Size Matters – Futility Closet Olives counting 120-135 olives per pound: Standard Olives counting 105-120 olives per pound: Medium Olives counting 90-105 olives per pound: Large Olives counting 75-90 olives per pound: Extra Large Olives counting 65-75 olives per pound: Mammoth Olives counting 55-65 olives per pound: Colossal Olives counting 45-55 olives per pound: Giant Over the years they added Jumbo, Supercolossal, and Special Supercolossal. I Sarah Patterson, arrested for trying to steal money from a… | Flickr the comments are pretty interesting

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