Comments on: “EU to ban olive oil jugs from restaurants”

By: peter

peter — Fri, 24 May 2013 07:45:45 +0000

The commission later admitted that they did not have a single instance of passing off actually having happened. And even if it did are there not existing laws to deal with the problem?

By: DensityDuck

DensityDuck — Thu, 23 May 2013 22:30:33 +0000

It’s in the article. It’s tossed off with some snark, but it’s there.

As for what customers can discern by taste, I direct you to the recent events in New Jersey’s bar scene.

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By: gitarcarver

gitarcarver — Mon, 20 May 2013 17:38:05 +0000

I am sorry Duck, but I don’t see that in the article at all.

The article does not cite one instance of someone getting sick or a restaurant “charging” for EVOO and then getting another grade.

It is the EU’s contention that they are protecting the diner for “hygiene,” issues and “the image of the olive” but unless I am missing them, I read no instances of the justification you gave within the article itself.

By: DensityDuck

DensityDuck — Mon, 20 May 2013 16:08:26 +0000

The olive-oil-container regulations make sense when you read the actual article. What’s been happening is that restaurants will advertise “extra-virgin top-quality hand-pressed olive oil”, charge like stink, and then present you with a nice glass bottle filled with cheap stuff from the local equivalent of Wal-Mart (which, moreover, has been getting topped off for the last six months instead of cleaned out and refilled, so you’re dipping your bread into a rancid bacteriafest.)