On Fri, 28 Sep 2018 16:10:21 +0300, Opinicus wrote:

> I live in an olive-growing region of an olive-growing country and I
> can say from personal experience that ripe olives on the tree are not
> wrinkled. I know the olives are ripe because I've picked them off the
> tree and eaten them myself. (Nothing to write home about, by the way;
> they're bland to the point of "blah".)

You just lied. All olives picked right off the tree, green or black
(or rather, brown), are inedible by humans because they have TOO
MUCH flavor. Unless, of course, you live in the Boverse.

-sw