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Not really a huge fan of olives but olive oil is a wonderful thing.

I still remember the first time I had a kalamata olive. I was 13 years old, and my family had decided to picnic with some friends along a river. One person had brought along a bunch of kalamatas and was raving about them. I was eager to try one, but when I did, I thought they were awful. But after eating them at random intervals over the years, I've grown to love them; they're now my favorite :)

the little spanish arbequina olives, hands down.

I love olives! My favorite depends on my mood - sometimes cerignola, sometimes arbequina, sometimes picholines, sometimes nicoise, sometimes picual, sometimes manzanilla - give them all to me.

Never met an olive I didn't love. My current favorite is picholine. It will be something else next week...

young, fat, green cerignolas. and sadly those gross pimento stuffed ones in the grocery store

feta-stuffed green olives. or black oil cured ones. I love the oil most of all- I practically drink it if it's good enough.

Picholine...or a big green one stuffed with a smoked almond. yum.

picholine with a little lemon zest and red pepper....mmmmm, too good

Definitely Kalamata, or ones stuffed with parmesan cheese...mmmm

Nicoise olives to eat out of hand.
A hand stuffed blue cheese green olive for my martini.

I had to look it up because, like many other above, I'm not familiar with the names, but Lucque olive are quite tasty.