Job Hazards They Never Tell You About, #253

[nickless]

FYI -

If a very sweet Chinese girl offers you something called a "Sweet Licorice Olive"? For the love of all that's holy, SAY NO.

*off to brush my teeth*

*again*

Comments

[tarzanic]

What did it taste like? I'm not a fan of olives, but love licorice, especially the salty kind that many people here don't like.

[nickless]

It tasted like neither an olive nor licorice. Nor much of anything else I can readily identify. It wasn't even salty. I'm wondering if in the translation, "candied" gets translated to "licorice".

I couldn't find much online that actually explained what it was, other than it might start out as a white olive, but I did find a very amusing record of a taste-testing session:

Licorice Olives

Liz: I love olives. I like them flavored with garlic.

Michael K: (moving to other end of room) but do you like them flavored with licorice?

James: (moving away also) The smell. It scares me.

Michael K: It smells just like pickled olives. It's just just that I was in a candy frame of mind, and you know, you smell pickled olives.

Michael C: How do you get an olive this hard?

Nina: Is there a pit in it?

James: Licking the surface isn't that bad.

Nina: It tastes like mold.

James: It's hard to eat these things. It's so --

Michael K: (unintelligible cry of horror)

James: Whoa. Who thought of this? This had to be an industrial accident.

Liz: