cw: I lied
JK I love variety. I understand picky eaters in theory, but I cannot even begin to empathize. They’ll have to settle for my sympathy and confused tolerance
My body is a garbage disposal (for plants, fungi, and sometimes silly little bacteriums only though)
You call them dino nuggies even though there is literally 0 triceratops in them?
Birds are dinosaurs. Exhibit A:
Im pretty sure that’s neither a dinosaur nor a bird
Are you an ornithologist?
Im an onanist. Is that anything?
Yeah, it is!
it's...
FUCKING SICK. MAINTAIN YOUR VITAL ESSENCES OR FACE THE CONSEQUENCES, SINNER!
i think sometimes about how they def fucked with olive oil
Took me a second to realize you meant “fucked” literally lol. But yeah, 100% that was the lubricant of choice I would think.
I fucked with coconut oil once
thats not as stinky
True, gotta step up my game
I assume that’s what prompted Alexander eastward.
I can slurp down jars after jars of olives
Happy for you
go fishing@get abducted by phoenicians@go fishing@get abducted by pirates@go fishing@get abducted by romans@go fishing@get abducted by greeks@eat your fucking olives inland
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Not even a rant, bro barely raised his voice. No passion, only cold critique. 6/10
At least you got plenty of ouzo and dolmas
At least there’s the butt sex
Actually the Greeks were more into intercrural sex I think. At least i heard that on a podcast once.
Huh. Thigh guys eh?
Yeah, very much so. Intercural sex was the Socially Acceptable way of bottoming, they still had a very strong taboo about sodomy proper.
For a citizen to be sodomized was seen as disgusting and highly looked down upon, though they were fine with doing such things to slaves.
Even the intercural, it should be noted, it was only socially acceptable to bottom if you were a young man, an Eromenos, which is… basically like if you put the concepts of Twink and Femboy inna blender and made them a sort of time-limited third gender (Typically the 16-25 range though we have examples of Eromenos being up to 29 sometimes) that one was supposed to grow out of as one aged and became a Man.
Greek homosexuality and the cultural norms around it are more complicated than most realize, as is usually the case with historical examples of pre-modern cultures that in some way were accepting of homosexuality.
(Small correction - eromenos.)
Woops! Thank you for the correction! I always end up adding that extra s, always been better with the Latin spelling than the Greek.
My Latin skills, such as they were, have completely decayed. I need the legionary from Life of Brian to terrify me into remembering the grammar.
Yeah, I’m vaguely aware of what you talk about as I’ve been on a bit of an antiquity bender for the last year, but I’ve not covered this topic on much detail. Any books or sources you could recommend?
The author I recommend elsewhere in this thread is great - James Davidson. His books are Courtesans and Fishcakes and The Greeks and Greek Love.
Nice, thanks
I love the first olive but despise the third
