Why Greek Olive Oil is the Best in the World

PR shill !!

Olive oil in Ancient Greece was not only a basic food, but also a symbol of good health and strength, and an actual medicine, as well as a source of magic, inspiring great awe for its powers.

Athletes and warriors would rub it all over their bodies, because they believed that it would give them strength and good luck, and the heads of nobles were anointed with it.

In other words, Greek olive oil, like Greece and the Greeks, hasn't changed since pre-Roman times and still clings to glories dead for two-and-a-half millennia.

True.

R3 - Whoa, if you're gonna start telling the truth around here, Nick and George are gonna start yelling!!

A cutting statement, but absolute truth.

Greek olive oil is best when it's lathered on the hard chiseled body of a muscular Greek hunk.

Top rated 2020

Spain in first 8 positions

Greece 9th

Portugal 10th

Results will vary, somewhat, but Spain is always the answer.

R5, it's a big mystery because Greek migrants have done so well everywhere but Greece!

But is it really olive oil?

I love olive oil. And I would orefer a sex partner rubbed down in it as opposed to Bear fat. (Sorry Native American DLers: I’m a vegetarian.

The good stuff is about $70-80 a bottle. But Greek is the best, if you can find it. Trader Joe’s has a Greek olive oil.

R9: I 'm a Spanish oil man, and know and live the specific tastes of the main types and blends, but if I were to buy Italian it would only be in Italy from a handful of small producers. Only then and after tasting it would I have reasonable confidence it wasn't the poor quality stuff widely available under misleading labels. Italian oil has been suspect for many years now, exported, even in Italy.

There are some good suppliers in the U.S. of imported oils, and even a couple of California producers who are not bad, but Americans don't have much knowledge of what they're buying (a fact the Italian Mafia has profited from handsomely, it seems.)

I heard Greek olive oil is prcessed in Italy, not Greece, because Greece is too poor/backward/corrupt/stupid. And I hear most Italian olive oil refinery plants are run by the mafia and you have NO reason to believe you are getting extra virgin olive oil and not (shudder) something else.....soybean oil or pure olive oil or Astroglide or something. So for the past several years I stick to buying Californian extra vigin olive oil. FUCK YOU GREECE. FUCK YOU ITALY.

Olive Oil Parody commercial

Andrea Martin as Sophia Loren

R12 Italy has plenty of great olive oil producers.

I prefer this . . .

R8 - that's very true. Greeks do succeed when they immigrate somewhere else.

Italian olive oil is 90% fake using canola oil, IIRC. (thanks, Naples mafia!) Not so with Greek and Spanish brands.

Greek olive oil is of course at its best when use to lubricate Turks.

Top 10 MOST POPULAR GREEK OLIVE OILS:

[quote]Italian olive oil is 90% fake using canola oil, IIRC. (thanks, Naples mafia!)

Bullshit.

Every reputable test of Olive Oil prefers Italian and Spanish oils.

That one California brand usually makes a good showing too.

Greek oils...at least what is available in the US.... are never ranked among the best.

I buy from a local specialty store (I love the lemon infused) and Trader Joe's. I think Trader Joe's has good buyers.

Infused oils are crap. It's a way to mask staleness, low quality.

is it better than Boy Butter?