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Re: Random Internet Misc

[(Anonymous)]

https://web.archive.org/web/20210316131232/https://www.biblicalnaturalhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/TheEvolutionOfTtheOlive.pdf

Ah, but you see - the size of an olive (and thus, of the egg, as olives are frequently measured in fractions of eggs) is in fact the subject of much religious debate. Historically, different religious authorities have proclaimed that an olive is 1/3 of an egg, or 1/2 of an egg, or 1/6 of an egg. Given that eggs and olives do not, in fact, follow those ratios today, we can only assume that eggs and olives have simply shrunk over time, as everything is prone to do the further we get from God.

Re: Random Internet Misc

[(Anonymous)]

(Their olives are 27mL! Those are some big olives.)

Re: Random Internet Misc

[(Anonymous)]

I assume eggs have grown over time, with selective breeding. Olives might have shrunk for a similar reason; iirc small fruit generally taste better because they contain less water? I assume that principle extends to olives. Though if not enough people know it, olives might have grown, instead, because big ones would look impressive on a market stall.

But I also picture people, thousands of years back, hearing the authorities and just being like "wtf an olive isn't half the size of an egg" and just going by eye for their recipes anyway.