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| Italian police crack down on olive oil fraud |
| 2008-03-05 |
| Hugo sends "tank battalions" to the border? Gazprom threatens to cut the Ukraine's gas imports by half? Small potatoes compared to this Italian perfidy! |
| Posted by:mrp |
| #7 I popped into the grocery store this afternoon, because I'm actually going to cook dinner tonight. I noticed that a number of the pricier olive oils were marked as being wholly Italian, while others were labelled as made in Italy of oils or olives from several countries. No doubt there will be a cascading effect to the groceries and gourmet food stores. Icerigger, I'm sure Wegman's olive oil tastes like crap because it's made from cheap olives in presses that aren't cleaned quite often enough. I like Carapelli and Colavita. I think one claims to be Italian, the other is made in Italy from mixed sources. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-03-05 17:35 |
| #6 I wonder if that's why Wegman's tastes like crap. |
| Posted by: Icerigger 2008-03-05 17:01 |
| #5 According to the latest statistics, Italian olive production fell by 15 per cent last year, and the country does not produce enough olive oil to feed its domestic market. Illegal Italian olive oil? Doing the work Italians won't do. [Gee, I've heard something like that somewhere else :) ] |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-03-05 16:23 |
| #4 Uh oh. Someone's gonna end up hung upside down in a the piazza. |
| Posted by: ed 2008-03-05 15:35 |
| #3 Running a fake Ferrari on fake olive oil...mamma mia that's funny. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2008-03-05 14:07 |
| #2 Arrrgh, and the price of pasta - outrageous! |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2008-03-05 11:51 |
| #1 Maybe they can use it as biofuel to power all those counterfeit Ferrarris. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-03-05 11:22 |