Do you like olives?  

I'm not a fan of the stuffed green olives. But I do love the Smoked Garlic Green Olives that have the seed still inside. Those are soo yummy!

I do like black olives from time to time.

The red thing inside of some green olives is called a pimento. Not sure what the heck a pimento is though... The seeds are pretty tough to get out, I usually just eat the olive off of the seed. LOL

I'm not a huge fan of olives. The only way I can tolerate then is if they're burried in cheese or sauce on a piece of pizza. xD

I mostly eat them on salads. I prefer black, I like green, too. The red thing is a pimento (a variety of a pepper). You can buy a pitter that is used for olives and/or cherries. They look like this http://www.organize.com/chandolpi.html and should be available at some supermarkets or kitchen stores. You can pit cherries with a paperclip, but I don't know if it would work with olives too. http://moonstarsandpaper....
Sorry I don't have any info for what to actually do with them. I haven't gotten real creative.

There is no olive I do not love and I use an olive pitter to take the seeds out or a cherry pitter, as they are often the same. Although "rubies" beat me to the first link, here is another:

http://www.amazon.com/s?i...

You can get nice ones for pennies on the dollar at eBay, though. Life is too short to live without tools!

I love the black olives. I just eat them out of the can sometimes, but I love adding them to a lot of other things as well. Such as my pizza, & my salids.

I like black olives. I like them plain out of the can. I like them on pizza, in enchiladas, spanish rice. Stuff like that. I do not like green olives. I just can't passed the taste of them and that icky red thing is a pimento. Machines take out olive seeds or you can eat around it I guess. You can't eat an olive straight off a tree either since they will make you sick.

I enjoy OLIVES,
On my Pizza, in a Green Salad or on a platter with Cheese, semi dried tomatoes, slices of thin cooked meats,pickled onions, dill or gerken (like little dill).
I think you are talking about stuffed olives with the red things inside them, Most times it's bell pepper/capsicum some times however they will stuff them with many things,like fish,onion and other vegetables. I think this is to give them some colour.

Vera5d,

What I did miss to say is that the Olives with pips/seeds in them can be removed by a Olive piper same as you do to remove pips from Cherries.
These are like a pair of pliers, one side has a little cup (with a hole in the centre of it) the olive sits in it and the other arm of the pliers hve a sort of finger.
When you close the pliers the finger pushes the pip through the hole.
There you have one olive no pip.

I am from Louisiana and we put olives in the potato salad. It gives it a whole new taste and really good. I like the black olives best. We always have plenty of both on hand. The green ones are good I like the salt taste. If you want the recipe for the potato salad them email me and i will send it.

I like olives...all different kinds...black, green, kalamata..
I've had green olives stuffed with pimento, garlic cloves, and cheese. I like black olives on salads but on pizza I only like green olives.
I love tapenade (olive spread)
* 3 cups whole, pitted olives
* 1/3 cup olive oil
* 2 cloves garlic

Place olives and garlic in a blender. Add olive oil in a stream while pureeing; process until mixture becomes a thick, but not to smooth paste.
Serve on bread, pita, or crackers or tossed with pasta, potatoes or rice. It can also be mixed together with cream cheese and/or sour cream for a great vegetable dip.