What green olives do to black olives
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"How to Print Lists in the Reminders App on an iPhone & iPad"
August Garry, iPhoneLife (10/02/25)
See the second item:
Why?
Selected readings
- "Awesome foods" )2/23/15) — gǎnlǎn 橄欖 ("olive")
- "Oil: a partial paradigm" (6/19/22)
- "Tocharian words for oil" (6/22/22)
[h.t. François Lang]
François Lang said,
January 29, 2026 @ 5:06 pm
I pointed out this issue to iPhoneLife, and they responded
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Thank you for bringing this to our attention, and please accept our sincere apologies. You’re absolutely right—that wording was not appropriate, and we’re very sorry it appeared in the newsletter.
The issue has been fixed, and we’ve corrected the content so it won’t appear going forward. We truly appreciate you taking the time to let us know so we could address it quickly.
Thank you for your understanding, and again, we’re very sorry for the oversight.
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But it doesn't seem to have been fixed…at least not yet.
Jonathan Smith said,
January 29, 2026 @ 6:41 pm
"You’re absolutely right—that wording was not appropriate"
hhahhaha hilariously inapt LLM response here…
Sergey said,
January 29, 2026 @ 6:56 pm
My guess would be that it's a consequence of voice recognition, where someone listed the wrong kind of olives and then immediately recognized the error and corrected it :-)
Jonathan Smith said,
January 29, 2026 @ 7:00 pm
@Sergey
yes or alternatively "green olives [& u know what?] fuck [it], black olives [also]"
Seonachan said,
January 29, 2026 @ 7:14 pm
I read it a third way: “Delicious green olives; fuck those disgusting black olives”.
Richard Rubenstein said,
January 29, 2026 @ 8:07 pm
I agree with @Seonachan's interpretation: Possibly the original list was just whatever the author had on their actual iPhone, and they meant ("green olives (fuck black olives!)". And no one bothered to check whether the list was appropriate to use for the tip.
OTOH, the "Mushrooms" entry does look very suspicious for a human-created shopping list, so maybe not.
Barbara Phillips Long said,
January 29, 2026 @ 11:10 pm
The mushrooms entry would be suspicious for a shopping list I had created — I dislike them — but an entry that said “onions — yellow, red” would be quite common. I also buy “onions — boilers” and “scallions.” Either purple onions are an item I am not familiar with, or they are misnamed red onions.
I don’t buy collards, but “collard leaves” sounds wrong to me. “Collard greens” is what I usually read or hear.
The olives and red wine vinegar also seem misplaced to me. I make grocery lists on my phone and by hand, and I put fresh produce at the top. I leave a bunch of space before I drop down to add canned items on handwritten lists. Where olives fall on the list depends on the store and the olives — jarred olives would be among the canned and bottled items, but for the Wegmans list, the olives would be near the cheese list, because that’s where the olive bar is.
cameron said,
January 30, 2026 @ 12:48 am
"collard leaves" is not something that anyone says. people say "collards" or "collard greens"
ajay said,
January 30, 2026 @ 5:36 am
"Collard leaves" is rarer but it is used – lots of hits on Google including the wiki article on "collard".