Just before the holidays I was shopping for bloody mary items and came across two items in the condiment aisle of Cub: hot pickled Brussels sprouts and Santa Barbara Olive Co. Habanero Stuffed Olives. While the hot pickled Brussels sprouts were a big disappointment, both in flavor and heat, the hand-stuffed habanero olives were a big winner.
Packaged in 5oz jars and jam packed with big olives, I figured these would be mildly warm but I quite was pleased to find a spicy brine and some seriously hot habanero pieces, with seeds at times, stuffed into each of the olives in the jar. With only around 15 or 16 olives to a jar, the biggest downside to these are the price. While I’ve found them as low as $4.50 and as high as $7.50 at the various local Cubs, this is a bit steep and I’m seriously considering doing my own version at home.
If you’re going looking yourself for these, they’re usually buried behind Santa Barbara’s other offerings which I haven’t tried and require some digging to locate. While this may due to lack of popularity due to the high heat of the habaneros it may also be simply due to chiliheads finding them and buying up as many as they can afford ;)
While one is tolerable to eat, once you eat a second the spicy brine and habanero pepper itself leaves you with a long lasting and salty burn that led me to note on an Instagram photo after finishing the first jar I bought in a day that these were definitely “The Real Deal”. If you’re into stuffed olives and spice these should definitely be on your shopping list for your next trip to the store. These definitely take a spicy bloody mary (Devil’s Spit mix, homemade dried ghost pepper flakes, Frank’s, horseradish, habanero olives, etc) to the next level and will certainly get your day off right! :)
What do you normally add to your bloody marys? Do you eat olives as a snack like I do? What kind of olives do you like best (automatic permanent ban to anyone who admits to eating black olives out of a can) and what do you like them to be stuffed with? Have you ever stuffed your own olives? Would you recommend that to someone else? Whatever you have to say about Santa Barbara Olive Co’s Hand-stuffed Habanero Olives go ahead and comment on as I’d love to hear what you have to say.
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January 11th, 2012 at 7:59 am
I have had these before and I agree that they are quite tasty. I often use them when making a sort of fun snack when people ask me to bring food to their house.
I mix cheddar cheese and butter together and flour and cayenne pepper in another bowl. Combine the two to make a dough and wrap the dough around the olives that have been patted dry. Throw them in the oven for 15 minutes at 400 and you have a fantastic spicy breaded olive treat that is usually the first bowl to get emptied while the bbq meatballs and the prepackaged shrimp cocktails go unnoticed.
I suggest you give it a try, it is super easy. I usually go with two or 3 different olives since not everyone wants the spice.
January 11th, 2012 at 8:40 am
Best stuffed olives I have ever had are blue cheese stuffed from Aldi.
They are only $3 for a 7 oz Jar. I thought the idea of them would be gross at first but after eating a jar or two, I am hooked on the taste.
January 11th, 2012 at 9:27 am
I’m with 2b on this one. (Aldi’s merchandise can be surprisingly good, and is inexpensive.) I lose the flavor of what I’m eating if everything is too spicy. I do like some heat with some dishes, but I couldn’t eat like Bill does.
January 11th, 2012 at 9:28 am
Twoboot,
I was in Aldi the other day and missed the olives however I was wondering if you knew off the top of your head what else they have them stuffed with (while I like blue cheese stuffed olives, I like pepper-stuffed ones better).
January 11th, 2012 at 9:38 am
My favorite olives are ‘Miss Scarlett’s Drunken Olives’. They are stuffed with Jalapeño and come soaked in dry vermouth. They are hard to find as they are all packed by hand and a bit spendy but are worth every penny to me. I found my last jar in a gift shop in an old converted to mall warehouse in Duluth. It was a large jar, maybe 10 or 12 ounces for $9.99.
January 11th, 2012 at 9:39 am
They only come in Blue cheese or Jalapeno. Of course they are made for and distributed by Aldi so any brand information is irrelevant.
January 11th, 2012 at 9:42 am
I’ll be trying lefty’s recipe out. Maybe I’ll pick some of those up due to the cheap price. Thanks for the suggestion!
January 11th, 2012 at 12:54 pm
Wow, I am now truly amazed.
January 11th, 2012 at 12:58 pm
At what?
January 11th, 2012 at 1:24 pm
Twoboot has become a functioning member of society?
January 11th, 2012 at 1:27 pm
Chad, let us not forget that it takes time for people to settle into a rhythm and get to know the community before they stop being stupid. I am always reminded that it took until comment 600+ for us to accept lefty and now look at him!
Still annoying but we love him anyway. Twoboot learned faster or penned fewer comments, I’m not sure which ;)
January 11th, 2012 at 1:43 pm
I thumbed that up because I am still laughing. Bastard.
January 11th, 2012 at 1:51 pm
Whats really funny is I almost pointed out how idiotic some of the things lefty first said were and was going to compare that to Twoboot.
January 11th, 2012 at 2:15 pm
I don’t think I ever said anything stupid, except maybe that comment about thrift stores, but I was drunk.
January 11th, 2012 at 2:24 pm
Auto Car
January 11th, 2012 at 2:32 pm
No way.
Chad. I will bet you dinner at the restaurant of the winner’s choice in 2022 that auto-car technology is widely being recognized as the future for our country and for this world to relieve the burdens of traffic congestion.
January 11th, 2012 at 3:19 pm
So, you are saying that IN the future auto car technology will be recognized AS the future?
January 11th, 2012 at 3:27 pm
In 2012. Or do you want to push things out to 2040 when all major roads in our country will require that all vehicles on them must have auto-cars.
I predict it is possible there will still be some non adapters that will be allowed to use secondary roads by that date, but I am hoping we will have taxed them into submission by then.
January 11th, 2012 at 4:09 pm
I am not sure, but I think its 2012 now. And the only person I know who talks about the Auto Car is you.
You really think it will be auto car and not personal hover craft, or personal jet packs, or the segway!?!
For what its worth I had 4 grey screen lock ups on my work computer today. I am not sure I am ready to trust my life to a computer and rely on it to drive my car at 60 miles per hour 6 inches from other two ton objects moving 60 miles an hour in the other direction. Although, I guess it cant be worse than the idiots that are legally given drivers licenses every day.
January 11th, 2012 at 5:40 pm
I meant to say 2022. So do we have a bet?
January 11th, 2012 at 7:01 pm
hello, can anyone tell me what the fuck the previous 5-6 posts have to do with the price of olives at cub? or does lefty just want to run his posting numbers up on company time:)
bb
January 11th, 2012 at 7:04 pm
bb, and Chad.
January 11th, 2012 at 9:21 pm
All I know is that doofus on the MNPass thread has the current reign as Lazy Lightning King Dunderhead.
January 12th, 2012 at 11:45 am
Wow, now MSPD and I agree on something.
January 14th, 2012 at 1:01 am
On the topic of the Habanero olives…
Santa Barbara Olive company makes some darned good olive products. I used to sell a ton of them when I ran Chile Trader’s at the Mall of America.
The habanero ones are very good… slow burn, good brine, usully fairly crisp chile in them.
A couple more to try when you can find them are the jalapeno and garlic stuffed olives (a slice of jalapeno and a half clove of garlic in each olive) and the Santa Barbara Olive Co chunky olive salsa – a garlic infused salsa with slices of green and ripe olive in them. It is amazing.
The only olive that I have ever found of higher quality (prepackaged and in a jar) are Ms Scarlett’s Drunken Hot Bullets – A green olive with a slice of Jalapeno and a Garlic clove marinated in vermouth. They are AMAZING!
Since a jar of the santa barbara olive co hab. olives usually goes for about 6.95 – 7.95 at a specialty foods store, how much did you find yours for (and at which Cub Bill)?
January 14th, 2012 at 8:06 am
Anywhere between $4.something and $6.75. They’re at all the Cub’s I’ve visited recently (Burnsville, Lakeville/Dodd/Cedar, and AV).
January 14th, 2012 at 5:36 pm
I don’t eat them out of a can, that is uncivilized. I put one black olive on each finger, THEN I eat them.
January 14th, 2012 at 6:03 pm
Post of the day Mrs. Marcos! Early candidate for comment of the year 2012
February 12th, 2012 at 7:51 am
Chad,
Important Auto-car article today. Looks like General Motors has already predicted this to be the future of cars as early as 2020, two years earlier than my expectation. Nice job not taking the bet.
http://editorial.autos.msn.com/blogs/autosblogpost.aspx?post=6b76b0eb-dcb9-4cd5-8733-cd45446caee8?icid=autos_2342
February 13th, 2012 at 5:58 pm
First, its not an article, its an editorial, which is not really the same thing at all. Its one persons opinion. However, it is very interesting that Google is the driving force, and they certainly have the capital to make this a reality. I am very curious what the business model they have for this is.
I have said it before. Googleis taking over the world.
February 13th, 2012 at 7:10 pm
Yes, but the editorial is about the insurance industry. The comments about Auto-Car technology are facts cited in the editorial.
Someday when you are riding around in your Auto-Car in 2020, your wife will say to you, “Who would have ever seen this coming?” You can give her a sly smile and say, “You would be surprised.”
February 14th, 2012 at 12:58 am
I like the auto-car idea. You do realize we have them today though right? It’s still rudimentary, in its infancy phase..and I can’t understand how 16 year old kids can afford them but there they are, cruising down the freeway with two hands tapping away on their phones, screen in front of their faces.
Occasionally the technology hiccups, and their car will suddenly accelerate, decelerate or weave around. Needs work, but there it is.
I gotta get me one!
February 14th, 2012 at 8:15 am
Seppuku,
I am well aware of the current fleet of Google cars driving around our nation with nary a problem. I was not aware that we had 16 year olds that could buy them though. Are you being facetious?
It will be like any new technology, the Mercedes, Audi, Caddy high end cars will have it first then the technology will trickle down to every car over 3-5 years. No different than power steering was once a luxury, or even anti-lock brakes or air bags.
February 14th, 2012 at 3:22 pm
Yeah i was..i actually forgot about those google cars.
I wasn’t about auto-cars though. I like to make fun of them from time to time but looking at the advances cars are introduced with each year, its no stretch to believe in the future I can play Madden 2022 on my windshield HUD while “driving” to work.
February 21st, 2012 at 9:18 am
Another update on the auto-cars for everyone. Now our cars are going to have the ability to interact with each other, which is an important part of how this is all going to work.
Seriously, if our government spent 10% of the money they spend on roads on developing this concept, they would need to spend 50% less on roads.
http://money.cnn.com/2012/02/21/autos/vehicle_communication_v2v/index.htm?source=cnn_bin
Who knew the stuffed olive thread would become the most important comment field on this whole website?
February 21st, 2012 at 3:31 pm
It is a big day in the Auto-car world.
http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/21/10460103-nevada-first-state-to-authorize-driverless-cars
February 23rd, 2012 at 7:30 pm
Lefty, your ” love links” are a fascination. Subconsciously, you appear to be saying that you want someone else or something else to drive your car for you. Now that IS spooky!!
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:42 pm
Why would that be spooky? I think it solves a lot of issues that we have with traffic in the long term. Embrace the Auto-Car Will.
February 26th, 2012 at 8:44 pm
How do you “spell” government control ? I forgot you all so want to give up your DNA too.
February 28th, 2012 at 1:37 pm
I have given up my DNA in cars. The auto-car will make that even easier for all of us as long as you have shades.
May 8th, 2012 at 1:59 pm
The state of Nevada has now started issuing licenses for Auto Car testing. This article indicates that these wonders of modern technology will be commercially available in 3-5 years, much sooner than my original prediction.
Just think how great it will be to crack open that first Furious of the weekend right after you get in your car to go home from work on a Friday.
http://living.msn.com/life-inspired/the-daily-dose-blog-post?post=4da7969f-eb4e-45ad-972d-d552308dbc33
May 8th, 2012 at 2:01 pm
lefty, I really don’t see how they’d permit you to “drive” drunk. The law currently requires two passengers, one at the ready to take over control of the car in case the automated system fails. With the revenue that DUI creates and the logistics inherent with potential for failure, I would be willing to bet that you’d still have to be sober to passively operate an autocar.
May 8th, 2012 at 2:45 pm
Yeah, I was sort of joking around there, though it is quite likely that a fully realized auto car world of the future would probably no longer require the need for someone to jump in in case of failure, and thus happy hour in the car.
May 11th, 2012 at 1:43 pm
For lefty: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18012812
May 11th, 2012 at 4:23 pm
No Bill. That article is for all mankind.