I guess I was imprecise because I almost never see "black" black olives that haven’t been colored. What I meant by black olives were Kalamata olives [0] which a

I guess I was imprecise because I almost never see "black" black olives that haven’t been colored. What I meant by black olives were Kalamata olives [0] which are a different variety with a very distinct taste. While I guess they technically exist in other colors like green, they aren’t edible in green ;) [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalamata_olive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalamata_olive