Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Green?

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So a photo entitled "ripe olives" includes olives that are both green and black

I want to sue because they have caused me pain and confusion in their labeling of olives.

Gonna take the case? :D

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Call me crazy but from one of the quotes above I would say that you are both right...
Fruit: The olive fruit is a green drupe, becoming generally blackish-purple when fully ripe. A few varieties are green when ripe and some turn a shade of copper brown. The cultivars vary considerably in size, shape, oil-content and flavor.
So some olives are green when they are ripe and some turn black or copper brown when they are ripe.

The point remains that whatever colour they might be, olives are minging!
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@meric@nwom@n wrote:
So a photo entitled "ripe olives" includes olives that are both green and black
!

I want to sue because they have caused me pain and confusion in their labeling of olives.

Gonna take the case? :D
I'm pretty sure I'd be representing Google on this one. Or the olive growers! Try Sue for personal injury representation :mrgreen:
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Aren't olives, God's little fat pill?

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Sean wrote: The point remains that whatever colour they might be, olives are minging!
Never mind Sean. When your taste buds have matured you will probably finally like them.

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loCAtek wrote:Aren't olives, God's little fat pill?
It's all good fat though, not the bad "trans" or saturated" fats.

It's good stuff for people like me with high cholesterol.
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When I first starting using the lower grade olive oil it tasted odd; the canola oil didn‘t taste that much different than regular cooking oils I was used too. But I kept using olive oil and got used to it, kind of an acquired taste.

It appears that I have been using the olive oil incorrectly. I have been using it to make southern corn bread. The batter is baked in oil at five hundred degrees. That is a little too hot for olive oil, right? At any rate I have gone back to using canola oil for the corn bread.
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I would agree entirely. Olive Oil is the wrong type to use for cornbread.
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Guinevere wrote:Yes, cold-pressed extra virgin olive oil has a greenish color. But be careful cooking with it -- cook with a lower grade olive oil which has a higher smoking point. The extra virgin is best used for salad dressings and other instances where you are not heating it.
One can preserve the flavor of olive oil when cooking it by combining it with a less flavorful oil with a higher smoking point. Grapeseed oil works very well for that purpose. It does not overwhelm the flavor of the olive oil, and (for scientific reasons which I do not understand) you only need a ratio of about 1:4.
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Good tip Andrew, I'll remember that one.
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Andrew D wrote:One can preserve the flavor of olive oil when cooking it by combining it with a less flavorful oil with a higher smoking point. Grapeseed oil works very well for that purpose.
That's what I use and it works perfectly. Same trick works for frying with butter.
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