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I always see Americans laughing when we French insist champagne is not champagne if it's not from the Champagne region. This is exactly the reason why we're ped
by thiht 4y ago
I always see Americans laughing when we French insist champagne is not champagne if it's not from the Champagne region. This is exactly the reason why we're pedantic about naming food products. Food products suck in the USA because naming doesn't seem to matter. Your parmesan is not parmesan, your champagne is not champagne, and now your truffle oil doesn't contain truffles. You might also want to check whether it's oil.
- Nursie 4y agoUnfortunately with truffle oil this is a problem everywhere. The aromatic compound referred to as “truffle flavour” or “truffle aroma” is so cheap and so ubiquitous it is hard to find a truffle oil without it, and the industry hides it behind these ambiguous descriptions. Perhaps this is not a problem in France, but in Australia it is the same. And AFAICT any truffle oil that lists any ingredient other than ‘oil, truffles’ has had this additive inserted in lieu of using enough truffles to flavour the oil. Many brands even try to disguise this by adding some small pieces of truffle.