ensenadajim > wrote:
>On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 00:53:05 GMT, Blair P. Houghton > wrote:
>
>>I like Sur la Table, but this is just dumb.
>
>snip
>
>>They're also selling a new brand called Marca Verde
>>Azienda Oliera de Chianti that has a number of things
>>printed on its back label that are translated in a variety
>>of languages. But one of the things it says is only
>>in Italian, and as best I can make out it says that the
>>markings, pictures, and names on the bottle do not indicate
>>the region of origin of the olive oil inside. The website
>>admits that greek olives are included with the Italian
>>ones, but looking at the bottle in the store you have
>>no way to tell.
>
>Wasn't there a discussion about Spanish olives being used in a lot of
>Italian olive oils?

Spanish and Tunisian mostly, but some Greek, and iirc
a little Turkish. They blend them all together, slap
a "Packed in Italy" label on it, and ship it to the
United States of Gullible.

Unfortunately, labels that actually say what's in the
bottle have gotten more rare this year for some reason.

One other interesting sighting at the SLT: French evoo.
I didn't buy it. Not low enough in price to be a whim.

--Blair