#i treat my food aversions like mountains to climb and i have bested several:

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I hated olives for years, but I love Megan Whalen Turner's book The Thief and it it made olives sound so good. Every time I read that book I would crave the food she described. I would make Thief meals for lunch but skip the olives. It just felt like it was missing something.

so i added olives to my list of food dislikes to conquer - started with black canned olives (they taste like salt) chopped really small. I've now worked my way up to any black olive or kalamata/purple olive, as long as they're in brine and not oil. They're pleasantly briney and a great way to balance out otherwise bland dishes in small quantities. And now I can make a full spread Thief lunch - bread with hard cheese, yogurt with honey, an orange and some black olives 😍

Green olives are still disgusting.

Re: who even likes olives, my lovely girlfriend bought me a box of six different kinds of artisanal olives, nice big jars too, as a combination birthday/top surgery gift and it was one of the best presents I've ever received. I was set for olives for like three months

You are a mystery I will never comprehend