Chocolate truffle recipe and Tamales

Kathryn at infinite improbability has a Chocolate truffle recipe that my mom made for Christmas and it is awesome... Check it out. Speaking of Christmas has me thinking of tamales, I'm curious how many people expect to find an olive in their tamales? Where I grew up nobody put olives in tamales and I'll never forget the first time I had one with an olive. I was working in Yuma at the time, and I bit the pit on my second or third bite and thought I was going to loose a tooth! Around Yuma, tamales come with an olive... Nobody thought to warn me.