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The Scam Of Olive Oil, And Its Antidote
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We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Re: The Scam Of Olive Oil, And Its Antidote
Good piece. For me, personally, when I travel to Florence/Tuscany every year I buy a few bottles of the 'good stuff' from small family run farms that don't pick their olives and send the harvest off to a co-op. They process the stuff right there on the farm. It rarely makes it to a store. In fact, many of the workers take their pay in the form of olive oil instead of a paycheck.
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Re: The Scam Of Olive Oil, And Its Antidote
Checking my two Trader Joe's bottles of olive oil I do not see any dates except on the cap of one bottle. Written in Italian and English the date is 7/18/16. One bottle is from olives grown & harvested in the Puglia, Calabria & Sicily regions of Italy and the other is Kalamata olive oil from Greece. The Greek bottle I see a 8/2016 date and lot #363. I suppose I could contact TJ's and ask what they can tell me of the origins of their olive oil but do I care enough to know. Probably not. I've used TJ's olive oil for several years and it is all I need since I do not use it that often.
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Re: The Scam Of Olive Oil, And Its Antidote
You mean I've been lubricating my olives with some cheap knock-off ! ? ! ?
What's this world coming to?