Olive loaf

Olive loaf
cold cut
Sliced olive loaf, on a sandwich made from "olive bread"
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The term olive loaf can refer to two different food products. Primarily, it is a type of meatloaf or cold cut embedded with pimento-stuffed green olives.^[1][2] A secondary meaning is that of olive bread, a bread where the loaf of bread is laced with whole olives.^[3]

Olive studded focaccia. "Olive bread" is occasionally referred to as "olive loaf"

The luncheon meat often also contains garlic, basil or sweet peppers for additional flavor.^{[citation needed]} Olive loaf is a loaf-type luncheon meat, traditionally cooked in a loaf pan as opposed to a sausage cooked in a casing. Higher quality olive loaf is primarily beef and pork while less expensive olive loaf contains mostly chicken or turkey.^{[citation needed]} Since most less expensive bologna is made from similar meats, and since many companies now cook olive loaf in sleeves to give it a round appearance, it is a common misconception that olive loaf is a sausage like bologna.^{[citation needed]}

Olive loaf is similar to pimento loaf, the primary difference being the addition of pickles in place of olives.

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