EYE!, or, What I Like about Hallowe'en

[6_bleen_7]

The word eye has to be one of the funniest words in the English language. Especially when it's said all by itself: "EYE!"

I love stuffed Spanish olives. Piquant, salty, pimento-stuffed-what’s there not to enjoy? Even as a little kid, I adored them, and green olives are not the kind of thing you’d expect to tempt a rugrat, let alone a famously

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[chillyrodent]

Your counter-prank calls to mind Gary Larson's Floating Head of Death. Nicely-played.

[6_bleen_7]

Thanks! Heh! I'd forgotten about that Far Side comic. It reminds me of one I really adore: The Acme Wingbaby™ for keeping kids in airplanes quiet.

[6_bleen_7]

Heh-heh-I totally forgot about that icon!

Kalamata olives are slightly different since they still have the seeds in (usually). I might not have gone for that when I was little.

[stfg]

I just recently bought some green olives stuffed with garlic cloves as food for work. They were great. I'm trying to remember if I saw onion or almond stuffed olives when I bought those, and can't.

[chillyrodent]

I have recently eaten almond-stuffed green olives, so I can vouch for their existence.

[6_bleen_7]

Those were my second favorite, after the pimento. The onion-stuffed ones were the most ocular in appearance (and in fact, the lens of the eye is layered somewhat like an onion), but the onion fought too much with the surrounding olive for flavor domination.

[6_bleen_7]

Yeah, garlic olives-I've seen those recently, too. They sound really good, though I assume the garlic has been pickled or otherwise attenuated, else on chewing one, smoke would issue from my ears and every vampire on the continent would fly overseas.