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.

Unknown Deli Olive #4

This olive was okay, I guess, but I don't know, it just wasn't my cup of olive brine....I mean tea. It was a little too bitter.I'm not a fan of bitter. It had a saltiness of 6.5, which is pretty good. it was firmish, and had a fairly good quality, which is a common trend in firm olives  but their was a little lumpiness  It was a fairly sweet olive, about a 6, and it was about a 6 in vinegaryness. But all that was covered by the bitterness of it, so it doesn't really matter how vinegary, sweet or salty. I also noticed that the farther I got down this dish, the olives became very oily, because they were sitting in oil. Overall, this is an average olive, about a 7. Also, this is a unpitted olive, and if you find it, beware of the sharp pit. Every one of these olives that I ate hurt my mouth.  but that's all I have to say. It's bitter with a sharp pit.  

Unknown Deli Olive #3

This olive is wonderful! It is all that I could hope for in an olive. It  could pass as one of the best olives I have ever tasted. I can't even begin to describe the amazingness of this olive. It was a soft olive, and it was a very sweet, with a slight herby taste to it, which is not surprising  because all the olives I got from my friend were covered in little herb bits, and I think that was the olive bar's theme or something. It's sweetness was it's main quality, about a 7.5 out of 10. It was also very salty, I'd give it a saltiness rating of 9 out of 10. And the saltiness is one of the main factors that decides weather I like the olive or not. I don't mean to sound like a broken typewriter though, because I know that I mentioned it in my last blog. This olive was very un-vinegary, about a 3. It's quality was average, it was a little lumpy and wrinkly, but there were no splits, so it didn't really take away from the aesthetic value. I'd give it an 8 in size, and this olive was rather oily. I think that it was mostly because of the container the olives were in, as I got to the bottom, I had to wipe off more and more oil and weird little clumps of herbs. Another thing that I liked about this olive, weird as it may sound, was the pit. I enjoy sucking on the pit if i'm trying to keep myself from eating the whole jar, because it keeps my mouth occupied. With many pits, especially oblong olives, I can't do this because the ends of the pit are almost sharp. This pit was almost in a perfect circle, and it didn't have any weird flavors or textures like some pits do. I know it sounds weird, but it made me like the olive even more. This is definitively on of the best olives I have ever had the pleasure of eating.

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Unknown Deli Olive #2

To be honest, I didn't like this olive, it just wasn't my thing. It was a savory olive, but it was far more bitter than it was savory. I was almost sour, but it's bitterness was  overpowering. I think this olive was kinda like coffee  it was an acquired taste, that I don't have. It was very firm  and tightly wrapped around the pit. I would give it a high rating for quality, but because of it's tightness, about half of the ones that I had were split, so it gets a 4. Well, I don't know if that is the actual reason, but that is my little conclusion.

 Despite it's bitterness, it was actually sweet, about a 6 out of 10, but it was covered by it's bitterness. It wasn't very salty,maybe a 5, which is always a negative point for me. I love salt, as you can probably tell from my user. It was quite vinegary though, which was an interesting flavor when combined with the bitterness. Now that I think of it, I wonder if it is less flavored and salty so it tastes similar to how an un-pickled olive would taste like. But I don't really like the flavor, so it doesn't matter. It was also rather small, I'd give it a 4 out of 10. It smelled really good, and herby, and is a really pretty color of bright green, so I was exited to eat it, but it ended up disappointing me.

Unknown Deli Olive #1

Today I was eating some deli olives that a friend got for me. So I have no idea what they actually are. So this series of reviews will be about the mystery deli olives. I have to note that these olives smelled awesome. It was like the goddess of delicious smells came down to them and bestowed all her powers of amazing smells onto this little dish. Or maybe I'm to the point of liking olives so much, just smelling them makes me happy. It's probably the second. This olive was an 8 overall, I think. It was a savory olive, with an herby taste. 

I'd give this olive a 9 for size, it was quite large, and in my opinion the bigger  the better. For quality, I'd say it was a 6. It was a good shape, and the skin was pulled tight, so there were no weird looking wrinkles  but a few of them had split down the side, and while this doesn't affect taste, it does take the aesthetic value down a few notches  This olive has a vinegariness of about 6.5, which I'd say is about average, you can taste it easily, but you don't really notice until you try to notice. The sweetness of this olive was about a 5, you could taste it, and it taste nicely sweet, but you had to really be trying to notice the sweetness in order to taste it. It had a great texture, i prefer firm olives, and this one was firm without being tough. I'd give this a saltiness of 8 , it was pretty salty  but I've tasted saltier. This olive was also very oily, probably a 9 out of 10. This olive was unpitted  which i think is always  a plus, because the olive hold up better. Oh, and there were little bits and peices of herbs, which made it look very fancy, but when you ate the olive, the bits and pieces got in the way. It really takes away from the experience if you have all sorts of random crap in your mouth.

Farman's Whole Garlic Dill Pickle

Today I ate Farman's Whole garlic Dill. I would give it a crunchiness rating of 8 out of 10 with 10 being a potato chip, and 1 being mush. So it was satisfyingly crunchy, but if it had been any crunchier I wouldn't have liked it as much. It was slightly garlicky  but I would not have noticed it if I had not read the label. It was a 4 out of 10 in sweetness, with 1 being vinegar, and 10 being sugar, but it was a dill pickle, so it's not what you'd expect to be sweet. It had a vinegariness of about 7.5 out of 10, which is your average pickle's vinegariness in my eyes. I have eaten almost the entire jar, the pickle being the third to last in the jar, and this is the only one that I have found any imperfection on. This one had a little scar, where it looked like it had been eaten at some point. It was small, and most jars have at least one imperfection, so I'd give these pickles a quality rating of 9 out of 10.

The size I'd give about a 7 out of ten. It was smaller than I'd like, but it wasn't too disappointing  I prefer big pickles myself. I'd give this pickle about 8.5 in it's satisfyingness and goodness. I wasn't left wanting more, but I definitively wouldn't mind more. 

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