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Part of me feels this is less objectionable than other fraud. If customers pay a premium for olive oil, even though they don't know enough to tell the differen
by jpttsn 10y ago
Part of me feels this is less objectionable than other fraud.
If customers pay a premium for olive oil, even though they don't know enough to tell the difference, I feel like the joke's on them. This is hard to justify, maybe I'm just a bad person.
As a corollary, if someone told me I had been duped in some similar way (eg. my bourbon is not actually from Kentucky) I'd question/blame my own judgement. Why do I pay for something when I can't even tell there's a difference?
Allergies are a separate matter, and I bet relevant labeling laws apply equally much, whatever you call the oil.
- vixen99 10y agoMany of us are a bit dumb when we start trying to be discriminating in the food and drink we consume. We won't get far in our culinary education if we're duped like this.
- jpttsn 10y agoAbsolutely. Yet in some cases perhaps we're so easily duped only because what we're learning to distinguish is not such a strong signal; it could be an education in overfitting. https://xkcd.com/915/ https://xkcd.com/915/