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- From: billb@abekas.com ( Bill Batty)
- Subject: Re: Can I eat the olives from our tree?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.190148.28585@abekas.com>
- Organization: Abekas Video Systems Inc., Redwood City, California.
- References: <1993Jan2.031630.17632@netcom.com>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 19:01:48 GMT
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- kehoe@netcom.com (Thomas David Kehoe) writes:
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-
- >I recently moved here and don't know much about
- >olive trees. However, I noticed that a tree in
- >our yard is covered with black olives that look
- >perfectly ripe. Can I just eat them? I've
- >never seen fresh olives for sale, so I assume
- >so kind of processing is needed...
- >--
-
- Good assumption. I seem to remember from somewhere a while
- back that unprocessed olives are mildly poisonous. I'm
- not sure of the specifics of processing.
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- Bill Batty
- Abekas Video Systems Inc. NET: abekas!billb@pyramid.com
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