echinosum wrote:

Olives can ripen sufficiently to be edible without curing, and are
available in that condition in Morocco. I've eaten them in that
condition found in an olive grove in Marrakech in early January. I think
you may need a warm enough climate for them to get that far without
rotting though.

Mine were black, and soft, and - bloody awful until cured.

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Rusty