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[Food] MIDDLE CLASS THREAD ALERT! EXTRA-VIRGIN OLIVE OIL! WTF???
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Rodney Thomas
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10 EURs a litre here minimum. It is crippling households.
Bad harvest and disease is causing a huge price increase.
Bad harvest and disease is causing a huge price increase.
Pevenseagull
Anti-greed coalition
- Jul 20, 2003
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Lard
Nobby Cybergoat
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- Jul 19, 2021
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virgins cost more?
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
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Personally I've saved a bit recently by down-shifting to Olive Oil that is Non-Extra Virgin. Every little helps 
Sorrel
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Good balsamic vinegar costs a lot more: https://www.finefoodspecialist.co.uk/groceries/specialist-vinegar/balsamic-vinegar
BrightonCottager
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The other day, it was the same price as Extra Virgin in Lewes Road Aldi.Personally I've saved a bit recently by down-shifting to Olive Oil that is Non-Extra Virgin. Every little helps
VAL1850
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In Spain they are putting alcohol type security tags on olive oil...
Boroseagull
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And tins of anchovies into security tagged boxes (Carrefour - Malaga this morning).
10 euro a litre minimum. I used to get a 5-litre bottle direct from a producer for 15 euro
It must be changing the way the nation cooks. I've certainly cut back massively.
In Spain at least, climate change is the culprit. Extreme heat and droughts has led to yields being well done. Last year production more than halved, I believe.
Can't see it getting better any time soon. Many regions have had to impose water restrictions on households due to reservoirs drying up.
- Mar 23, 2023
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There is no real alternative, health food shops might have rapeseed cold mechanically extracted otherwise it is the squashed, bleached, treated shit.
f***ing food company ****s.
f***ing food company ****s.
Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
I was reading a report the other day which said that large swathes of Southern Spain (inland) are now experiencing North African conditions much more frequently with extreme temperatures (summer and winter) and of course a multi-year drought. Some parts will become very hard to live in as the effects of climate change are felt in many areas in Southern Europe.10 euro a litre minimum. I used to get a 5-litre bottle direct from a producer for 15 euro
It must be changing the way the nation cooks. I've certainly cut back massively.
In Spain at least, climate change is the culprit. Extreme heat and droughts has led to yields being well done. Last year production more than halved, I believe.
Can't see it getting better any time soon. Many regions have had to impose water restrictions on households due to reservoirs drying up.
At least farming can move to adjust, many wild plants and animals don't have that luxury.
Official Old Man
Uckfield Seagull
I commented just a couple of weeks ago that it had gone up to £4.99
Now another £1.
Thought we'd be crafty and get some decent stuff in Rome but, as mentioned, it was even more in the supermarket we went to.
Now another £1.
Thought we'd be crafty and get some decent stuff in Rome but, as mentioned, it was even more in the supermarket we went to.
Same in Portugal……
Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
Hardly a surprise, same land-mass.
Did a bit of a tour last summer………awful to see the dried up rivers and land turning basically to desert.
I am wealthy beyond belief so, no issues for me.
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Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
Once the plants are dead, the top soil will be blown away or washed away in any heavy rain. And once the soils gone, it'll take centuries restore, if ever.
I know Spain and Portugal rely on reservoirs for a lot of their water, a quick google would suggest even these are close to inoperably low levels.
Drought latest in Spain: Malaga reservoir levels remain critical with NO rain forecast for the next week - Olive Press News Spain
RESERVOIR levels across Andalucia remain precariously low despite recent rainfall, new figures have revealed. It comes as the southernmost region of Spain
www.theolivepress.es
Please don't tell me there is an anchovy shortage? I'll have to nip out and raid the shelves for what's left.
Boroseagull
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Not so much a shortage of anchovies Harry - more the cost of production and canning them in olive oil. A small can (170gm) of quality ones now 8 euros more than double last years price.