I was eating some olives and I almost broke my teeth because there was a whole entire seed inside of one of the olives.
I wonder–if I planted it, would it grow?
Try it.
(If it does, it could outlive you by a couple thousand years.)
Oh…do they really live that long? 
Here you go Cran,
Oh…thanks. 
It’s too cold here to grow them outdoors, but I know somebody who has or has had a grapefruit tree that they grow in a pot and bring in every winter…
Whole (unpitted) olives taste so much better than pitted ones. You have good taste my friend! Try some whole queen olives if you really want the good stuff. Most people have never tried whole olives, and yes it can be quite a shock when you bite down on that huge seed.
cries tears of happiness
Nobody has ever told me that before!
weep, weep
Then there is Olive Oyl
The official Popeye home page:
http://www.popeye-n-olive.com/olive.html
MarkB
She was anorexic before it was popular.
Is a “queen olive” a gay olive that dresses flamboyantly?
…Rimshot!
I enjoy all types of olives. My parents would never let me eat a lot when I was a kid so now I’ll sit and eat a whole jar in my insatiable lust for olive goodness.
My wife doesn’t like any olives so I never get to put them in sauces or stuff. Why oh why am I so tormented???
Me, too. 
my two boys and I fight over green olives with pits!!
And I’ve gotten them jars for presents before, too.
Fly - you should have gotten up to Jungle Jim’s while you were here - they have an entire olive BAR there! Every type of olive, and flavor, imaginable.
Remind me at Caesar Creek to give you directions to Jungle Jim’s.
Missy
Extra virgin, no doubt…
Cran-- I doubt the pit would germinate since all edible olives have been cured in one way or another. If you DO get one to germinate, let it grow for a couple of hundred years, then send me some of the wood. It’s one of my favorite whistle timbers: smells fabulous when you work it and keeps the aroma for a long time.
Ok, I’ll send you the wood.
As a fellow fan of the olive, allow me to share with you my favorite…er…pit stop along I-5:
Redwolf
Brewerpaul wrote
Extra virgin, no doubt…
Then how does Swee’pea fit in then?
Sweet pea is Jesus?
Cranberry wrote:
Sweet pea is Jesus?
Swee’ Pea: The infant has a pivotal role in Segar’s cosmology. Swee’ Pea’s origins are unclear. He is (apparently) not the child of either Popeye or Olive Oyle, yet the two are de facto parents of Swee’ Pea. If we accept that Popeye and Olive are the parents, then the best explanation would be a virgin birth, i.e.: Jesus. Thus Swee’ Pea is for Segar a Christ figure.
Questions still to be answered:
Can the heterodox interpretation be true? If Popeye is not the father of Swee’ Pea and is only the foster father, this makes him Joseph to Olive’s Mary. Still unresolved would be the identity of Swee’ Pea’s father
Is Popeye God? go here for the answer.
http://www.geocities.com/aquamarinemonster/peye.html#Swee
MarkB
That’s disturbing.
What’s more disturbing is that someone would even ask the question (“Is Popeye God?”) in the first place. I suspect that website was a “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle” moment (i.e., it’s creation involved lots of pizza and beer).