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I dunno. If you taste olive oil from a trusted source (like at the grove where the olives are grown and perhaps pressed), and compare it with $random_storeboug

I dunno. If you taste olive oil from a trusted source (like at the grove where the olives are grown and perhaps pressed), and compare it with $random_storebought_brand, there's a major difference in taste. The difference doesn't make it objectively better for you, or even better tasting. But in a world where the phenomenon of olive oil adulterated with other oils is well documented[1], it's a legitimate question to ask why the small batch oil tastes different from the big box version. 1- https://www.epicurious.com/ingredients/seven-ways-to-tell-the-difference-between-real-and-fake-olive-oil-article https://www.epicurious.com/ingredients/seven-ways-to-tell-th...

dakom 4y ago
Gotta agree with this. I eat plenty of indestructible processed foods and whatnot, but had a friend who would harvest olives and have them pressed into oil. It's truly a different taste. Another Middle-Eastern staple that fits this trend is Hummus. I have never had store-bought that tastes the same as fresh (I mean fresh fresh, boiled properly from source, not from canned chickpeas) That said, I do think the parent is also right. Plenty of people are virtue signaling because it's trendy, not because of the actual difference.