Hello-hello again, sha-boom, sha-boom!
I went to the grocery store today to just get TP, coffee and milk. Mmm. That's my kinda shopping list. Anyhow, I also had to pick up a jar of spanish olives.
Why?
'Cause they are the yum.
I saw them on the shelf on sale for the usual Thanksgiving relish dish, but I say screw the relish dish! Give me a fork and a jar of olives! Oh the freedom!
Ahem.
On the jar it says they are 'thrown spanish olives'. I'm sure that has something to do with there being a hole in them with the little pieces of pimento goodness stuffed inside. But, and you know there's a but in there, I can't help but imagine a spanish olive raising family, pelting olives at each other before lovingly placing them one at a time into each jar. Ahh, so wonderful.
On to Manzanilla! The Olives also say 'Manzanilla' on the jar. Since I really don't know what that means, (but I will as soon as I look it up) what immediately came to mind was: Vanilla man godzilla thing.
Or maybe a Vanilla Man wafer.
Actual meaning: The Manzanillas are smaller than the Queen olives. The size in which the Manzanilla olives are classified are as follows: 180/200, 200/220, 240/269, 280/300, and 340/360. These numbers represent the numbers of olives which are contained in a kilo (i.e. 240/260 means that a kilo will contain approximately 250 Manzanilla olives). Manzanilla olives are sold in the proportion of 80% stuffed with peppers, 10% without stone, and 10% with stone.
There is also a La Manzanilla in Mexico. Who knew?
I like Vanilla Man Godzilla thing better, or the man wafer. Woot!
Oh, and just to shatter another olive fantasy : "Place" packing is when the olives are arranged in layers in the jar, showing the pimiento stuffing. "Thrown" packing is as one would imagine, when the olives are put in the jars as they fall, then covered with brine and sealed
It sucks being wrong! My olives were just thrown in all willy nilly.
Amazingly enough, I really had nothing else to say. :p
