V. peculiar realisation today.

[camwyn]

1. Am very fond of a certain variety of meat-substitute's stir-fry-sized strips. They come in chicken flavour and steak flavour and are 100% meat-free. Too lazy to go look at the name on the packet label right now, though.
2. Grabbed a black olive out of the can as my mother was adding them to salad today. As my tongue was busy going 'mmm woo yeah olive yay!', my brain suddenly realised...
3. The black olive tasted awfully like the strip packet I bought today.

Have now got picture in head of modernised Pallas Athene happily chowing down on meat-substitute for lack of any really decent olives in this part of the country.

Comments

[kali921.livejournal.com]

Have you tried those huge cerignola olives? The huge black ones, like 2.5 inches long?

They are olive heaven.

I suspect they also surpass meat substitute strips, of which I am also very fond.

[camwyn]

Haven't had the chance. I'm mostly only familiar with the ordinary canned olives- I'm not much fond of the seriously salty brine you get with good olives.

[kali921.livejournal.com]

Well, this being SF, every grocery store now has an olive bar, with twelve differnt kinds of olives displayed. You have your herb marinated unsalty nicsoises, your mellow sweet huge Cerignolas, your feta cheese stuffed giant green French olives whose name I cannot remember, garlic stuffed olives, lemon herb stuffed olives, olives in hot pepper marinade, orange and lemon marinated olives...it goes on and on and on.

I love olives. So, 12 kinds isn't quite enough for me, but I can at least maintain my habit on those.

I never thought I'd be the kind of woman who owns olive boats. OMG!! I have become my mother!!

[camwyn]

See, for me it's cheese. My friend Deirdre says there are two kinds of people in the world, cheese people and chocolate people, and this can be determined by asking a person which of the two they would give up forever if they had to give up all varieties of one or the other. I have this thing for cheese varieties. One of these days I'm going to get the Tibetan yak cheese they sell at Whole Foods just to say I tried it.

[midnightlurker.livejournal.com]

She's wrong. There are three kinds of people, because I'd just stand there staring at her as if she'd asked me whether I'd rather murder my father or my mother.

[camwyn]

Heh. I'll let her know next time I talk to her, see if she's had any other such responses.

ClassicDrogn agrees with E.M. Lurker

[(Anonymous)]

I eat cheese more often, but enjoy chocolate more when I have it... they're two of the things that make life worth living.

Incidentally, have you ever tried spreading a bit of chocolate whipped-cream-frosting on some medium sharpish cheddar? It's a taste that might make your mother see our side of the argument.

- CD