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But don't imply that labeled olive oil is "adulterated" with canola or something and is "fake" olive oil, unless there is actually something in the bottle that is not olive oil, and it is deceptively labeled.
The problem is that the label says something that is not true. When the label says Extra virgin olive oil and test show that in fact it is only a virgin oil, then the product is deceptively labeled ( see the law suit, and see the tests ).
The tests revealed that the supposedly extra virgin oil was chemically manipulated and "synthetically attempted to reach chemical balances that approximate what real extra virgin olive oil might look like".
That was proven, and law suit followed.
You also saw the list of the companies involved in the law suit.
Is that not enough??
Olives suck. They're like the little rubber tires that were on our race cars for our toy electric race car sets when we were kids. They taste like them, too. So the oil from them tastes accordingly.
Olive oil is very new in America. In Kansas City, there was only one store that sold it as recently as the mid 70s, except a few that had little 6 oz bottles in specialty imported food, over by chutney and Kikkoman soy sauce. I can remember asking for olive oil in big supermarkets and being told to check the baby aisle, by diapers. One store told me they can special order it, but they never do in winter because it turns cloudy on the truck, so come back in the spring. It didn't start to catch on until well into the 80s, when doctors were scaring the bejesus out of people reading off their cholesterol numbers.
Olive oil is very new in America. In Kansas City, there was only one store that sold it as recently as the mid 70s, except a few that had little 6 oz bottles in specialty imported food, over by chutney and Kikkoman soy sauce. I can remember asking for olive oil in big supermarkets and being told to check the baby aisle, by diapers. One store told me they can special order it, but they never do in winter because it turns cloudy on the truck, so come back in the spring. It didn't start to catch on until well into the 80s, when doctors were scaring the bejesus out of people reading off their cholesterol numbers.
The Italian side of my family has been consuming olive oil here in California since they immigrated in the early 1900's. I guess that could be considered new given olive oil's 6000+year history.
The biggest scam is that only the best olive oil "comes from Italy."
I've been buying Spanish olive oil for quite some time now, it's good stuff.
Years ago some people in Greece (great olive oil there, too) told me that Italians had been buying olive oil from them and passing it off as Italian, and I don't doubt that this happens to Spanish olive oil as well.
I use olive oil just about every night, so I go through it pretty fast.
I should check out what I can get locally, though, and I think I will do that the next time I am at the farmer's market.
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They're like the little rubber tires that were on our race cars for our toy electric race car sets when we were kids. They taste like them, too. So the oil from them tastes accordingly.
the kind from bees you dirty minded people.
