This past Friday I was talking on the phone with Dwayne, one of the consultants with whom I work. He's in North Carolina. He said to me with great enthusiasm, "Mike, on Thanksgiving I'm going to be cracking out this raspberry-infused vodka I've been working on for a while, it's going to be great." To which I replied,

"Now I mean this with the utmost respect, the only thing I infuse my vodka with is a little bit of vermouth and some olives."

That got a chuckle, but he also brought up that he couldn't get any of the neato varieties of olives like bleu cheese and whatnot. I just get em at the grocery store. I looked on the jar of sun dried tomato stuffed olives in my fridge, and they are from the Santa Barbara Olive Company.

As it turns out, the Santa Barbara Olive Company has a website, and on this website there is an online store where you can get all sorts of varieties like sun dried tomato, garlic, jabanero, jalapeno jack, and on down the line, shipped right to your door. I sent an email to my work email just as a reminder to tell Dwayne. He will be pleased, and so will you, if you like olives.

 

This thread was really about olives. Wow.

 

better than the mayonnaise thread.

 

hahahasjdhfsjdfksjflsjfksjflksdjfkd :rofl:

 

Never had a martini myself.. any suggestions? Such as type of vodka / vermouth (sp?). Not sure about the whole olive sutuation, i only like them with other things, such as on a pizza.

anyway, martini people let me know whats good. As i would like to check it out.

btw, purple monkey dishwasher. That is all

 

Yeah. I actually know the family that owns it h: They participated in the fundraiser that my mother set up. Really cool people, and some of the better olives you can buy; among the top in the US in my opinion

 

Dude just so you know, a martini is made with gin.

A vodka martini is a permutation therof, and really the only acceptable one since all this other "martini" crap is a bastardization of the term just because it's a foofy girly drink shaken in a cocktail shaker and served in a cocktail glass.

If you want something easy and whatnot, a good introduction is the traditional Stoli martini which is 2 measures Stoli vodka and 1 measure of vermouth. Pour it over 1 olive and yer good to go, classic old skool vodka martini. A vodka martini is of course, distinct from an actual martini which is made with gin.

There is an increasing trend to assume that vodka is the prevailing and/or originating spirit upon which the martini is based. This is however, a complete fallacy based solely on the fact that all the foofy girly drinks that are passed off as "martinis" tend to be based upon the neutral-tasting vodka rather than gin.

I personally drink a martini that is 3 measures Bombay Sapphire gin and 1 measure Martini & Rossi extra dry vermouth, shaken with enough ice that the outside of the shaker frosts over, and poured into a chilled glass, over a couple of particularly good olives (for example the Santa Barbara sun dried tomato stuffed variety mentioned earlier).

 

No offense, Mike, but I can totally see you sipping your martini and watching "Sex in the City" with your girls and comparing show story to real-life.

 

mmm olives.

i miss the motherland.. =(

 

I can see you drinking a martini in a tuscan village.