The Pimento -- the Quiet Friend Who Wears Glasses

Okay, y'all, I've been hanging onto an empty jar for awhile, waiting for some time to crop up to blog about this MOST AMAZING OLIVE. And now that I've downloaded the new Green Day, I feel the time is write to reveal that I'm leaving all my other Olive relationships for this one --

Ybarra Aceitunas Manzanilla verdes OR A green olive stuffed with Pimento.

Now, before you say, "Oh, Condiment Grrl, COME ON, those olives are everywhere. And salty and BORING." That's what I said to when I first viewed the jar, introduced to me by Mr. Mustard (and it was introduced to him by a good friend, another foodie, as available at the amazing Big John's PFI (Pacific Food Imports) in SODO). But, then the jar was opened and I tasted the olive.



OH MY GOODNESS!

It was kind of like in those ridiculous Chick movies where there's the silent friend with glasses who never says anything, but who swirls in in divine purple chiffon with no glasses (because glasses are ugly, right?) and leaves everyone gasping for air with his/her attractiveness, general desirabilty, and oddly detailed knowledge about erogenous zones.

These olives take the glasses off the misunderstood pimento. Until you've tasted these olives, you haven't really tasted pimentos. Honestly, I don't think I ever really understood what a real pimento tasted like before because most pimento stuffed olives are so so so so salty.

Not these, there's this wonderful rich flavor -- I can't really describe it and do it justice -- but, it's kind of peppery, kind of musky, and wonderful that imbues the olives. They're not overwhelmed with sodium. They exist in their own pimento-stuffed olive world -- glorious, green, red and perfect.



Anyway, here's a picture of a related jar. I couldn't find an exact one on the web:

Take out the picture of the garlic and mentally put in a lovely red pimento, looking oddly like a pair of very kissable lips, with or without glasses.

Enjoy!