Thank you for the welcome! And for those who are withholding judgment pending further information, commas are for clarity, olive and olive products are trauma-inducing (does anyone else remember olive loaf lunch meat?), and cilantro tastes like soap.

Eeexcellent. And welcome!

I like olives on their own, but otherwise I could abide with lcat and billytea's leanings.

edit: And I believe I've seen lcat's pixels before. I remember thinking something about library catalogs.

Mmmmmm, olives.

::hoards the olives to share with Connie and Laura::

::brings olive tapenade to share with the olive-lovers. delicious, delicious tapenade....::

I have a very important question, the answer to which may shake up my entire world view.

Is the tapenade made from black olives or not? Because TJ's has a green olive tapenade, and if that is the case, my whole perspective on the muffaletta is upended. Not definitionally, of course - no tapenade = no muffaletta. But whether I will ever eat one or not hangs in the balance.

My vegetarian muffaletta is just bread and olive tapenade then. I'm down with green or black. (giggling at all the evil side glances)

delicious, delicious tapenade

Mmmmmmmm.

In my experience, the olive salad is made of green olives. I'm not gonna say it has to be, though.

Well, that changes everything. I just assumed they were that scourge upon the earth, the black olive.