Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/02/04/amazing-extra-virgin-olive-o.html
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As someone who is the parent to a child with severe food allergies, this just gives me nightmares every time I read about it. I’m one of those who obsessively checks labels, calls companies, asks servers, talks to parents and other people making food that my kid might eat, but no matter how diligent I am something like this could slip through.
I hate these fucking assholes.
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Mark Twain, in Life on the Mississippi describes the process of making cotton seed oil into fake olive oil back in the 1800s! https://books.google.com/books?id=-0qsAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA330&lpg=PA330&dq=mark+twain+cotton+olive+oil&source=bl&ots=kQy92d4HjE&sig=ACfU3U0MMHuol7nfD8aVy_VXn7_Dz43UTg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj2k9jRnKLgAhVFON8KHTe1DKwQ6AEwFnoECAUQAQ#v=onepage&q=mark%20twain%20cotton%20olive%20oil&f=false
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Accept no substitutes! No one ever tries to adulterate lard.
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Though lard is often used to adulterate other products - especially the more valuable cocoa butter which has similar physical properties. But of course as well as shortchanging customers there are religious issues for large parts of the World.
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The best on the market for me is California Olive Ranch OVOO. But it’s popularity has soared since ATK/CC pushed it as the best value brand a few years back. So its price has gone up and it is rarely on sale anymore.
Best bang for your buck for me is this one…Terra Delyssa.
And then the old stand by Colavita if I can’t get either of those.
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The concept of “extra virgin” has always eluded me.
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‘Extra Virgin’ is like ‘Nobody else has been at it before’?
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Wouldn’t “regular” virgin already cover this?
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Even without mouse print, extra virgin olive oil probably isn’t.
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After watching Samin Nosrat’s segment on olive oil for her show Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat I went out and found some Extra Virgin from Olioroi.
It was delicious! :
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you have to have had whiskey served on delta to know if you know scotch whiskey
I hope Target is included in the class action, since they are the ones actually peddling this crap.
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Well, it did say it’s a “blend”.
Except that for decades lard has been adulterated. It’s been bleached, and it’s been hydrogenated.
Sainsbury’s has committed to removing all hydrogenated oils from their shelves. It’s unclear whether this also extends to lard. Typically the lard sold in a brick like this at the supermarket is hydrogenated.
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It’s mostly a problem with imported oil. Stick with California olive oil to get the real thing.
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