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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 34601" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>In our family, it's only difficult child 1 who doesn't like black olives. And green ones... But the black ones, they prefer them to be big, black Kalamata olives.</p><p></p><p>It was easy child's grandfather who got her hooked on black olives, eaten with a mouthful of dry bread. He'd spent some time as a runaway POW in WWII on Crete and learned to love them. When easy child was 4, and having her lunch stolen at school by a difficult child, we gave her a special treat for her lunch - dry bread and black olives. Her lunch never got stolen again!</p><p></p><p>easy child 2/difficult child 2 was a baby, we were eating at the Pizza Hut and she was, as usual, crawling out of her high chair to get to the pizza. But it wasn't the pizza she was after, it was the tiny black ring-things (sliced pitted olives) that she was trying to get. I picked off a couple for her and she scoffed them and wanted more. And these were the not-so-great, Spanish variety! Once we got her onto Kalamata olives, she was hooked like easy child.</p><p></p><p>difficult child 3 had no chance - he's always liked strong flavours. The strong taste of the olives is as strong as Vegemite, which all my kids love (in moderation - it HAS to be spread very thinly, you never slab it on like jam).</p><p></p><p>easy child's lunch took another slightly weird turn when she was in high school - I had begun cooking pickled octopus. After cooking the baby octopus (halved, if they're big) and storing them in 50:50 lemon juice and olive oil, seasoned with garlic & herbs, I would serve them with salad. But easy child liked to eat them on their own, or - you guessed it - with dry bread and black olives. She delighted in taking them to school for lunch and making the legs wriggle as she ate them, to gross out her friends.</p><p>But while the other kids love calamari, they aren't too fond of octopus so I don't cook it often.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 34601, member: 1991"] In our family, it's only difficult child 1 who doesn't like black olives. And green ones... But the black ones, they prefer them to be big, black Kalamata olives. It was easy child's grandfather who got her hooked on black olives, eaten with a mouthful of dry bread. He'd spent some time as a runaway POW in WWII on Crete and learned to love them. When easy child was 4, and having her lunch stolen at school by a difficult child, we gave her a special treat for her lunch - dry bread and black olives. Her lunch never got stolen again! easy child 2/difficult child 2 was a baby, we were eating at the Pizza Hut and she was, as usual, crawling out of her high chair to get to the pizza. But it wasn't the pizza she was after, it was the tiny black ring-things (sliced pitted olives) that she was trying to get. I picked off a couple for her and she scoffed them and wanted more. And these were the not-so-great, Spanish variety! Once we got her onto Kalamata olives, she was hooked like easy child. difficult child 3 had no chance - he's always liked strong flavours. The strong taste of the olives is as strong as Vegemite, which all my kids love (in moderation - it HAS to be spread very thinly, you never slab it on like jam). easy child's lunch took another slightly weird turn when she was in high school - I had begun cooking pickled octopus. After cooking the baby octopus (halved, if they're big) and storing them in 50:50 lemon juice and olive oil, seasoned with garlic & herbs, I would serve them with salad. But easy child liked to eat them on their own, or - you guessed it - with dry bread and black olives. She delighted in taking them to school for lunch and making the legs wriggle as she ate them, to gross out her friends. But while the other kids love calamari, they aren't too fond of octopus so I don't cook it often. Marg [/QUOTE]
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