A few months ago I bought a jar of Peruvian olives for me sister (who, unlike me, likes olives) at one of those remainder stores. I wasn't until I got home and looked closer at the label I realized that the olives had merely been dried, they had never been salted or cured (the label actually claimed that they did not need it since "our olives are of such fine quality that they should be enjoyed as they come off the tree") Actually the jar is still sitting there while we try and figure out what to do with it (I've looked up how to cure your own olives online, but all the recipes I have seen assume you are starting with fresh raw green olives (like they sell at some Italian supermarkets), not dried fully ripe ones (actually are fully ripe olives ever actually eaten, I thought that even the black kind was picked under ripe, and the black color came from the lye treatment). I suppose at some point well just pull them out, pit them, toss the fruit away, and send the pits on (someone on one of my other garden forums is trying to establish a seed grown olive grove)
Oh and my version of the trying story was my discovery that, even if (like me) you like the taste of horehound candy, that does NOT mean you can pull leaves off a horehound plant and chew them.
