You can buy dry vermouth soaked olives and onions online (and at wegmans in store) as well as my favorite, whiskey soaked cherries which I use for manhattans. Personally I think you're wrong if you drink a martini with vodka and more so if you mix the main spirit with anything other than...
A few "flavored" spirits by well name brands are okay, Red Stag by Jim beam (Cherry bourbon) is pretty decent and doesn't overwhelm you (plus cherries just go great with bourbon anyway), but on the whole I steer clear of flavored vodkas (and vodka in general) and use liqueurs and other spirits...
I definitely stopped inviting some of my friends to dinner parties over a similar issue as the OP. I'm not expecting quid pro quo but they never ever even invited me over for a beer and they would ask me "Why haven't you had a dinner party?" (A compliment, yes, but they in no way were thinking...
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