How Did That Red Thing Get Into The Olive

This was a question that I asked myself as a kid. As an adult, after extensive research, I’ve found the answer. I’m submitting my studies as an article on Medium in hopes it will go viral — my first.

Photo by Judy Salisbury

In the beginning, when I looked at an olive, I scensed they didn’t grow on the tree into nice little green balls with a red dot. I remember thinking, someone had to get that red thing into that…