Olives are wonderful! I eat a few olives every single day. There is a Middle Eastern market in Dallas (Worldwide Foods on Greenville Avenue) that has about a dozen large vats of imported olives from Italy, Greece, Turkey, Morocco, Syria and Lebanon. The Syrian ones are not pitted, and they come in a reddish sauce of some sort, containing a few hot cayenne-type peppers. I especially like the ultra-salty little black ones from Morocco, the "oil-cured" olives. Rob