How can you people drink martinis without olives? My goodness.

Cosmos = no olives. (And also, not a real martini, I know. But you drink it in a martini glass.) Everything else tastes too much like rubbing alcohol for me to get down.

Sour apple pucker, bay-bee!

Mmm. Nummy.

Oh, I see. I've a stalwart palate able to enjoy the complexities of a nice Bombay Sapphire gin and two or three olives to chase it with. Mmmm. Herby. That means more of those pretty fruity drinks for you lot, then.

How about a vanilla vodka martini with a frozen blueberry and a sugared glass? That's nice too.

It's a deal. How about the pickles? You using those?

Yes! Especially my new discovery, Ba-Tampte half-sour kosher pickles.

And I want a dirty martini.

t off to lunch

How about a vanilla vodka martini with a frozen blueberry and a sugared glass? That's nice too

I had one of these in Portland- they called it a cake martini. It was like a pretty glass of rubbing alcohol with a pleasant vanilla aftertaste.

I don't like dirty martinis, strangely enough; I like my vodka diluted with tonic or cranberry. But I'm told I make a damn fine one.

You can have the radishes; I'll keep the olives and tomatoes. And I love capers so much; they squeak in your teeth. I like the giant ones.

Grilled garlic bagel with cream cheese, lox and capers. That's what I want.

All your olives and cilantro are belong to me. Also yogurt, tomatoes, capers, and assorted other foodstuffs that the crazy, wrongheaded, and allergic will not touch.

Olive loaf is basically bologna with olives scattered through the meat.

Olive salad is more of just chopped up olives.

I will trade my tomatoes and radishes for anyone's olives and pickles. Unless the tomatoes are in sauce form, in which case they are my precious, yesss.

Just doing my bit for the economy.

Jess, will you share your cilantro, yogurt and tomatoes with me? We can add some cukes and make an interesting variation on a Greek salad.

I love cilantro, like capers, don't like tomatoes or cucumbers. I live black olives.

Also Deb can keep the yogurt since I don't like that.

Except for the yogurt I had at the Leabonese restaurant at the F2F. That was fantastic.

Liver-draining drink- manhattan, up with bitters. Comes with a marichino cherry! Yum!

Adore yogurt and all the things it can do.

Olives- hated them for a long time but now I like them. They are salty and delicious. Mushrooms and fish are other new things I used to hate but now like a lot.

I still don't care for raw tomatos in salad, or banannas.