Tariffs aside, regulations mean the EU rarely imports certain US products, such as meat and dairy.
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When i was living in the US because i had to for work none of their olive oil tasted like olive oil. Turns out there was a study that showed that 80% of supermarket olive oil in the US is fake.
Yeah their products are shoddy. You do not sell fake olive oil to a European. Living around the Mediterranean your whole life you learn to tell immediately when someone is fucking with your olive oil.
Olive pil wasn’t a thing on the states until the 80’s. We get all the shittiest olive oil that is produced in the Mediterranean because they can sell their inferior products at a markup here.
I mean, my italian friend was telling me how this is also done in Italy. He watched a documentary, and they were mixing olive and colza. So nothing really new. But the new deregulation of the government is worrying.
What I remember was how sweet their may was , yuk.
Yeah, “impure” olive oil is not endemic to America. Adulterating olive oil is big business and Europe isn’t immune. (Though Europe has laws on the subject that the US does not.)