There is no Thanksgiving tradition associated with olives, to the best of my knowledge, but the canned "Large Ripe Black Olives" are one of those weird mid-century foodstuffs, just expensive enough not to have been an everyday item in a struggling household, and perceived as "fancy." So they would appear on special occasions, and I associate them with Thanksgiving.
The "traditional" part is really just that little kids, when confronted with them, always put them on their fingertips.
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There is no Thanksgiving tradition associated with olives, to the best of my knowledge, but the canned "Large Ripe Black Olives" are one of those weird mid-century foodstuffs, just expensive enough not to have been an everyday item in a struggling household, and perceived as "fancy." So they would appear on special occasions, and I associate them with Thanksgiving.
The "traditional" part is really just that little kids, when confronted with them, always put them on their fingertips.