You can't deny the simple pleasures of a three-ingredient sandwich, like a , ham and cheese, or (with that third ingredient being the bread, of course). One particular three-ingredient sandwich has been on our mind lately, and that's the green olive and cream cheese sandwich. Sandwich blogger and TikTok creator Jim Behymer ( ), who's previously , posted a video about making one himself.
It's as simple as it sounds: Two slices of white bread spread with a thick swipe of cream cheese on each side with a nice big layer of chopped green olives in the middle. This makes for a sandwich that's both intriguing and polarizing, since not everyone's a fan of green olives — and we had to see if this sandwich was a good exercise in simplicity or if it's one that's destined to stay in quiet obscurity. The kind of green olive you buy does matter If you're going to try making an olive and cream cheese sandwich at home, the type of green olive you buy matters.
You're looking for the pitted green variety (sans pimentos if you want to be as pure as possible), and if you're looking to get them off the grocery store shelf rather than from the olive bar, you want the kind from the jar not the can. I only warn you because I learned this the hard way. I initially bought a can of green olives, thinking they were the same as the kind from the jar, but instead I discovered mottled green olives inside that tasted like the soft mild black ones you put on nachos.
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