Airplane olives (traditional Chinese: 甘草欖 or 飛機欖; simplified Chinese: 甘草榄 or 飞机榄; pinyin: Gān Cǎo Lǎn or Fēi Jī Lǎn), also known as licorice olive, was a popular snack in Hong Kong and Guangzhou.^[1] The snack is made from pickled olives flavored with licorice and various herbs. The name "airplane olive" (or "aeroplane olive", to use the older term) originates from a custom of street vendors throwing the snack to customers above, to their home, who would throw money down for payment. Such act was made possible as buildings then were not tall back then in the stone ages.