Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Fear of not having enough olives

I must have this. I was making dinner tonight and when I looked in my pantry, I saw 5 cans of black olives. I've been known to have more than that in my pantry. I do the same thing with chicken broth. I googled to see if there is some sort of phobia related to this, but couldn't find any. Guess that's a good thing. I did look up the definition, did you know about 4 and 5? I think they are just weird. I do know I do not wish to have the adjective of olive.

olive >noun 1 a small oval fruit with a hard stone and bitter flesh, green when unripe and bluish black when ripe. 2 the small evergreen tree which yields this fruit. 3 (also olive green) a grayish-green color like that of an unripe olive. 4 a slice of beef or veal made into a roll with stuffing inside and stewed. 5 a metal ring or fitting tightened under a threaded nut to form a seal. >adjective (of a person's complexion) yellowish brown; sallow. -ORIGIN Latin oliva, from Greek elaion 'oil'.

1 comment:

pammycakes said...

hey what's wrong with olive skin??? my aubrey has an olive complexion and she is beautiful!!
i didn't know that it was unripe when it was green.......and i thought the metal ring under a bolt was a washer not an olive..
and popeye's wife is olive!! and a movie star just named her daughter olive......and...olive you!!! xo