Gary Grathen wrote:

> The deli puts the olives into a plastic container. I stored them in the
> fridge that way once but they seemed to get kind of dry after a while, as
> they're not sitting in any sort of brine or oil. Would you recommend just
> keeping them sitting in the plastic container or should I add some sort of
> liquid to keep them moist and fresh?
>
> Thanks for your advice.
>

I've never heard of anyone adding anything to deli prepared/sold olives
when keeping them? Perhaps you should ask for the deli to scoop some of
the brine into the plastic container too when they're scooping the
olives in?
Goomba