Have made a batch of the olive mix that goes into muffulettas (and then promptly made and devoured one muffuletta, or at least something approximating a muffuletta).
Whilst chopping the olives, I sampled a bit of each of the kinds of olives by themselves, and confirmed I still don't like olives by themselves. Yet I really like muffulettas.
Isn't cooking alchemy weird?