Olive you too

For a number of years, the list of foods I didn't like was small but unyielding: Canned tuna, olives, yogurt.

But for some reason I'm slowly coming around, on everything but the canned tuna, at least.

A few weeks back was the first time I ever had a craving for olives. The conversation with Mrs. N-B went like this.

Me: I could really go for an olive.
Mrs. N-B: Do you want the olive or the martini that comes with it?

Zing.

I sure picked a good time to start liking them, too, since they figure prominently in the Catalan cuisine we had in Spain last week.