Pitted Country Olive Mix

As some mentioned, these are salty. I buy a lot of olives, some tell me I buy too many, and you can find a lot of variety in packages of olives, such as if they're in brine or red wine vinegar or olive oil. There is a kind called Jubilee Mix that I get at Aldi which is in oil and not salty. Delallo is good, too. That being said, I love these and will buy them again. When you compare the price per ounce to the small jars and packages I usually get, it's a good deal, and I thought they tasted very good. In fact, I just ordered the Roland baby kalamata olives that were also 4lbs 6 oz. In short, good variety of olives and textures, good flavor, pretty good deal if you already buy a lot of olives to snack on anyway. Edited to add a photo of what it looks like when you put the whole thing into deli/soup containers, which I recommend doing in hot weather so they don't get moldy or discolored. That way they are easy to get out and fit in the fridge nicely.

I'm no olive connoisseur, but I've been buying these on and off for years and it's a good value in bulk Greek olives. They do have some herb leaf and stem parts floating in the brine, but hey, it says "Country" in the title, so what do you expect? This isn't the fancy city mix! The olives themselves are excellent, and also some pimento and garlic cloves included. I've had a container over a year unfinished and I just shake up the brine well before taking anymore out. I scoop about a quart of the olives out of the container with a strainer spoon, then rinse the brine off and add water to the top of the olives in another container. By the next day the salt content is about right. Otherwise way too salty for regular use. An added bonus is using the brine to add some salt and flavor to homemade hummus and soups! It comes in a large, wide mouth plastic container, which makes it easy to get the olives without a mess, and when they are finished, you have a sturdy air and water tight container for other things.

They were kind of too salty so I poured off the brine, filled it back up with plain water and shook it up then let it soak for awhile. Then I dumped that water off and refilled it, with plain water again added more garlic, red pepper flakes, whole fresh lemon, peel and all, and some olive oil. It’s absolutely perfect now. Very yummy!!!

Delightful ! After you figure out how to get the baffle plate out of the jar .

I have purchased the Roland foods kalmata olives before and they were quite good. So I decided to purchase the mixed olives. These are pitted, but a lot of them are very cut up. These are not good for our presentation. My bigger proble is that the package arrived with dried brown brine around the top and in the threads of the screw off lid? As I removed everything I do believe the olives were sealed) they must have added nitrogen or something to the container because the bottom was bulged when I got it. When I open the container, the bulge on the bottom went away. I was fully expecting to find that the food was rotten, but it was not. However, the flavor is disgusting and these are salty beyond any food I’ve ever had in my life, and I was raised in the south and we salt everything. Since I do have 4 lbs. 6 oz. of these, I might try soaking in some water or something to salvage some of them, these are just totally inedible and nasty.

This review is for the second barrel of olives we received, the first earned 5 stars. This batch was excessively salty. So salty I rinsed them and that barely helped. Currently testing how long I have to soak them in water to make them more palatable. I'd order again as they are good quality and the first batch had a perfect salt content.

We purchased these after being served them during a tasting at a local winery. We enjoyed them so much that we asked the person running the catering what brand they were. For those reviewers complaining about their saltiness, they are exactly the right level of saltiness for this style of olive and are directly comparable to those in the olive bar at high-end grocers.

Very tasty!