There Are No Truffles in Truffle Oil (2014)

Re:There Are No Truffles in Truffle Oil (2014) by Ygg2 on Thursday September 08, 2016 @11:10AM (#12453713)

    > Ingredients:
    > Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Truffle Extract

That's like a double lie, right there. If they are cheap enough to skimp on Truffles, what is to say, they aren't cheap enough to skimp on Virgin Olive Oil?

     > Honest ingredients:
     > Sunflower oil, Olive flavor, Truffles flavor*
     
       * which might have at one point passed near a guy
         that ate actual Truffles

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Re:There Are No Truffles in Truffle Oil (2014) by koolba on Thursday September 08, 2016 @11:34AM (#12453960)

I'm sure the explanation is that: "Extra" refers to them using a larger portion than normal, "Virgin" is the company name of their supplier, "Olive" is a variety of sunflower seed, and there is a missing dash in "Truffle Ex-Tract".

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Re:There Are No Truffles in Truffle Oil (2014) by dsugarman on Thursday September 08, 2016 @11:42AM (#12454040)

It is estimated that 70% of Olive Oils in super markets are fraudulent so I definitely don't think truffle oil contains the good stuff.

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Re:There Are No Truffles in Truffle Oil (2014) by shostack on Thursday September 08, 2016 @05:00PM (#12457276)

I just read somewhere that the only Whole Foods 365 evoo that is actually pure and unblended is their California one and not any of the other Mediterranean country ones. Super sketchy. This should be outlawed.

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Re:There Are No Truffles in Truffle Oil (2014) by scythe on Thursday September 08, 2016 @05:44PM (#12457620)

It is outlawed. Organized crime controls a shocking proportion of the European olive oil market. For the last several years, I've exclusively bought olive oil grown and produced in America. To my knowledge, it's all real.

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Re:There Are No Truffles in Truffle Oil (2014) by twism on Thursday September 08, 2016 @12:53PM (#12454725)

probably in addition to the honest ingredients the sunflower oil has been known to fraternize with the palm and coconut oil

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Re:There Are No Truffles in Truffle Oil (2014) by twism on Thursday September 08, 2016 @12:55PM (#12454752)

... oh and try the truffle flavored veal

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Re:There Are No Truffles in Truffle Oil (2014) by caf on Friday September 09, 2016 @02:56AM (#12460118)

Or canola oil

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