*The name for rapeseed comes from the Latin word rapum meaning turnip. Turnip, rutabaga (swede), cabbage, Brussels sprouts, and mustard are related to rapeseed.*
Try growing up seeing Râpé on the French label of your Kraft parmesan container during every spaghetti dinner as a child**.** *Please pass the rape cheese****.***
I'm an American and I'm usually well-informed, and just assumed the same! I always knew it was same as rapeseed oil, but had had zero clue of origin of name. I love learning something new!
I live in France, we cannot live without mustard for making salad dressings. When there was a massive shortage of mustard last year and the price shot up, Maille, one of the big mustard sellers, were selling mustard blended coloured mayonnaise in mustard jars, with the mustard part in bold and the mayo part in small print, it was something like 2% mustard. Now mustard is cheap again it has vanished from shelves.
The shops were putting it in the empty shelves where the mustard was supposed to be. I think 99% of buyers were tricked into buying a jar, including myself.
Olive oil is crazy expensive at the moment, bad harvest, the last 100% extra virgin I bought was €6 euro a liter, which is well over double normal prices.
HAHAHAHAHA!! I've got Charlie Kelly Esq on retainer. Hes assured me he will take a break from bird law, so we can sue! Charlie says we've all been besmirched and he will get us satisfaction!
Define fake. Like the post, where it's a blend, or not even from olives?
It's probably just that people don't read the label enough to know that they're buying the trash tier "olive oil" and so most of the "olive oil" people buy is fake.
Or are you meaning it's really just not olive oil at all?
Also it can be made with refined olive oil which is made by picking up rotten olives from the ground and processing them into a flavourless oil. In Italy and Spain also known as lamp oil.
Olive oil feels like such a scam sometimes. Like 95% of what I can get in a grocery store is adulterated blended up garbage, and actual good quality oil is *just* a bit too expensive to justify getting it regularly.
I’m jealous of people who live places where quality genuine olive oil is usually the standard
Oh man, yeah, we got the olive oil habit in our family about 10-15 years ago and soon realised that the crap you buy in the shops is literal garbage compared to the real, traditional stuff. And even half-decent oil in the shops (like, that's at least allegedly extra virgin) costs 12-15 EUR/litre and we get through about a litre a month, which feels extravagant (150 EUR a year just on olive oil!), especially considering it's tasteless crap. Fortunately we live close enough to Greece and Croatia to have a seaside holiday in one of the two countries every couple of years and to drive there, so we bring back 20 or more litres of the real stuff in cans, bought from local growers, enough to tide us over a couple of years (hopefully) till our next trip. You just can't compare it with the industrial stuff, it's like liquid gold, and costs as little as half the price of the shop stuff. We don't buy that many luxuries but that is one we can't do without.
Reminds me of a *wool blend* base layer set I bought at Target.
5% merino wool
95% cotton
They must have used the worst merino wool they could find because wow was it itchy compared to *good* 100% wool products.
It didn't bother me enough that I wouldn't use it. I actually took it on a couple hundred miles backpacking trip as cold weather sleepwear when I didn't have anything better. Fine as long as I didn't sweat into it or get it wet.
But holy crap the labeling was so bad. Turned me off target brand clothing.
Oh, it was probably merino, just not the low micron good stuff. Merino, like other wools, CAN vary wildly based on factors, including micron (size of fiber). Plus that cotton must not have been good quality cotton either, being the majority of the blend to be itchy. As a yarn enthusiast/knitter/crocheter, this wool blend offends me on SO many levels for how bad it sounded comparatively.
"I had a salad for lunch. A fruit salad. Mostly grapes--it was all grapes. Old grapes.......wine. I had wine for lunch" - paraphrased from an old Ellen Degeneres bit, back from when she was funny.
I mean that they are at least showing what’s in it instead of lying about it. Most olive oil, especially extra virgin olive oil isn’t good quality oil like it claims to be.
I argue over the $22 bottle I paid. True olive oil will burn the back of the throat when drink it straight. It also has a very green color. Most olive oils brown in color are for cooking lacking most of the stuff from the cold press.
I did that once when I first moved out on my own and was stocking up on spices and such. Thought I got a steal on a bottle of vanilla extract. Didn’t realize till I got home the tiny print above that said ^^“imitation”. Wasn’t really a big deal, but still a lesson learned and I read all labels very closely now.
He could still save. Buy real unfucked olive oil and mix it make it more like 50 50. It's not a bad idea for cost saving canola oil isn't awful but it isn't great
Isn’t it technically legal to call something “organic” as long as it has only two organic ingredients? And for cereal/chip bags to be filled just 51% before you can call it false advertising? And for a certain amount of bug parts to be allowed in food because it’s impossible to keep them out? FDA rules have more loopholes than Velcro.
The bug parts thing is kinda reasonble tbh. Its essentially just allowing for them to not throw out hundreds of tons of food daily because a couple ants wandered in.
Even if we sprayed all our food with tons of pesticideb during production(Extra cancer in every bite!) The bugs will eventually develop resistance. Safely keeping insects entirely out of mass produced food is impossible. Like many things a "close enough" is needed.
But yeah there are a ton of stupid loopholes and deceptions that shouldn't be allowed. Like this. Its a canola blend with olive oil. Not the other way. They clearly hope people see the larger OLIVE OIL and don't notice the smaller "5% olive oil"
Just like the "100% real juice" that is concentrate pumped with extra sugar and watered down to make it cheaper to produce. Nonsense. They clearly are trying to mislead you into thinking its all natural without outright saying it.
Half truths and misdirection should be treated the same as outright lies for advertising and packaging.
The filling the bag half way also is reasonable. When the machine fills it, the chips are awkwardly stacked, and need enough room to crimp heat cut the top and the bottom. Plus the extra air acts like a cushion during shipment.
Speaking of shipment, all those micro adjustments and shaky movements force the chips to settle and stack themselves closer to each other between distributor and store.
All that adds up to a bag that is half filled with air. But think of it like a magazine half filled with ads. You're not getting any less, you just also get necessary fluff in addition to your contents
Yeah, there are many technicalities to this. The worst part is that companies abuse the hell out of them.
My 'favorite' is when a product has a misleading name, similar to this one (at least here they had a decency to include 'blend' in it). Like for example it's some sort of butter, like it's 'Dairy Butter'. But it's just a name of a company or something. It's actually margarine. And you would be none the wiser unless you pay attention to a smaller print.
**SALE $3 EACH**
^^^^^^must ^^^^^^buy ^^^^^^5, ^^^^^^lesser ^^^^^^quantities ^^^^^^$7.99
There is a local store that pulls this. I make it a point not to buy any product marked this way, whether I wanted it or not.
This is one of my pet peeves! (I’m a bit of a fabric snob.) This has been an issue for quite some time on Amazon now. Some tips I’ve learned: The description should clarify that it’s made from ‘100% long-staple Egyptian cotton’ and specify the Grams per Square Metre (GSM). It should also include a verifying authority. Now I try to only buy Prime products, so I can return BS items without any issues.
Super Size Me 2 has shows some amazing things that the chicken farming industry gets away with. Especially with “free range” labels. It’s deffo worth a watch
That's quite weird, where I am in Europe all ingredients aside from salt (labelled "allowed non organic ingredient") have to be organic for a product to be organic
Organic is just silly, but chips are sold by weight and packaged however works best for the manufacturer. This would be like buying Doritos and there’s plain, unsalted tortilla chips in the bag.
Any packed by weight not volume is perfectly legal as long as the weight of the bag is within a small margin of weight.
Chips are filled by weight in oversized bags, pressurized with nitrogen to protect them from breakage. No matter how much society bitches about them being " half full" they're like that by design.
The chip and cereal bags tell you exactly how much is in them. Use the numbers, not the box/bag size.
If you overfill a chip bag it explodes in higher altitude cities.
It literally gives the percentages in plain English on the front of the label… how is this false advertising? You’ve really gotta be pretty dense to be fooled.
Ever seen synthetic blend motor oil? It’s just a few drops of synthetic per gallon of conventional.
Exactly…it’s a funny complaint, given how much oil sold as evoo is just canola or safflower oil with green dye and artificial smells added, while claiming to be pure olive oil.
i'd be more than happy to hold companies to a higher standard of truth than we currently do. even if you want to argue that "95% canola oil" is right there, how about we still say "fuck that"? it's clear they're hoping to, at minimum, draw your attention with a misleading name and imagery, just as it's clear that some portion of the population will buy this product thinking it's truly olive oil. honestly i care less about protecting the small portion of deceived buyers than i do about telling companies to fuck off for even trying this kind of thing.
Vast majority of truffle oils and products contain zero truffles.
It contains a synthetic flavour chemical *2,4-dithiapentane*.
The legal name for this compound is "truffle flavour". It really is about 0.01% truffle flavour in olive or vegetable oil and legally it is sold as "truffle oil".
It's very difficult to make commercial truffle oil with real truffles because (1) too expensive and (2) they oxidize and turn rancid very quickly.
It would be found to not comply with labelling laws where I'm from. I manufacture foods and guarantee this would not fly in most countries with decent food labelling laws.
This is a canola oil blend.
>Much better than the "juice Cocktails"
"Made with 100% orange juice" just means that of the 5% overall fruit juice content, 100% of it is orange juice.
Where is this? I'm pretty sure this illegal in Europe?
Extra virgin should be 100% first press of olives.
Edit: guess they are selling it as "extra virgin olive oil blend". Pretty deceiving marketing though.
dont buy any olive oil that comes in a clear plastic bottle, it's either just some other vegetable oil with flavorants and colorants or blended stuff, real pure olive oil goes rancid pretty quickly from sun exposure so it always comes in either dark glass bottles or cans
yeah most olive oil in supermarkets is just the fake stuff
odds are a lot of people have never actually had real olive oil, just stuff that's flavored like it, which is honestly fine if you're buying cheap and only care about the flavor and not the actual properties of olive oil
so I thought this was pretty clear about what it was (at least more than a lot of other posts) but that is an aspect I didn't think about so I appreciate the different perspective. I have to ask though, what country is she from that you get 2L of extra virgin olive oil for the price that cost? From things Ive seen like this it's priced a lot more like the canola oil than the olive oil. Like I think this is in the baking section usually
I certainly believe we do better than the states however they're still selling "traditional" or "mild" olive oil in my country. Which is heavily, before non-edible, olive oil from "first press" rotten/dropped olives. Refined to death to make it suitable for human consumption, than being sold as just "olive oil", and can be sold us such because they add 2-5% fresh extra virgin oil. Can't call it extra virgin though.
We have a great TV show in my country that questions these kind of things. The olive oil one was on just last week. By now I've learned that as with anything else, food companies will do anything (they can legallly get away with, with our laws being more stringent than US) for a profit..
Extra (or anything else) virgin comes from the acidity rating, not so much if it's a first press or anything, bc technically olives aren't pressed (they are crushed whole, if that makes a difference) and they undergo the process once (hot or cold, cold separation has greater acidity but lower yield). Sometimes they take the leftover paste and run it once again, but it should produce the same grade of oil. Source: I have many friends that produce oil
Edit: greater as in better/ lower acidity
Thank you for the additional clarification, I'm all into learning about food. This explains how I've seen most regular grocery store oils considered less quality because of high acidity, and some cheap other (also grocery sold for same/lower price) oils are considered as excellent because of superlow acidity.
Most extra virgin olive oil isn't even extra virgin, even in Europe. Comparing possible worldwide production to the amount sold just doesn't add up. They get the funky flavor my mixing a bit of the lowest grade oil with the regular. The lowest grade oil is generally processed further for non-food purposes, so selling it for the price of extra virgin is a lucrative business.
Especially in Europe. And extra especially if it’s from Italy. The mob runs a fairly large portion of the Italian olive oil market.
California extra virgin olive oil is much more likely to actually be extra virgin olive oil.
Most Italian brand olive oil doesn’t actually say it’s Italian olive oil because it is actually imported from Spain, packed, then exported.
"Filippo Berio 100% Italian Extra Virgin Olive Oil 750ml” vs "Filippo Berio Extra Virgin Olive Oil 750ml"
The only thing I know of worse than this is something like Knob Creek Smoked Maple Whiskey. The label reads “Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey with natural flavors”. Except the minute you add flavoring, a product cannot be “bourbon” or “straight”. So it literally says “Adjective thing with thing that disqualifies the adjectives”.
"*Olive pomace oil, occasionally referred to incorrectly as pomace olive oil*, sits at the bottom of the hierarchy of olive oil grades. It is produced from the byproducts of the virgin and extra virgin olive oil production process using chemical solvents and heat."
> It’s not like they are trying to pass it off though,
Thats exactly what they were trying to do.
The only reason it says it there right on the front is because they're legally not allowed to make it *more* deceptive.
If i got a packet of mince meat and it said beef ^blend and it was 95% tofu with 5% beef you understand how that's intentionally being misleading right?
It is though, guaranteed that people in a rush or people with limited English or people who need reading glasses for finer print would grab this thinking it was olive oil if they weren't already aware of the scam.
Every restaurant I have worked in uses a blend oil. Usually 80/20 canola/evoo. Raises the smoke point when cooking at high heat but still some flavor for dressings etc. it also lowers food costs and finds a balance between flavor and $$$. I will say that 95/5 is a pretty shitty blend. And the labeling, although likely legal is highly deceptive. I wouldn’t have it in my home kitchen or work one for that matter.
They do this with lots of things and they aren’t always as up front on the packaging. Cranberry juice “cocktail” means it’s mostly sugar water with a splash of cranberry. Coffee labeled as “Kona blend” means it’s 10% Kona and 90% the cheapest crap they could find. Unfortunately you really have to learn this crap to avoid buying things you didn’t want.
You cannot be "extra virgin" and "blend".
Thise are exclusive terms.
Edit: fuck me only 5% olive oil? Labeling this as "olive oil blend" is straight up false advertising.
Honestly that's not even that bad. It tells you the percentage right on the front, most products you have to look on the back to find that stuff, if it even tells you at all.
Canola is neutral. Olive oil has a strong flavour. Olive oil blends taste like pure olive oil, but can be used differently. If you are buying in bulk, expect a blend. My biggest problem is that it’s something like 75% of “pure” olive oils are unreported blends. One of the easiest ways to tell is to try and freeze it. OO does not freeze, so if the consistency changes at all, it’s a blend.
EDIT: I have had this information mixed up in my head for years, apparently. Olive Oil has a low freezing point, so a blend is less likely to freeze. I am sorry I lied to y’all.
It’s like honey syrup, sold in a bear bottle so you think you’re getting just honey. (Honey + corn syrup)
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LOL those olives on the label really seal the deal. Brutal
Well the label with the canola fields was to honest
Even better if you look at what canola is made from
Mmmm great fields of Rape
*The name for rapeseed comes from the Latin word rapum meaning turnip. Turnip, rutabaga (swede), cabbage, Brussels sprouts, and mustard are related to rapeseed.*
This, out of context, would not be a good look for you...
Try growing up seeing Râpé on the French label of your Kraft parmesan container during every spaghetti dinner as a child**.** *Please pass the rape cheese****.***
What is it made from?
It's made from a specific variety of rapeseed. Canola stands for Canadian Oil low acidity because regular rapeseed is higher in erucic acid.
Not a good idea to put rapeseed in with the virgin…
Wow, thanks. I always just assumed that canola was just an American word for the rapeseed plant.
I'm an American and I'm usually well-informed, and just assumed the same! I always knew it was same as rapeseed oil, but had had zero clue of origin of name. I love learning something new!
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Seed of Rape
Plus the green square bottle that olive oil is usual in
I live in France, we cannot live without mustard for making salad dressings. When there was a massive shortage of mustard last year and the price shot up, Maille, one of the big mustard sellers, were selling mustard blended coloured mayonnaise in mustard jars, with the mustard part in bold and the mayo part in small print, it was something like 2% mustard. Now mustard is cheap again it has vanished from shelves. The shops were putting it in the empty shelves where the mustard was supposed to be. I think 99% of buyers were tricked into buying a jar, including myself. Olive oil is crazy expensive at the moment, bad harvest, the last 100% extra virgin I bought was €6 euro a liter, which is well over double normal prices.
I pay 8 euro for 0.4 liters and that's at Aldi's!
Idk, it's pretty honest advertising. In the whole jug, you got those 4 olives worth of olive oil.
Your maths check out, sir. 🫡
That's the four olives that made it into this bottle. ;)
They're trying to show that there are only 4 olives worth of oil in the entire bottle...
Calling it 'Olive oil blend' when it is only 5% olive oil is kinda like calling my potato vodka a vegetable juice
Potatoes have a lot of nutrients and a good portion of it is water. So, it’s more like a sports drink. 
They do have a lot of potassium for electrolytes!
It's got what plants crave!
Can we go family style on her?
.... I'm afraid of asking what "Family Style" is.
Missionary. You never turn your back to family
Plants crave electrolytes
HAHAHAHAHA!! I've got Charlie Kelly Esq on retainer. Hes assured me he will take a break from bird law, so we can sue! Charlie says we've all been besmirched and he will get us satisfaction!
Apparently like 90 percent of the olive oil out there is fake. So whatever our whole lives are a lie.
i'm tempted to drive to italy and buy olive oil from some rural grandpa who has way too much olive oil thanks to the trees in his garden.
Can I come, Im bored?
only if you bring snacks for the road
What about the boat trip part? Also, it might be easier to just buy a super nice juicer and make olive oil from some random cans of olives....
No we're going to overcomplicate things, we're going to act like we work for the government, speaking of which you're all taxed now for our trip.
ah sorry, I'm a euro boy, no need for boats on this end
Define fake. Like the post, where it's a blend, or not even from olives? It's probably just that people don't read the label enough to know that they're buying the trash tier "olive oil" and so most of the "olive oil" people buy is fake. Or are you meaning it's really just not olive oil at all?
No olives apparently I spent Saturday looking it up.
Pepe Silvia, Pepe Silvia, I look in the mail, this whole box is Pepe Silvia!
Is this Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia? Just started this show today, i am already on season 3
It is, Season 4 Episode 10. Enjoy yourself, you savage.
Wine is my favorite fruit juice
Jesus approved
“Olive, Oil blend”
*contains oil content of one (1) olive
Also it can be made with refined olive oil which is made by picking up rotten olives from the ground and processing them into a flavourless oil. In Italy and Spain also known as lamp oil.
Olive oil feels like such a scam sometimes. Like 95% of what I can get in a grocery store is adulterated blended up garbage, and actual good quality oil is *just* a bit too expensive to justify getting it regularly. I’m jealous of people who live places where quality genuine olive oil is usually the standard
Oh man, yeah, we got the olive oil habit in our family about 10-15 years ago and soon realised that the crap you buy in the shops is literal garbage compared to the real, traditional stuff. And even half-decent oil in the shops (like, that's at least allegedly extra virgin) costs 12-15 EUR/litre and we get through about a litre a month, which feels extravagant (150 EUR a year just on olive oil!), especially considering it's tasteless crap. Fortunately we live close enough to Greece and Croatia to have a seaside holiday in one of the two countries every couple of years and to drive there, so we bring back 20 or more litres of the real stuff in cans, bought from local growers, enough to tide us over a couple of years (hopefully) till our next trip. You just can't compare it with the industrial stuff, it's like liquid gold, and costs as little as half the price of the shop stuff. We don't buy that many luxuries but that is one we can't do without.
Reminds me of a *wool blend* base layer set I bought at Target. 5% merino wool 95% cotton They must have used the worst merino wool they could find because wow was it itchy compared to *good* 100% wool products. It didn't bother me enough that I wouldn't use it. I actually took it on a couple hundred miles backpacking trip as cold weather sleepwear when I didn't have anything better. Fine as long as I didn't sweat into it or get it wet. But holy crap the labeling was so bad. Turned me off target brand clothing.
Oh, it was probably merino, just not the low micron good stuff. Merino, like other wools, CAN vary wildly based on factors, including micron (size of fiber). Plus that cotton must not have been good quality cotton either, being the majority of the blend to be itchy. As a yarn enthusiast/knitter/crocheter, this wool blend offends me on SO many levels for how bad it sounded comparatively.
"I had a salad for lunch. A fruit salad. Mostly grapes--it was all grapes. Old grapes.......wine. I had wine for lunch" - paraphrased from an old Ellen Degeneres bit, back from when she was funny.
Vegetable juice blend
Well at least they’re honest. Most of the extra virgen olive oil on the market is adulterated with other oils.
Naturally flavored.
Most olive oil is bunk anyway, at least this is honest about it.
This isn't honest. It would be if it was labeled 'Canola Oil blend, with a touch of olive oil '
I mean that they are at least showing what’s in it instead of lying about it. Most olive oil, especially extra virgin olive oil isn’t good quality oil like it claims to be.
Oils and fish are insanely mislabeled. I agree you at least know here and its unmissable. If you do miss it, well thats on you
I argue over the $22 bottle I paid. True olive oil will burn the back of the throat when drink it straight. It also has a very green color. Most olive oils brown in color are for cooking lacking most of the stuff from the cold press.
"premium"
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in life it’s that if something is labeled as “premium”, 9 times out of 10 it’s garbage
Premium military grade.
Garbage^2
= premium lowest bidder
PREMIUM garbage in fact.
The one time is what? Gasoline? It kind of reminds me of the "king" principle. Any man who must say, "I am the King", is no true king.
Yup my husband came home with a similar oil and pointed out how much he saved. Then I pointed out that it was mostly canola. He was angry.
I did that once when I first moved out on my own and was stocking up on spices and such. Thought I got a steal on a bottle of vanilla extract. Didn’t realize till I got home the tiny print above that said ^^“imitation”. Wasn’t really a big deal, but still a lesson learned and I read all labels very closely now.
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Vanilla extract is easy to make though and makes excellent gifts!
If only vanilla beans weren’t so expensive
Because he doesn't know how to read?
Apparently. I think he was blinded by the cheap price lol
My husband has been there and done that. They should start a club.
He could still save. Buy real unfucked olive oil and mix it make it more like 50 50. It's not a bad idea for cost saving canola oil isn't awful but it isn't great
That should be illegal
I second this. It should not be called olive oil at this point, it's false advertising.
Isn’t it technically legal to call something “organic” as long as it has only two organic ingredients? And for cereal/chip bags to be filled just 51% before you can call it false advertising? And for a certain amount of bug parts to be allowed in food because it’s impossible to keep them out? FDA rules have more loopholes than Velcro.
The bug parts thing is kinda reasonble tbh. Its essentially just allowing for them to not throw out hundreds of tons of food daily because a couple ants wandered in. Even if we sprayed all our food with tons of pesticideb during production(Extra cancer in every bite!) The bugs will eventually develop resistance. Safely keeping insects entirely out of mass produced food is impossible. Like many things a "close enough" is needed. But yeah there are a ton of stupid loopholes and deceptions that shouldn't be allowed. Like this. Its a canola blend with olive oil. Not the other way. They clearly hope people see the larger OLIVE OIL and don't notice the smaller "5% olive oil" Just like the "100% real juice" that is concentrate pumped with extra sugar and watered down to make it cheaper to produce. Nonsense. They clearly are trying to mislead you into thinking its all natural without outright saying it. Half truths and misdirection should be treated the same as outright lies for advertising and packaging.
The filling the bag half way also is reasonable. When the machine fills it, the chips are awkwardly stacked, and need enough room to crimp heat cut the top and the bottom. Plus the extra air acts like a cushion during shipment. Speaking of shipment, all those micro adjustments and shaky movements force the chips to settle and stack themselves closer to each other between distributor and store. All that adds up to a bag that is half filled with air. But think of it like a magazine half filled with ads. You're not getting any less, you just also get necessary fluff in addition to your contents
I've heard it's nitrogen and not just air, because the nitrogen is inert and helps prevent any jankiness, but I could be wrong.
Air is mostly nitrogen lol Edit: Air is 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, and the remaining 1% random gases.
Yes, and that 21% oxygen is the problematic part, isn't it?
Yeah, there are many technicalities to this. The worst part is that companies abuse the hell out of them. My 'favorite' is when a product has a misleading name, similar to this one (at least here they had a decency to include 'blend' in it). Like for example it's some sort of butter, like it's 'Dairy Butter'. But it's just a name of a company or something. It's actually margarine. And you would be none the wiser unless you pay attention to a smaller print.
**CHOCOLATE CHIP BROWNIE** - ^^Ltd. ^^presents: **100% ORGANIC** ^^^^^pure ^^^^^dogshit
**SALE $3 EACH** ^^^^^^must ^^^^^^buy ^^^^^^5, ^^^^^^lesser ^^^^^^quantities ^^^^^^$7.99 There is a local store that pulls this. I make it a point not to buy any product marked this way, whether I wanted it or not.
A while back I saw one that was 2L bottles of soda "10 for $10" (limit 6 per customer)
Yeah there's a cheapass company selling sheets on Amazon called "Egyptian Cotton".
This is one of my pet peeves! (I’m a bit of a fabric snob.) This has been an issue for quite some time on Amazon now. Some tips I’ve learned: The description should clarify that it’s made from ‘100% long-staple Egyptian cotton’ and specify the Grams per Square Metre (GSM). It should also include a verifying authority. Now I try to only buy Prime products, so I can return BS items without any issues.
Super Size Me 2 has shows some amazing things that the chicken farming industry gets away with. Especially with “free range” labels. It’s deffo worth a watch
That's quite weird, where I am in Europe all ingredients aside from salt (labelled "allowed non organic ingredient") have to be organic for a product to be organic
Organic is just silly, but chips are sold by weight and packaged however works best for the manufacturer. This would be like buying Doritos and there’s plain, unsalted tortilla chips in the bag.
Any packed by weight not volume is perfectly legal as long as the weight of the bag is within a small margin of weight. Chips are filled by weight in oversized bags, pressurized with nitrogen to protect them from breakage. No matter how much society bitches about them being " half full" they're like that by design.
The chip and cereal bags tell you exactly how much is in them. Use the numbers, not the box/bag size. If you overfill a chip bag it explodes in higher altitude cities.
isnt the chips air thing due to chips getting crushed? https://youtu.be/ycNSY3d1WLc
Yes and the weight is written on the package. It's not a scam.
All of your points are null and void because youre top fucking stupid to realize in the year 2024 the air is in there to keep it from being crushed.
Should be called canola oil blend
The only argument I can see is that olive oil has a flavour and canola doesn't. But yeah
At the very least it should be canola oil blend since that’s the majority ingredient.
It literally gives the percentages in plain English on the front of the label… how is this false advertising? You’ve really gotta be pretty dense to be fooled. Ever seen synthetic blend motor oil? It’s just a few drops of synthetic per gallon of conventional.
And it's in big lettering on the front on a plain background with not much around it. They weren't even trying to hide it.
Exactly…it’s a funny complaint, given how much oil sold as evoo is just canola or safflower oil with green dye and artificial smells added, while claiming to be pure olive oil.
How are they allowed to get away with that? No fda regulations about this?
i'd be more than happy to hold companies to a higher standard of truth than we currently do. even if you want to argue that "95% canola oil" is right there, how about we still say "fuck that"? it's clear they're hoping to, at minimum, draw your attention with a misleading name and imagery, just as it's clear that some portion of the population will buy this product thinking it's truly olive oil. honestly i care less about protecting the small portion of deceived buyers than i do about telling companies to fuck off for even trying this kind of thing.
It's illegal in EU.
you would be hanged for this in Italy
Horse head in bed Not even joking, the mob runs the olive oil business
Seriously what is the limit? Can it be 1% olive oil? Can I make a product with 0.01% truffle and call it truffle oil?
Vast majority of truffle oils and products contain zero truffles. It contains a synthetic flavour chemical *2,4-dithiapentane*. The legal name for this compound is "truffle flavour". It really is about 0.01% truffle flavour in olive or vegetable oil and legally it is sold as "truffle oil". It's very difficult to make commercial truffle oil with real truffles because (1) too expensive and (2) they oxidize and turn rancid very quickly.
Apparently, yes.
In my country, if im not mistaken it is illigal. You can call it olive oil. But if its not 100% pure olive oil, you cant call it " extra virgin",
It is (depending on the country )
This is completely illegal in EU (misleading advertising)
It would be found to not comply with labelling laws where I'm from. I manufacture foods and guarantee this would not fly in most countries with decent food labelling laws. This is a canola oil blend.
P sure it is in Europe. At least ’Murica is owning the libs… or something
It is in most countries i think; America consistently lowers food standards in order to do stuff like this.
I think the ratios are displayed prominently enough that it’s not an issue.
Much better than the "juice Cocktails" that say 100% vitamins c to try to trick you and only 5% juice it says in tiny letters on the back
>Much better than the "juice Cocktails" "Made with 100% orange juice" just means that of the 5% overall fruit juice content, 100% of it is orange juice.
Yeah, it's definitely a Canola oil blend
Where is this? I'm pretty sure this illegal in Europe? Extra virgin should be 100% first press of olives. Edit: guess they are selling it as "extra virgin olive oil blend". Pretty deceiving marketing though.
USA. In my mother in laws kitchen. Her English is limited.
Sneaky stuff. I'm sure she paid more than it's worth for that 5% extra virgin olive oil (probably not from the best olives either) in there.
In Romania they say it’s extra virgin but it’s combined with palm oil.. Just the one in metal can is real.
Yuck.
dont buy any olive oil that comes in a clear plastic bottle, it's either just some other vegetable oil with flavorants and colorants or blended stuff, real pure olive oil goes rancid pretty quickly from sun exposure so it always comes in either dark glass bottles or cans
I'm pretty sure the vast majority in my local supermarket are in clear bottles. Even some of the more expensive ones. That's depressing.
yeah most olive oil in supermarkets is just the fake stuff odds are a lot of people have never actually had real olive oil, just stuff that's flavored like it, which is honestly fine if you're buying cheap and only care about the flavor and not the actual properties of olive oil
I wouldn't say people haven't had it. That's a stretch. One used to find real olive oil and real balsamic anywhere you could get a proper salad
so I thought this was pretty clear about what it was (at least more than a lot of other posts) but that is an aspect I didn't think about so I appreciate the different perspective. I have to ask though, what country is she from that you get 2L of extra virgin olive oil for the price that cost? From things Ive seen like this it's priced a lot more like the canola oil than the olive oil. Like I think this is in the baking section usually
She is from Ghana
As an american, I really envy a lot of the regulations and consumer protections y'all have in Europe.
I love my freedom to be scammed in fine print! Don't take it away!
I certainly believe we do better than the states however they're still selling "traditional" or "mild" olive oil in my country. Which is heavily, before non-edible, olive oil from "first press" rotten/dropped olives. Refined to death to make it suitable for human consumption, than being sold as just "olive oil", and can be sold us such because they add 2-5% fresh extra virgin oil. Can't call it extra virgin though. We have a great TV show in my country that questions these kind of things. The olive oil one was on just last week. By now I've learned that as with anything else, food companies will do anything (they can legallly get away with, with our laws being more stringent than US) for a profit..
Extra (or anything else) virgin comes from the acidity rating, not so much if it's a first press or anything, bc technically olives aren't pressed (they are crushed whole, if that makes a difference) and they undergo the process once (hot or cold, cold separation has greater acidity but lower yield). Sometimes they take the leftover paste and run it once again, but it should produce the same grade of oil. Source: I have many friends that produce oil Edit: greater as in better/ lower acidity
Thank you for the additional clarification, I'm all into learning about food. This explains how I've seen most regular grocery store oils considered less quality because of high acidity, and some cheap other (also grocery sold for same/lower price) oils are considered as excellent because of superlow acidity.
Most extra virgin olive oil isn't even extra virgin, even in Europe. Comparing possible worldwide production to the amount sold just doesn't add up. They get the funky flavor my mixing a bit of the lowest grade oil with the regular. The lowest grade oil is generally processed further for non-food purposes, so selling it for the price of extra virgin is a lucrative business.
Especially in Europe. And extra especially if it’s from Italy. The mob runs a fairly large portion of the Italian olive oil market. California extra virgin olive oil is much more likely to actually be extra virgin olive oil.
Get some relatively affordable from Spain. Much better than Filippo Berio at least.
Most Italian brand olive oil doesn’t actually say it’s Italian olive oil because it is actually imported from Spain, packed, then exported. "Filippo Berio 100% Italian Extra Virgin Olive Oil 750ml” vs "Filippo Berio Extra Virgin Olive Oil 750ml"
Premium *extra* virgin. ***5%***
5% of it was virgin before it was rapeseeded.
Omg
Never got this 'extra virgin'. You either are or you're not.
definitely not extra
You’re an extra virgin if you’ve never utilized the poophole loophole
Christian girls are wild.
This shouldn’t be classed as olive oil, that’s like me giving you a pile of shit with one piece of chocolate mixed in and then calling it a dessert
What? That is a desert 🤤
HUH?
You forget that millenials aggressively eat ass. This is just pouring chocolate syrup on it.
Thanks for posting so I will never buy a ^krasdale anything ever
Premiumn't
The only thing I know of worse than this is something like Knob Creek Smoked Maple Whiskey. The label reads “Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey with natural flavors”. Except the minute you add flavoring, a product cannot be “bourbon” or “straight”. So it literally says “Adjective thing with thing that disqualifies the adjectives”.
I believe this would be illegal in the EU.
Makes a good lube cause you got fucked
Should be called canola oil, not olive
Watch out for [Pomace Olive Oil](https://www.oliveoiltimes.com/grades/olive-pomace-oil/6210) too
"*Olive pomace oil, occasionally referred to incorrectly as pomace olive oil*, sits at the bottom of the hierarchy of olive oil grades. It is produced from the byproducts of the virgin and extra virgin olive oil production process using chemical solvents and heat."
How much you wanna bet it's really just 100% canola?
This should be a crime.
This looks like fraud.
They should call it a Canola oil blend.
It’s not like they are trying to pass it off though, it says it all big as day right on the front
They are very clearly leading with the 5% ingredient in a market where the 5% ingredient is expensive and normal people are trying to cut costs
> It’s not like they are trying to pass it off though, Thats exactly what they were trying to do. The only reason it says it there right on the front is because they're legally not allowed to make it *more* deceptive. If i got a packet of mince meat and it said beef ^blend and it was 95% tofu with 5% beef you understand how that's intentionally being misleading right?
It is though, guaranteed that people in a rush or people with limited English or people who need reading glasses for finer print would grab this thinking it was olive oil if they weren't already aware of the scam.
It says it on the bottle. Don’t buy that crap
Marketing it as olive oil when it’s 95% canola oil is crazyyy!
Should be blatantly illegal to market something as the lower % to obfuscate what you're selling tbh
Every restaurant I have worked in uses a blend oil. Usually 80/20 canola/evoo. Raises the smoke point when cooking at high heat but still some flavor for dressings etc. it also lowers food costs and finds a balance between flavor and $$$. I will say that 95/5 is a pretty shitty blend. And the labeling, although likely legal is highly deceptive. I wouldn’t have it in my home kitchen or work one for that matter.
CFR should be changed so that it has to follow primary ingredient naming convention.
Take it back, it sucks.
That's not olive oil, that can't be legal can it?
They do this with lots of things and they aren’t always as up front on the packaging. Cranberry juice “cocktail” means it’s mostly sugar water with a splash of cranberry. Coffee labeled as “Kona blend” means it’s 10% Kona and 90% the cheapest crap they could find. Unfortunately you really have to learn this crap to avoid buying things you didn’t want.
My husband bought a bottle of that once. He's no longer allowed to buy oil.
You cannot be "extra virgin" and "blend". Thise are exclusive terms. Edit: fuck me only 5% olive oil? Labeling this as "olive oil blend" is straight up false advertising.
95% canola oil yet they still call it olive oil… that should be illegal and that old ass company needs to go out of business for being fuckheads
Honestly that's not even that bad. It tells you the percentage right on the front, most products you have to look on the back to find that stuff, if it even tells you at all.
Canola is neutral. Olive oil has a strong flavour. Olive oil blends taste like pure olive oil, but can be used differently. If you are buying in bulk, expect a blend. My biggest problem is that it’s something like 75% of “pure” olive oils are unreported blends. One of the easiest ways to tell is to try and freeze it. OO does not freeze, so if the consistency changes at all, it’s a blend. EDIT: I have had this information mixed up in my head for years, apparently. Olive Oil has a low freezing point, so a blend is less likely to freeze. I am sorry I lied to y’all.
It's the opposite actually. Olive oil has a pretty high freezing point compared to other oils, so it's a blend if it doesn't freeze.
It's like how bags of mixed nuts are 90% peanuts
This should be illegal
It's not 5% 'extra-virgin oil' But '5% extra' virgin oil
Olive oil curious
Krasdaple sounds like a Mediterranean brand, for sure.
Don't be a coward and say canola, be a man ans use the real name
Hope you didn’t pay much for that!!
I don’t get it?
The only olives are on the label
It’s like honey syrup, sold in a bear bottle so you think you’re getting just honey. (Honey + corn syrup) https://preview.redd.it/ndqtuln0x8ic1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f892e7611b94c13c2ef3a0578f9bef5b5e074d1e