[Artemis Webb]

The new rules kick in in October. Honestly I'm glad to see it.

[Riley]

Extra virgin, light, with lemon, unfiltered, cold-pressed: the variety of olive oil on most supermarket shelves is dazzling. But what does it all mean?

Don Vito will make sure that they buy it- whatever it is.

(From the book, not the movie.)

[JRandomFreeper]

If you need the FedGov to explain olive oil to you, you might be a pro-government statist.

/johnny

[JRandomFreeper]

Seriously, now that I think about it, what part of the Constitution gives the federal government the power to regulate what we call our food? And how can a conservative think that government over-reaching is a GoodThing(tm)?

/johnny

[JoeProBono]

[mnehring]

Honestly I'm glad to see it.

Never thought I would see FReepers cheer for Big Brother being the language police.. but today is weird. Earlier today we had some guy rooting for those Hippie pirate Sea Shepards.

[OldDeckHand]

So am I. There’s nothing wrong in demanding standards and transparency in marketing guidelines. If you market your olive oil as “extra virgin”, it had better be “extra virgin”, meeting a well-defined standard. This is exactly like our standards of gold. Gold sold as 18k had better be 18k, or someone’s going to be looking at fraud charges.

[tophat9000]

So in the the Popeye cartoon; Was Olive Oil a virgin or extra virgin?

[maine-iac7]

If the feds are going to stick their noses into our refrigerators and kitchen cabinets and take the salt shakers off our tables - let them first do something about the areas WE CANNOT.

Get that damnable HFCS (High Fructose Corn Syrup) out of our foods. Read your labels on juices, sodas, cereal, candy, soups, ANYTHING you buy - and 95% of the time, youe will the poison, High Fructose Corn Syrup.

is sounds innocent. IT IS NOT. “Wonder why we have an obesity explosion in this country?

I've been writing about this for years. They're finally catching up - but it will take a lot to get this poison out of our foods. (It's banned in Canada, the UK and other places.)

Here's one article - from Princeton Research - but just GOOGLE ‘high fructose corn syrup.

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/91/22K07/

[GSWarrior]

Whew. It will be safe to go back into the kitchen.

[1010RD]

Ridiculous and a continuation of the dumbing down of the American public.

Caveat emptor - always.

[OldDeckHand]

Over 60 replies about “olive oil”. A little surprising, I must say.

[Terry Mross]

I thought extra virgin had a higher burn tempature.