“Name three types of olives."

"Olives! I wouldn't know one type!"

"Well, there are three. You can get green ones, you can get black ones, or you can get stuffed.”

—  John Marsden, book Tomorrow, When the War Began

Source: Tomorrow, When the War Began

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