SC - de-pitting olives?

[Stefan li Rous]

Ras replied to my question with: 
> stefan at texas.net writes:
> << I then proceeded to try to cut the olives off the seeds. Is there some
>  trick to this??? >>
> 
> Yes. Simply lightly mash them with the flat of a knife and remove the olive 
> bits.

"olive bits"? But you said "lightly mash them" so I assume you are not
hitting it hard enough to pulverize or break the seed. Are there some
olives which have more than one seed? Or by bits, do you mean remove
the resulting, multiple pieces of olive fruit?

When I tried to squish the seed out, the result was not the firm result
I was expecting, but from Admantius' comments the olive halves and such
in the jars are not ripe olives. When I tried to cut the olive off the
pieces were small and left chunks behind on the seed. I guess the latter
will improve as I gain more skill and my expectation of what the
resulting 
olive product should be look like is changing as I read the comments here.

I think the olives I've got are the medium to small ones.

Thank you to everyone who has answered my question.

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THLord  Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
Mark S. Harris             Austin, Texas         stefan at texas.net
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