| | |  | Olives | Home » » » » Roland Pitted Greek Country Olive, 4lb 6oz Dry Weight unit | | | | | | | Description: | | Roland Greek Olive Mix is a mix of Kalamata, Black and Green Roland Olives from Greece this is a 2 kilogram package and it is available in kegs The olives in this product are pitted and ready to use, flavored with herbs and spices | | | Features: | |
• One 70 ounce unit
• Comes in a re-sealable plastic container
• Retain a longer shelf-life by being kept cool after opening
• Roland Greek Olive Mix are used in salads, on appetizer plates or alone They can be used in preparing tapas, or served with feta cheese and Roland Extra Virgin Olive Oil
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Weight:
| 70.0 Ounces | | Package Length:
| 9.7 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.9 inches | | Package Height:
| 5.7 inches | | Package Weight:
| 7.8 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 6 reviews |
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9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
 great olive mix and not salty if you soak emAug 28, 2009
By Roger Theriault
These are delicious olives and a nice mixture of different sizes and types. And a great deal for a pitted olive mix.
Another reviewer said they were too salty, but that might be true if you eat them straight out of the tub. They are packed in a salt brine for preservation. That's easy to deal with - before I ordered these, I found several web sites with recommendations to soak brined olives to remove the salty taste, and it worked!
I scooped a few cups out of the bucket and rinsed them in cold water and then soaked them in fresh cold water in the fridge overnight in a resealable container. Then I drained them and added a bit of red wine vinegar and some olive oil, gave the container a good shake, and put them back in the fridge. The result - very mild slightly spiced and very delicious olives. (Don't soak the whole tub - the storage life is supposedly reduced when you remove the salt)
The green ones are big and nice and crunchy, the smaller kalamata and black olives a bit softer. There are herbs and a few garlic cloves and red pepper rings in the mix but only enough to flavor without overpowering the olive taste - I find some supermarket mixes can be a bit too spicy, these are perfect.
If you order these, have them shipped separately, because the container will likely leak and Amazon seems oblivious to that (they do stick the tub in a bag, and mine only leaked a few tablespoons worth of brine which stayed in the bag).
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Be Sure You Know What Greek Country 'Style' MeansOct 08, 2011
By Allen J. Michielsen
I've gotten a number of different Roland Olive products and they are restaurant quality, good value for the money. Actually, the same is probably true for the Greek Country style. I wasn't sure exactly what to expect but the price was pretty attractive. At least to Roland, Greek Country means the blend of olives includes a bunch of tiny sticks/branches and 'Greek' seasoning which wasn't spared in the least. I hate picking the stems & branches off and out of the pitted olives - and the spices both overwhelm (IMHO) the natural flavor of the olives and leave a aftertaste in my mouth. I like the blend of different sizes and types of ripe and unripe olives - and that it's pitted. I'd suggest getting this along with a container of Roland Kalamata Olives. You can save the liquid from the Kalamata container - then do a quick wash and shake of the Greek Country Olives then drop them in the Kalamata liquid. This will remove most of the 'extra' branch material - and in a week or so - the 'over' seasoning will mellow out quite a bit. If you're good with the intensity of the Greek Spicing, you could probably just wash and shake the olives & container and filter the liquid to remove just the stem materials.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Mediocre OlivesJan 18, 2012
By CH
These olives are just ok. The large green olives are nice tasty and firm but the rest of the olives are very mushy. They are salty but I like them that way and as others have said you can soak them in water or oil to decrease the saltiness.
Olive loverApr 20, 2012
By Anonymous
We love olives (why else would I buy 4 pounds at a time?) We put them in all kinds of dishes, but my favorite is to roast them. These aren't the best-looking olives, and some are rather mushy, but roasting them helps that. They are salty, which is intensified with roasting, so some folks might not care for them. All in all, though, I like them well enough to have a standing order every few months.
0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Disgusting and NOT PITTEDNov 20, 2011
By Deborah M. Donnison
"Deb"
This says the olives are pitted...they are NOT PITTED. And they have the most disgusting mixture of oil and spices and the olives are WAY overly salted. I love salt, but these were unedible. I have sense drained all the juice off of them and I have refilled the keg with filtered water and a little vinegar, in hope to leach some of the salt and yuk taste out of the olives. In the past,I have purchased Roland Kalamata's in the keg and really enjoyed them, but these are a big disapointment, expecially due to the cost. I this had been a little jar of olives, then I would have just thrown them away. But I really hate to waste the money, so I am trying to repair the damage done by Roland. I will let you know if my "clean up" of the olives helped. And the fact that they are not pitted will hinder my clean up.
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