Posted on 01/01/2024 5:30:29 PM PST by nickcarraway
Because usually I’m using grandma’s recipes, and she always baked using Mazola or shortening. Just never felt tempted to mess with it.
Besides, olive oil seems to have a taste that I don’t think would mesh well. Maybe with stuff like zucchini bread, but never tried it.
My wife and I eat a lot of it, more so myself.
About 1 liter per month...fresh.
Always organic. Usually California.
Worth every penny at current prices. It’s very good food.
This!
We have Job Lot up here in NE, plenty of foreign (Greek, Italian, Turkish) olive oils for sale cheap.And in large bottles. Seek, and ye shall find
OIL OIL
A Fossil fuel - Ban it.
First question that needs to be asked is: who owns or has control over the companies that make/distribute the olive oil companies?
“What is the solution?”
Settle for just plain ‘virgin’, or maybe even ‘almost virgin’. I always thought this fascination with ‘extra virgin’, though admirable, was maybe just a bit unrealistic.
Growing up Italian, we always had olive oil around. The wife and I love the stuff. First cold pressed is the best. Yup, I’ve noticed the price increases too, but we’ll keep on buying it.
We have been buying avocado oil occasionally, it’s got a higher smoking point when frying stuff, and tastes good.
Lard. It’s healthier than butter. Washes off cookware in hot water better than any other oil.
Bacon fat.
BOGO at Publix once every 13 weeks or so or bought from Costco...
I have someone raising a Mangalista for me. We’ll have plenty of the best lard.
Overtaxed, over regulated Euro food.
My grocer has 92 separate olive oil skus from all over God’s green earth. That is not an exaggeration and obv not a shortage.
I didn’t know she was still hookin’.
"Of any crop grown in the United States, conventional cotton is the third greatest user of pesticides - and pesticide use on cotton is growing (Between 2011 and 2019, the number of conventional cotton acres in the U.S. that were treated with pesticides increased by roughly 38%).
"Most cotton varieties are genetically modified also.
So there's that.
I am 69, eat what I want, smoke cigarettes and have no health problems.
I realize that YMMV and that of others too.
That said, lard does not clog arteries.
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