In your not-always-so-humble opinion is a small plate or a bowl best for serving Olives?

No toothpicks-bare fingers is what passes for living dangerously here.
Kalamatas and Royals BTW.
Best served in a Martini.
(Really, best served in a shallow bowl.)
Question: What do you do with the pits?
By the way, Harry, where have you been all this time?

<<Harry, where have you been all this time?>>
day passes from the Institute are increasingly difficult to obtain.

Easy.
On a table put a plate and a bowl. Put olives in each. Take an olive from the bowl and eat it. Take one from the plate and eat it. Can you tell the difference?
So then...

Ze Mayor, I can tell the difference between a pit and an olive. The beauty of a small bowl is that other olives don't leap out onto the table while I chase one of their fellows.
That's the problem -- you've replied to a post, and must log in after each: it's a frustrating game of Mother May I.
Once you've scrambled an egg, you cannot un scramble it.