I like all of these except capers. I eat olives and pickles regularly.
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I love all of these, but if I could only ever live with one it would be capers.
Pickles a close second. My FIL has an amazing recipe for tuna salad: three ripe avocado, three tins of tuna drained and pressed for minimum moisture, three teaspoon mayo and six small pickles finely chopped. (3 tsp mayo is about 1tbsp, but i wrote it like that so you can adjust to size needed 1:1:1:2)
Now I want to share a great caper recipe. This one is definitely greater than the sum of its parts and I didn't think I liked sardines prior to this:
I use the oil from the sardines to make up part of the required olive oil
How much oil did you use to make the recipe?
From the tin and a splash more, so about 2 tbsp
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I much prefer lacto-fermented foods over vinegar-pickled.
Peppers, both sweet and hot? Love 'em, especially fire roasted. Sun dried tomatoes? Hell yeah, great to cook with.
Soak something in vinegar though? Yeah, nah, I'm all set, thank you very much.
I just did a batch of lactofermented cherry tomatoes, and the one out of four jars that didn’t get moldy just tastes a bit salty, not really fermented. Not sure what I did wrong.
All have their place, but canned black olives tap into childhood nostalgia. Putting an olive on each finger and eating them one at a time.
4 and 5. I really dislike pickles. It's strange because they're both vegetables in pickled water
4,5,6 & 8. Olives in a salad, pickles on a sandwich and artichoke on a pizza
I like them all haha.
Pickles might be my favorite though.
Can’t forget the pickled okra!
marinated garlic cloves, olives stuffed with almonds, mini peppers with cream cheese
also, capers and cornichons have no business being food.
Sweet gherkin, I guess?
I'm not exactly sure what the category is
None of this sounds good
Found the reptilian
These are all things I hated biting into on burgers and pizza so they have a very mild traumatization to them ruining them forever
jfc people!
Castelvetrano olives > everything on that list
In order: 8 (sans sauerkraut & pickled veggies), 1, 7, 3, 5, 4, 6, 2.
Doritos
Ranch, Nacho?
- In a martini
- Off of fingertips (though my fingers are big enough that I just have to eat them out of the can)
Jalapeños. I like them on everything from nachos to burgers, but I vastly prefer fresh to pickled.
Sauerkraut. Only on a Reuben.
Pickles will never voluntarily touch my plate, and when they do I push my plate to the nearest pickle person so I don’t have to remove it myself and get contaminated with the vinegar.
Sun dried tomatoes and the occasional kalamata olive I can tolerate. Artichoke hearts and roasted bell peppers are awesome.
I love pickles, Kalamata olives, kimchi, and artichoke hearts. I'd say I like everything else, although I've had some bad green olives and am not crazy about capers.
All of you in this thread are fucking psychopaths
Kalamata olives and similar little food objects are fine, they are often delicious
Eating the rest of these unflavorful little saltpellets on purpose is a ridiculous thing though
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