Mediterranean Origanic Black Olives

These olives got a rating of 7 on salt, as well as size. They are a 5 in sweetness,and a 6 in vinegar.They were pleasantly soft, but on the border of being mushy. They were perfectly average, so I have little to say about them except I didn't think that they were like black olives at all. Maybe I'm just used to canned black olives, but these just seemed like kalamata olives to me.

It's a good thing that I've decided to write about things other than the glorious saltiness that is pickles and olives, because I've run out of things to say about this particular olive, and I haven't said much. But I also haven't decided what else I'm going to talk about yet, so I'm just going to derp around and share an few observations of life.

Does anyone else think that it's strange how fast people judge one another? Just from someone's appearance, we judge them. I'm guilty of it too. When I was younger, I met two girls my age at summer camp who wore dark eyeliner, heavy makeup, dark clothes, and hair that went over their eyes. I immediately assumed that we wouldn't get along. Towards the end of the week, I talked to them for some reason, and discovered that wee had a lot in common. I immediately felt bad that I had judged them, and wished that I had gotten to know them more. It struck me that people are very often not what they seem. But yet, it's firmly ingrained into human nature to judge each other. I still wonder how humans ended up with that particular part of our nature. Is it just the human love of making connections, or did it serve some purpose? Please comment on what you think, I'd love to hear what people think.

Goya Cocktail Olives(Pitted Manzanilla Spanish Olives)

 Sorry that I haven't posted in a while. I was traveling when I normally would have posted, and since I was already behind, I got lazy. This olive got a rating of 5 for salt, and a 5 for vinegariness. When eating it, the initial reaction was that it was salty, but then it was unexpectedly sweet afterward. In fact, I would give it a 9 on sweetness. It was sweet and good. I would give it a 7 for size. I would have liked it if they were a bit bigger, because the small size made you want to keep eating them without stopping. Or maybe that's just me. I would give it a quality rating of 9, it was good quality, but it had a few dents and mushy spots on a few olives. It was a firm olive, and pitted. It was an unusual green olive because of it's sweetness. In my experience, manzanilla olives are usually more salty, vinegary, and usually more bitter or sour than black or kalamata olives. I would also like to mention that this olive won an award, it was chef's choice or something like that. It's actually been a while since I ate these, so I don't remember exactly what it was. Overall, I would give these olives a score of 7, a perfectly average score. I have been thinking of adding another part to this blog, but I'm not quite sure what it should be. I would want to base it off one of my other interests. I like anime and manga, quilting, and puzzles. Or I could just put in random thoughts about life that I've been pondering lately. If you have any opinion on what it should be, please comment.

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Works Cafe Barrel Pickle

Overall this pickle is above average. I give it a 7.5. It has a saltiness rating of 5, and normally I would complain about the fact that it really isn't all that salty, but to be honest, in this case it would just mess with the flavors.

This pickle has flavors I've never encountered before, in my 12 or so years of loving pickles more than any sane person ever would. It has a strange spice to it. My first reaction would be to say that this pickle is spicy. but it's not spicy in a tobasco sauce way, it's spicy in a vinegary way, if that makes any sense. It doesn't, but that's the best way I can describe it. If you tried it yourself, you'd immediately see what I mean, but it's so unlike anything I've ever had before, it's hard to describe. But I liked it. At first I wasn't sure if I liked it, but after visiting the Works cafe multiple times, and having eaten the pickle about three of four times, I eventually decided that I liked it. It gets a size rating of 10, because you really don't get much better than a pickle the size of your hand, that actually has some heft to it. It's a dense pickle. If I had to estimate how much it weighed, even though it's been a while since I've had one, I'd say that it weighs about the same as 12 ounces of water. That's about 375 milliliters for those of you reading this blog internationally.

This pickle has a crunch of about 6.5. And although I said that the spice was a vinegary spice, I think it only gets a 7 on vinegar, right on average. There really is no vinegary taste, just the spice that is kind of like vinegar, but not. Overall, I like this pickle, and if you're reading this, and you're anywhere in Vermont,  I recommend you go to the Works Cafe, and try their pickle. And if you're going, I just want to say that their clam chowder is good, and their smoothies are amazing. Goodness, I'm turning into an advertisement.

Unknown Deli Olive # 7

This is the last of the unknown deli olives! Overall, this olive was sub-average. I'd give it about a 5.5. It was very soft, mushy even. And while it was okay, it was mushy enough for me to feel like it was rotten. It was also really wrinkly.  This olive was surprisingly vinegary, about an 8. It didn't have very much of a sweet flavor, but it was there if you looked for it, so i'd give that about a 5. The saltiness of this olive is really the only reason that I gave it a sub average score. As is obvious, from my name, I love salt. I am a saltaholic. And this olive lacked salt to the degree that I had to eat two of them to even tell if it was salty. I'd give it about a 3, because it was there, but it was such a minor flavor, it doesn't really count as being there. And not being salty is outrageous. It's why I like olives. I couldn't knock down the score very much, because that really was the only big flaw, but I found it frustrating  It had a size of about 8, which was nice, because the bigger the better. I'd also like to note that this is another olive that has caused my poor mouth to suffer. from having a sharp pit. I think I need to just start expecting a sharp pit from any olive that is ovular instead of round. That was I can avoid having my mouth be poked when I'm trying to enjoy my olive.  And I do have to give this olive credit where credit is due. It had an awesome aftertaste. It was mild, but definitely present,and had a slightly herby taste to it.

Unknown Deli Olive #6

This olive smelled awesome, and I was really exited to eat it. And the fact that I was exited to eat an olive is...concerning. I'm a little too obsessed with salt. Anywho  the smell was disappointing  because the olive tasted like a generic olive, except blander, and with a little bit of herby and oily because of the oil and herb bits it was sitting in in the dish. Well, actually it was really oily, but that wasn't the olive's fault...Great, now I'm personifying olives. I would also like to note that the pit was slightly sharp  which i/ almost always view as a disadvantage  this olive wasn't particularly salty, or sweet or, vinegary, or anything. In fact it was below the average on all of them. It got a 6 for salt, and a 5 fro vinegariness and sweetness. It got a size of six, and a quality of 8 because of the dents it had in it, but they didn't affect anything, only aesthetics. Overall  I give this olive a 7, an average, because there is nothing remarkable about it.

Unknown Deli Olive #5

I just have to say, that I'm not eating only one olive every few days, these deli olive would have gone bad by now(maybe that's why they were so vinegary). I wanted to clear that up, just in case anyone was wondering. Today's olive had I flavor I couldn't quite place, it was savory  but there was something else in the mix of flavors that I just have no idea what it was. But it was good.  It had a big round pit without sharp poky edges, so for once, my mouth was safe from the evil plots of pokey kalamata olive pits.

Sorry for the bad quality of the photo, I used my iPod for it, but I do that for all my photos, so I don't know why it came out so fuzzy.  This olive had a saltiness of 6.5, just in the range of being able to taste it. It was very soft, but I think it added to the overall olive. It made it kind of wrinkled and withered looking, which made me feel kind of like I was eating an old lady olive, but that's okay. It was a sweetness of 5, Almost non existent, but there as a background flavor. Vinegariness was a 6, so not a big part of the flavor, but it was there more than the sweet parts are.It had a pretty nice size, but nothing to rave about, so it gets and 8. I have to note that it was very oily, because it was at the bottom of the container, which had oil in it. It's not a part of the actual olive, but it affected my enjoyment, so I might as well mention it. Overall, this olive was an 8, better than average.