Musco Family Olive Co. olives are a family favorite. We almost always have a can (or a few cans) of Pearl brand olives in the cupboard, ready to open for snacking or as part of a meal. They are great on pizza, Mexican foods, sandwiches, salads, or as a side dish. They are portable, so we can take them with us on the run. Not only do they taste yummy, the company itself does a lot that I appreciate. They recycle 90% of their water (and, since they are based in California, that’s even more cool). They also have a neat program to recycle waste and water:
Musco’s most recent initiative is our Renewable Energy and Wastewater System, or RENEWS. RENEWS is the only system like it in the world, where we take two previous “waste” streams and generate renewable energy while treating wastewater. We take our olive pits, which used to be “waste”, and we now burn them in our special RENEWS system. Around 15 tons of olive pits are burned each day, generating a substantial amount of heat energy. This heat is used to evaporate process water, and the steam generated during the evaporation process is used to drive the largest production steam engine in the United States. The one of a kind Eco-Pod further concentrates and evaporates leftover water from our processing boilers, resulting in a greatly reduced volume of wastewater. Significant investment in state-of-the-art emissions controls means this is the cleanest burning biomass plant in California.
Invented and built onsite, Musco is proud of the RENEWS system, and it underscores our commitment to stewardship and preserving our planet so generations to come can enjoy its natural beauty.
I was sent a sampler box to review, full of different types of their olives. There were pitted black, pitted green, and pimento-stuffed green olives, one each from Pearls brand and Early California brand. Now, here is where I’m going to make a confession. It’s been a few *cough20cough* years since I’ve eaten a green olive. And I haven’t always loved black olives, either. But since we were sent green olives, I swore I would try them. And I did. Now I must admit that the pimento-stuffed olives are not a favorite still, but I did like the pitted green olives a lot more than I thought I would! Plus, I love that they offer lower salt versions of their olives, since sodium is not my friend at all in recent years.
One of my readers is going to win the same sampler box that I received! Three other readers will be sent a coupon for a free Musco Family Olive Co. product of their choice. Contest ends 8/18, and is open to US residents only. Good luck!
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Disclaimer: I was sent product for review purposes only, and no other compensation was received. All opinions are my honest views and opinions.
I’d like to try the Early California Large
I learned (and pinned!) a great looking recipe for Tortellini Salad
Besides salads and right off the tray appetizers/snacks, we like to eat oliveson sandwiches.
I would love to try the Black Ripe olives, they are my favorite for salads and pizza.
I learned that Musco Family Olive Co. is the leading supplier of table olives in America, and their Tracy, CA plant is the most advanced olive processing facility in the world.
My husband and I love olives as a snack. We simply eat them right out of the jar!
I learned that It takes 12 days for one picker to harvest one acre of olive trees.
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I learned that they are a family business based in Tracy, California.
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I learned that they are a family business based in Tracy, California.
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I’d like to try the Jalapeno Infusions™ black olives.
I would love to try Black Ripe Olives with Jalapeno
I’d love to try the stuffed queen garlic olives!
I eat green olives straight out of the jar all the time. I like black olives, too, but green are my favorite. I can eat a jar all by myself in a day
I also make a dip that’s just chopped green olives mixed into cream cheese, with a smidge of olive juice mixed in, too. Great on wheat thins or rolled up inside sliced turkey!
I’d like to try Stuffed Queen Garlic Olives
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I enjoy eating olives as an appetizer … plain right out of the jar
I learned that they have infused olives- I have never heard of those before!
I like olives right out of the jar or the can but we use them in a lot of dishes- Italian meals especially!
Mmmm! I would love to try the Black Ripe Olives on a veggie pizza! My favorite way to eat olives is on pizza with lots of melted cheese on them! Yum!
I learned that Musco Family Olive Co. is the leading supplier of table olives in the whole United States!
I learned that it’s a family based business out of Tracy California – a made in America company!
I’ll I need is a fork as my favorite way to eat olives is straight out of the jar – just as is!
I’d love to try the Classic Italian Infused variety!
I love to eat olives on my pizza!
I learned that their processing plant is the most advanced in the world run by a family-owned business in California!
I love olives in my Greek salad with chicken, lots of olives of course tomatoes and feta cheese!
Spanish Green olives
my hubby eats them right out of the jar
I didnt know green olives came in cans… and they have flavored olives…
Musco Family Olive Company is in Calafornia and produces much of the olives that America has.
I eat them in salad on pizza, and out of the jar or can
I’d love to try the Kalamata olives!
I put olives in my Greek salad and I just pop them in my mouth—YUM!
I would like to try the Black Ripe olives.
I would like to try the Pimento Stuffed Olives
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I like olives on pizza and salads
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I’d like to try the Early California Fresh Cured Green Ripe Olives!
I love to eat olives any way!
Here’s a family favorite: I take a fairly plain frozen pizza and top it with black olive slices, green olive slices, chopped onion, etc. It makes a plain pizza great!
I like to decorate the top of devilled eggs with green olives and those little red pieces
mmmm Pitted Kalamara
want to try the black ripe olives with jalepenos
love to eat olives on pizza
I love olives. Great to know this is a family business.
I’d like to try the Stuffed Queen Garlic Olives
I like olives in salads or pasta salads or on pizza.
I like to dice up green olives and mix with cream cheese. Great spread for crackers or a bagel.
I never knew about infused olives. I’d like to try the Spicy Ranchero ones.
Honestly, I just like them plain, straight out of the jar.
I’d like to try the garlic stuffed olives.
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I would love to try the Spicy Ranchero.
I love to eat green olives with a little salt.
would like to try Kalamata olvies
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black olives are a love of my families…we love to eat them raw..or in spaghetti or in a casserole.
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Kalamata olives
I like olives in a greek salad
I’d like to try the Early California Large
I want to try the jalepeno infused olives
I want to try the infusions
I like to add olives to my salad.
Pimento stuffed olives
I like to eat olives straight out of the jar.
I’d like to try the garlic olives! That sounds delish!
I want to try Garlic-stuffed Queens
I like them in a greek salad
It takes 12 days for one picker to harvest one acre of olive trees
I learned they have the Renewable Energy and Wastewater System RENEWS it is a one-of-a-kind closed-loop system where two waste streams – olive pits and wastewater – are combined to produce clean water and electricity.
I would like to try the Italian Infusions
I’d like to try the Early California Large
pitted kalamata
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I use them in spaghetti, salads, chili, casseroles…and I love them just by themselves
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I love that the Musco Family Olive Company is so committed to helping recycle their water from processing and even use their pits as fuel. Amazing. I love all olives, pimiento-stuffed, black, garlic stuffed, you name it.
I’d like to try the jalapeno or garlic stuffed olives
I want to try the Pearl Infusions
I like to throw olives and capers in the food processor with a block of cream cheese and it makes a spread for cracker-chips
On a pizza.
Speciality kalamata olives please.
I love to eat olives in greek salads, pizza, burritos, plain, quesadillas, etc.
I would love to try the Early Ca Large black olives!
I love to stick black olives on my fingertips and eat em right off all my fingers lol.