Who would have guessed that Spanish green olives have been imported into the United States for at least a hundred year? And, who would have guessed that there was a trade association promoting those imported olives?
1922 Spanish Green Olives Advertisement
A Hundred Years Ago 
Olives all day long. I remember my Mom made egg salad with olives in it for my school lunch.
Now that you mention it, I also remember olives in egg salad when I was a child.
I agree with the entire ad!
In some ways, it’s surprising how modern this ad seems.
Absolutely! At every fancy meal, every holiday, there HAD to be olives on the table. And the tradition continues with me and my family. Though we keep olives on hand because we put them in nearly everything – salads, omelets, spaghetti sauce…
When I was a child, we also had olives at holiday meals. My mother had a small cut-glass dish that we always put them in.
This is very interesting, thank you for sharing. Whole green olives are one of my favorites!!
Green olives are tasty.
Oh yes, for every fancy meal and I have inherited numerous cut and pressed glass pickle/olive trays for just such occasions. Hated them until I was an adult though and now I like black olives but love green ones! Sliced black one in a can however…
My mother also had some glass pickle/olive/celery/carrot dishes. I have one of them and sometimes put celery or carrot sticks in it for holiday meals. When I use it now, it always feels like it is somehow connects with family meals from days gone by.
That was interesting, even to a non-lover of green olives.
I think that green olives are something people either really like or really dislike, and there isn’t much in between
I didn’t realize they knew that long ago that olive oil was good for us!
I also was surprised that people (or at least the the companies that imported olives) knew about the health benefits a hundred years ago.
My siblings and I stole them at parties (the only time they appeared!). We especially liked the red pimento inside each one.
The red pimentos are the best part of olives.
Too true.