Mel Gibson Exposing About Food!
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almost ALL of the olive oil that makes it to america, is adulterated or lies.
The oil industry in Italy is mob run, so even IF costco thinks its 100% italian oil, its been cut with inferior olive oils before it gets here.
Tons of documentaries on this topic on youtube. But 99% of ALL "made in italy" olive oils, are not 100% italian.
Its a sad fact. I once went to italy and picked my own olives and took them to a local press (one family runs their batch for a few hours, then the next group) and I took home some NEON GREEN fresh EVOO, and it was THE BEST fucking olive oil I've ever had. NOTHING compares to what I know is 100% unadulterated evoo. The look, the smell, the taste, almost every oil on American shelves, IS NOT PURE italian oil....
Edit: Some pics from my oil pressing, and fresh bread they had us put our 4 minute old olive oil onto to taste test our production run: https://i.imgur.com/DxfDfiU.jpeg
Well that is disappointing news. I thought my source was the holy grail of olive oil. Nevertheless thank you for the heads up.
I mean, it IS, as its the best oil there is, but nobody knows exactly whats in there. The italian mob controls almost ALL of the oil leaving italy, so do not trust what the label says, its likely been watered down at every step with olive oils from nearby cheaper countries. And you never know how much or with what, as they obviously wont tell you what or how much they cut.
Just do a quick search on youtube for "fake italian olive oil" and start learning up, lots of big name companies (like business insder, etc) have done stories on this topic. Its RAMPANT for italin olive oil to never be pure, unmolested oil. Which is why the stuff I pressed, bottled, and took pictures of at every step of the process, was so fucking delicious, it was 100% pure and I know for a FACT it was legit, since it never left my company
Yes I believe you because I can tell you spent a lot of time on research into this subject.
While I think the Costco brand is better than many of the others but it is not up to the holy grail Olive oil that you discovered.
When you swallow your brand does it go down rugged like it chokes you? So that you have to follow up with water?
Huh?
I was only able to bring home 3 liters (my family friend's olive farm only had like 90 trees, and the harvest took 3 days and netted us all like 30 liters think?)
But AT the pressing place (was two small rooms) they provide you fresh bread slices so you can pour some brand new olive oil to taste it. It was DELICIOUS on italian fresh bread. It had a spicey kind of freshness I dunno how to describe, aside from it being packed with smooth flavor.
Iunno about having to drink water as shooters or anything, it wasn't that bad. here are some pics from us pressing and eating the oil within minutes of being pressed: https://i.imgur.com/DxfDfiU.jpeg
What about the Greek and "middle eastern" varieties?
I don't know. I just know the mob has a stranglehold on italian EVOO, and adulteration and watering down with inferior olive oils happens at every step of the process, and America is left with unknown, falsified origin oils. Sad, but thats how it is.
Yebbit...Surely, the Olive Garden has the BEST oil
You better know I'm kidding...lol
I get mine from Greece, single source. Ellora Farms. Expensive but awesome.
I think the idea is single source as in from a single country so it can be tracked to the grower, not many countries and many growers that water down the product.
Just look at the lable on the bottle and if it says sourced from like six countries I would pass.
Try the Costco Kirkland brand from Italy and traced back to the growers.