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Artichoke hearts. Straight from the jar with a fork. Yum.

Pimento olives, chopped fine and mashed into cream cheese, spread on pumpernickel (bread, bagel, etc).

Capers can fuck off entirely.

You just made a list of many of the things I truly hate, food wise, lol. I guess sun-dried tomatoes are okay? 😅

Pickled beets. They're good until you forget you ate them

Round here we call cornichons “sweet gherkins” and they’re pretty good

Also: At one point you put black olives on your fingertips for the last time and you didn’t know it.

Pickles are my favorite, especially dill spears. I've also enjoyed capers on top of grilled salmon with (I think) a beurre blanc sauce. Kalamata olives on pizza is really good too.

Green olives. Preferably stuffed with garlic.

I casually snack on cornichons straight out of the jar, or else with ham and camembert on a French baguette. In that case I'll slice them lengthwise just so they don't roll off.

Pickles are definitely my favorite on that list. My favorite is probably zesty bread and butter, but I also love dill. Black olives are alright. Most pickled veg are pretty good. Pickled jalapenos are good, but I much prefer fresh ones.

Every one is an s tier food. I fucking love olives and pickles.

Salt-fermented pickles. Mmmmm.

But really, I love all this stuff.

Umeboshi

Pickled asparagus and pepperoncinis.

I make my own kimchi, sauerkraut, and various Chinese fermented vegetables.

I make what I call a "dirty margarita." Jalapeño stuffed olives are a must.

In a salad, kalamata or dried black olives.

All have their place, but canned black olives tap into childhood nostalgia. Putting an olive on each finger and eating them one at a time.

I'm a fan of so many pickled and fermented things. It'd be a long list to answer.

I much prefer lacto-fermented foods over vinegar-pickled.

Peppers, both sweet and hot? Love 'em, especially fire roasted. Sun dried tomatoes? Hell yeah, great to cook with.

Soak something in vinegar though? Yeah, nah, I'm all set, thank you very much.

I love all of these, but if I could only ever live with one it would be capers.

Pickles a close second. My FIL has an amazing recipe for tuna salad: three ripe avocado, three tins of tuna drained and pressed for minimum moisture, three teaspoon mayo and six small pickles finely chopped. (3 tsp mayo is about 1tbsp, but i wrote it like that so you can adjust to size needed 1:1:1:2)

2, 6 and 8 is fine.

Olives and capers can fuck right off!

Marinated sun-dried tomatoes & garlic. I could eat that forever.

Everything on this list is my favorite, basically

Canned black olives are my favorite, followed by the pickle chips, and then regular pickles, which I'm not sure if funny-name-I've-never-seen-before is or if those are the weird sweet ones.

Canned black olives are the only olives I really enjoy, but I haven't had a green olive since I was a kid and now I am not sure if the olive was gross or if it was just the pimento I hated.

But dill pickles (gherkins) are a top tier snack and condiment.

4 and 5. I really dislike pickles. It's strange because they're both vegetables in pickled water

I am this and have no regrets

4,5,6 & 8. Olives in a salad, pickles on a sandwich and artichoke on a pizza

I like them all haha.

Pickles might be my favorite though.

4. In a martini
5. Off of fingertips (though my fingers are big enough that I just have to eat them out of the can)

Jalapeños. I like them on everything from nachos to burgers, but I vastly prefer fresh to pickled.

Sauerkraut. Only on a Reuben.

In order: 8 (sans sauerkraut & pickled veggies), 1, 7, 3, 5, 4, 6, 2.

Doritos

None of this sounds good

marinated garlic cloves, olives stuffed with almonds, mini peppers with cream cheese

also, capers and cornichons have no business being food.

Sweet gherkin, I guess?
I'm not exactly sure what the category is

I like all of these except capers. I eat olives and pickles regularly.

Can’t forget the pickled okra!

Chupadedos olives

Pickles will never voluntarily touch my plate, and when they do I push my plate to the nearest pickle person so I don’t have to remove it myself and get contaminated with the vinegar.

Sun dried tomatoes and the occasional kalamata olive I can tolerate. Artichoke hearts and roasted bell peppers are awesome.