Hungry, But Too Tired To Cook? Try 30 to 40 Olives refers to an exploitable image macro that suggests the reader eat 30-40 olives directly out of the jar with their fingers to satisfy their hunger when they're too tired to cook. The meme was posted to Instagram in January 2020 and gained viral attention, inspiring new variations replacing olives with something else edible, or in more ironic takes on the meme, inedible.