I was having lunch once with a coworker at Olive Garden and he said that the Olive Garden chain of restaurants consumes 20% of the world’s black olive crop. I don’t know what made him think that was even remotely possible.
Amazing. That’s the kind of bullshit fact that sticks with you for a long time
Fun fact: “Black olives, though labeled as “ripe” on supermarket cans, actually aren’t: these, a California invention, are green olives that have been cured in an alkaline solution, and then treated with oxygen and an iron compound (ferrous gluconate) that turns their skins a shiny patent-leather black.”
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/olives–the-bitter-truth
What the fuck.
What in the goddamnolivefuckery did I just read … thx, I hate it.
(fascinating read tho, actual thx for sharing)
