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How can something be EXTRA virgin? That's the question that started this video but quickly unraveled into the slippery world of olive oil fraud. Major brands have been accused and convicted of selling fake olive oil; the extent of the criminality varies from the relatively harmless to surprising lies. In this video, Sabrina explores the nomenclature of olive oil and convinces Melissa to do a splash of olive oil fraud, kinda.
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Extra Virginity by Tom Mueller
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Introduction
01:19 Research
02:04 How Olive Oil is Virgin
03:27 How Olive Oil is EXTRA Virgin
05:02 How to Commit Olive Oil Fraud
07:10 Sabrina makes an unreasonable requests
08:18 Melissa does her best
11:05 Sabrina got Melissa to drink oil lmao
14:04 tldr we live in a society
15:48 pls share our videos
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Welcome to the joke under the fold! Turns out olives aren't that ripe with puns but here's a seasonal one that it very very silly.
Did you know that Santa actually has 10 reindeer? You may know Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, and Rudolph, but do you remember Olive? You know, Olive, the other reindeer, used to laugh and call him names!
That pun was worse than usual. I'm sorry. Leave a comment with the word OLIVE to let me know you were here ;-)
I hope you enjoyed that video! Do you like olive oil? Did you know it was supposed to be spicy because it's apparently supposed to be spicy ???
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I'm from the region that produces most of the olive oil on Earth, Andalucia (Spain) and here, if it's not a bit "spicy" (if it is spicy, it stays on the tong) then it's not good olive oil (also, the deeper the green the better, I have pics of different types if you want to know)
So Sabrina..... Acidity - you did find out what that means in olive oil right????
It is the percentage of free oleic acid . So this oleic acid is the good of virgin olive oil. if you damage the olive, or press it with heat, then the oil is broken in three (I cannot find the source, but the olive oil molecule is a three part thingy)
I can send you pictures from the live harvest of me and my parents. The cold press and green olives we picked has only a 10% olive oil per weight. We got 50 litres for 500 kilos of olives.
Yes, but I was fortunate enough that, buying olive oils in my job, I had the priviledge to visit small cooperative olive oil producers in Andalucia producing a real great extra virgin olive oil, though there's slight differences to the one you produced in the video - might have to do with the fresh olives going straight from the trees to the oil mill though. XD
olive oil... olive oil merch :)
@@javiskii
So, what brands are you aware of that pass the overall test for purity. Thoughts?
"your olive oil might be fake"
*me who just left a Moroccan olive farm with a gallon of olive oil*: my olive oil might be WHAT
Living the life I see 😩
Find out if they're likely to have diluted it with industrially processed oils such as soy, etc. Hopefully less likely in Morocco; but that certainly occurs in Italy.
the way I cackled at this
Hahah you can actually see the difference between olive oil you get from a farm and the one in supermarkets btw how much does it cost in your area? Mine is around 47.5dhs/liter
Me, a Southern European whose family has produced olive oil at home for centuries: Sounds about right!
"Your Olive Oil is fake!"
My greek ass putting olive oil on everything because we have a million olive trees per square kilometer : WHAT
All Mediterraneans (including me): *spits water* no, don’t do this to me
@རཨེ་མོན་ད། ལོ་རྡེ་ཧྨུན། 🤣😂😁👍
Me a turkish boi who collected his olives from trees himself and took them to press: EXCUSE ME
@@anonim6728 Those pesky pressers and their secret fake oil injectors in their presses!
My favorite olive oil is from Greece.
"How can something be EXTRA Virgin?"
*record pauses*
Yeah, that's me.
i bet you're wondering how i end up in this situation
Same. I've never even been kissed
@@poppyrose1549 ayyyyyy
"Hey all, Scott here, and BOY do I like olive oil!"
just be a redditor
Sabrina really got a job writing book reports
lmfaooo u rlly went for my neck 😭
@@answerinprogress 😆
"virgout" is so thoroughly in my vocabulary forever
It was popularised by Hank Green when talking about lexical gaps on vlogbrothers (2010 ish I think)
virgout? no thanks, I wanna stay in
@@ravenjoker254 not like that'll happen
@@Luna-ne3dq *aggressive zip*
You know that laugh that bert and ernie does? Yeah that was me just then when I heard her say it hahaha
I love that "Sabrina and Melissa commit minor food crime" is a thing on this channel
really invites us to amp it up to major food crime next time.
@@answerinprogress pass off horse meat as beef?
@@Thebluebridgetroll i had to read your comment twice after i thought you wrote "pass off horse meat as beer?" lol
@@answerinprogress Suspicious handling of salmon?
@@answerinprogress If the next video isn't "we prisoned a flour mill, killing thousands", I'm unsubscribing
- Melissa saying yes to everything
"Oh, no, those are all the negative attributes."
I died.
i hope you get better!!!
@@wackyanimations3326 😂 I hope you being sarcastic
Shout out to Melissa for taking one for the team
Hope she stays safe from the IOC.
Olive oil is serious business.
that bdg reference was highly irrelevant and was for no more than a second but it was incredibly important to me, thank u sabrina, i feel so seen in this olive video,
how can i justify reading a 300 page long book about olives for a youtube video if im not gonna make a bdg reference.
It was amazing *chef kiss*
Wait, what reference?
@@cloud_and_proud when she says unraveled
@Erik Hetler I dunno how I missed that.
"They spin out around until they squirt". The pause that followed that was a weird moment of self-reflection 😂😂😂
Same! Immediately liked after that comment
“No.. that’s not the right one..” 😅
The shop saying they had fresh olives when they didn't is the most relatable thing about this.😆
I find it infuriating the fact that shop owners lie to you to lure you to their shop in hopes you would end up buying something else from their store.
@@omairtech6711 - I am not confident that the person on the phone knew what was being referred to with "fresh olives".
Might have been thinking that they do have olives, and that they are indeed still fresh / perfectly in-date for consumption.
@@Siberius- I would even say, that fresh olives might not be sold at all. I mean, the reason for them being preserved in any given way might be that they could spoil very quick.
Also, different than for example blueberries, there is not a big market of people who want to buy the product on a daily basis. While blueberries are available in the shop here in Europe all year through, they are a seasonal product and have to be imported during the winter from somewhere else. Same would be true for olives and as I just said, there are not that much people baking olive muffins.
Hearing Melissa say she never actually saw fresh olives in her life got me so confused as a Spainard. I was like "girl? there are shops dedicated just to sell different types of olives and somehow you can find chips in there too?" Such a cultural shock
Yeah, as a Sicilian, that really was kinda shocking.
I'm 16 and it's like 6 years that I help my dad doing our own oil
Same case as a Lebanese. Kinda saw through it tho.
First time I saw fresh olives was in Israel.
Here in Italy you pretty much just need to take a walk outside to see olive trees in most regions
American here. To my knowledge there are two kinds of olives, green and black. The distinction seems to be purely cosmetic.
The lower quality "Pomace Oil" is used in a lot of bottled salad dressings, its used in breads, and is the primary sauté oil at a lot of restaurants.
You HAVE seen and tasted it, you just didn't realize it.
didnt know id be a criminal today
woke up and chose crime today
this isn't the crime i was expecting to commit today
The secret ingredient is crime
Laughs in living in Spain, where proper IOC compliant extra virgin oil is created a few kilometers from home and it's actually pretty cheap
I was thinking, this video is only about the US right? Cause I don’t think we have this problem in Spain.
I'm portuguese and actually know the people that make olive oil in my area
local olive oil production privilege :)
You only find that where it is made.
My mother in law takes home a lot of bottles of olive oil each year. Like they always brought a suitcase full of food back home.
The difference is that most people haven't actually tasted good olive oil. Like in the netherlands it isn't typical to just dip bread in good olive oil, because it isn't that good with the olive oil you buy here unless it is super expensive. Which most don't buy
Heck yeah bread and oilllllll
Me, lebanese, where my dad literally drinks olive oil and we put olive oil in and on everything except water "ah yes, olive oil, the delicacy"
ok 45 seconds in but we need too appreciate the motion tracking "no free promo" graphic. oml the things you do for QUALITY 😭
I SPOKE TOO SOON ALL OF THE GRAPHICS BRUHHH
Melissa missed an opportunity to make an olive milk latte, painnn
ANOTHER CLASSIC these videos are starting to reming me of 99% Invisible with the deep dives into everyday items I'm really enjoying keep it up!!!!!
Someone who is really passionate about making cool videos.
Bro! I instantly subscribed after that. Anyone willing to add those small details deserves the world
Olive oil is very important in the Jewish holiday of Chanukah so my primary school did a yearly presentation where an oil maker would put a bunch of olives in this weird bucket, add wooden blocks on top and sort of clamp down on the olives to extract oil. Just felt relevant to mention
That's really cool 👍🏾
I wonder if it had to do with kosher practice.
Best Olive Oil I ever tasted was a bottle I bought on a market in Israel. It was a real "oh wait, that's what it is supposed to taste like?"-moment and that actually helped me distinguish the genuine stuff from the fake ones in supermarkets just by taste.
Thats a winepress, a lot of people in Slovakia have their own for making home made wine from grapes
That's so cute!
"It's t h i c c, it's s a l t y, it's definitely not olive oil."
No, Melissa, you just drank my soul.
It will never cease to amaze me that olive oil is considered fAnCy, when in Greece is used almost more than salt.
True, but we all have relatives chasing us around about the "finer" olive oil their uncle/cousin/friend from the village sent.
revirginated olive oil
"Go ahead, call the cops. You can't re-virgin your virgin olive oil"
Spaniards hate when spanish olive oil its sold as italian because its one of the best things of spanish food (witch I have to say, it's highly underrated )
As someone who loves Spain (hispanophile?) I can attest to the fact that Spanish oil is DIVINE
@Lexdrillo as it should be, spain is the largest producer (I think)
@@TheHorseOutside a toast with olive oil and jamón, my every day breakfast !!
@@alexbutragueno737 !que aproveche!
cries in portuguese
That extra virgin olive oil is like 5€ per liter here in Spain, they really scam you when importing it with that price gauge. Also, many of us don't use it to cook, we use it for dressing salads and food that don't get hot, we use more normal olive oil to cook
I only buy extra virgin and use to both cook and as dressing. So does most people i know...
@@abcoh4440 Americans?
@@Naruedyoh nop, spaniards.
@@Naruedyoh yo solo compro 1 tipo de aceite y lo uso para todo
I know people who use extra virgin oil both for everything, and only for dressing.
The difference I noticed is that people who use it only for dressing tend to do so because they think it's very expensive and they don't want to "waste money". It may be not as expensive as in the US, but expending €5/$6 on a bottle every two weeks is kind of a lot for a lot of people, specially when you compare it to other cheaper oils. Even among those who use it for everything think it's expensive, but they think the "sacrifice" is worth it.
The weirdest thing about not having a sense of smell is when someone says something has a smell when you didn't expect it to. Like olive oil and olives having different smells.
someone asking how something can be "extra-virgin" clearly hasn't spent enough time on the internet
the smol bdg cameo was perfect hahahahah
rip unraveled.
He’s done a couple great videos on his own channel since leaving polygon.
@@kelzbelz313 oh, and he's done a bunch of videos in his own channel while still in polygon hhahahahaha i'm a fan
@@kelzbelz313 Did he quit polygon?
@@daklhs6460 yeah, he posted his last video with them a couple months ago. He’s doing some great videos in his personal channel as well as some freelance stuff.
Watched to the end, liked and commented for the algorithm.
Great vid!
"Is your Bruschetta a con artist? find out as Sabrina and friends unravel another mystery"
Melissa: How to beautify your body using detox
Sabrina: Let's commit fraud
13:52
And this was the last time Melissa talked with Sabrina... 🙂
I’m just waiting for my local coffee shop to start offering olive milk
"Virgin oil" - It saves cultists time and effort.
I had to come back after leaving the video because I got the joke lmaoo
man why are you doing all this cool research into useless but really interesting things. this is pretty much most of the food industry it feels
NOT REALLY USELESS. If it is interesting 🥲
"It's kinda dry" and talking about the acidity in the oil - Are we sure this isn't the wine video again?
I am wondering two things, what free acidity is, and how it relates to pH
I really like the collabs you do with your friends, its such a lighthearted funny part of the video, I love it. You keep knocking it out of the park with videos like this
1:56 "If any of that sounds insteresting to you"
It does, actually. * furiously searches for the witchcraft part *
I've been a virgin for almost 22 years. So you could say I am "extra virgin".
I'm from Morocco but grew up in the Netherlands. In Morocco we L O V E olive oil, and my immigrant mom literally has a family member make the olive oil for her (yes, in a farm), then ship it to us in gallons. Just wanted to share this funny cultural thing lol.
In Turkey we learn all this in high school chem class, for some reason...
Oil and water separation or something.
Fun fact: in ancient mediterranian cultures, like romans and greeks, olive oil was commonly used as a lubricant. Yes. THAT kind of lubricant.
Well, they didn't find the body i'm hiding yet, so i doubt they know about my illegal olive oil.
"they didn't find the body i'm hiding yet"
The FBI agent monitoring you: *well, well, well...*
“I thought that was going to be a lot harder”
*takes train*
Canada's really big, after all 😂
Dedication
Welcome to Toronto!
In many countries, taking a train is the most normal thing in the world. I'm Dutch and I take trains literally everywhere
You definitely live in the middle eastern US do you?
"You might own an illegal substance."
*Looks down at bags on floor*
Yeah
I went to a uni that was based as an agricultural school, we had olive trees all over campus and even though they looked like decoration, they weren't, they were harvested every year and different products were made from them, including evoo (which could be bought in the campus bookstore lol). The uni has a LOT of different studies/faculties going on there, but no matter what your major was, a student almost always came out of that school knowing some things about agriculture (it's one of the first unis in the States to have a viticulture and brewing school where you could even get a master's in those subjects). As for olive oil, one thing we all learned was if you lived in a region of the world that produced its own olive oil, 9 times out of ten you should buy olive oil from that region, less time in shipping and sitting on the shelf means better quality, and with oils that can go rancid, this is a big factor.
I was going to make a "slippery situation" joke but then you made it and now I don't actually have anything important to comment
A video about ✨forbidden✨ olive liquid? Sign me uppp 👀
I love how Melissa is your "ride or die" who you can depend on for your crazy plans!
I'm from Spain and we have different types of olive oil widely available here, in any supermarket you'll find at least an extra virgin and a refined one. There's usually variety within those as well though, depending on the type of olive used or how strong the taste is. I thought this was normal until I went to live in the US for a year and there I only saw the extra virgin kind. I have to say I'm not surprised it may be fake oil because fairly often the taste was pretty different from the one here. It definitely was much milder and reminded me more of the refined oil than the extra virgin one.
Tbh that explains more my frustration while watching the video. I didn't understand how they weren't familiar with the different types(just the types, not production etc) of olive oil and how they couldn't taste the difference? I mean, they apparently have tasted olive oil and felt kinda familiar with the concept, so I couldn't figure out how confusing this could be. At the end of the video starting realising that they probably have only one type and probably from a not-actually-olive-oil kinda brand.
I love how the caothic energy fo sabrina is also going to melissa
This was a very good video and entertaining to watch as well
the humor in this video was genuinely great, like actually laughing out loud multiple times great
I love Sabrina's speaking voice and the editing. This reminds me of the quality of a major media company's video content. Great job
I'm so glad that you talked about this! It's actually a HUGE problem because a lot of people have dietary restrictions that make them sicker when they consume canola/vegetable oil. For those people their options are typically avocado and olive oil, and most prefer olive. They often don't even know that they continue to have symptoms because of the fraudulent oil, which causes them to further restrict their diet looking for a solution, or even giving up. It's horrible, these companies profit off of worsening peoples' sicknesses. As a tip, actual olive oil MUST be stored in dark containers, so while dark container =/= real, clear container = real. Cooking with lard is a great option (easy to make it yourself so you can be sure it's real), but the flavor makes it incompatible with a lot of dishes.
Turns out my country is a founding member of the IOC, which means that olive oil is one of the many things we have better here than in North America
why did just watching melissa call about olives give me call anxiety
I literally forwarded through that part for the same reason omg!
You have the perfect balance of an interesting topic, transitions to keep my easily distracted mind entertained, and well-delivered jokes. And you’re POC!! Idk makes u relatable
I can't get over how amazing your videos are from a production standpoint. Everything from the camera quality/angles to the audio to the motion graphics to tracking and masking that "no free promo" bubble has me floored. Keep up the amazing work!
The animation is absolutely stunning! And I really enjoyed all of Melissa's reactions to Sabrina's (frankly over-the-top) request lol
Finally I have committed a crime
A few years ago, my dad got a tiny bottle of high quality olive as a participation prize for running a half marathon. I had some on a bit of bread and instantly realized that all the olive oil I'd had before that was either old or cut with something else - this was just So Olive-y.
It's unfortunately really common that most grocery store olive oils are either really rancid, heavily refined, or cut with something cheaper like soybean oil - especially anything labelled 'light'. Olive oil should taste and smell like olives with a peppery finish to it.
The video was great, very interesting and well made, but I'm amazed at how you managed to make a video about olive oil and not mention Spain a single time. Spain literally produces TEN times the olive oil Italy does., and just as good of course.
i go to the coments to say the sme. but spain produces like 5 or 6 times more, not 10. te has pasao ahí XD
How is it possible that I'm just now realizing I've never seen fresh olives in a store?
Is Italian olive oil supposed to be the best? In Brazil we often think of Portuguese olive oil as best
shh, melhor se continuar a ser segredo 😁
In Britain, Italian cuisine is much more prevalent than other olive oil-producing countries, so Italian oil gets the most exposure. If the shop has a range of olive oils, there might be some other origins, I've seen Greek and Spanish before.
The distinction is more about Italian vs. unknown origin, rather than rating the countries against each other.
@@emilymartin5418 thanks! That really explains a lot!
I had good oil from greece, spain and italy, in the end the climate is similar and the conditions comparable. Of course there will be differences, but that's also true from region to region like in wine.
The best olive oil is Italian; however, if you don't live in Italy, more likely than not you are better off NOT buying oil sold as "Italian" (except maybe from Eataly, but they will rip off you an arm and a leg). If you consider that Italy consume twice as much olive oil than they produce, you can form a rough estimate of your chances of buying genuine Italian olive oil. Also, if you are not buying the super extra fancy stuff, Spanish and Greek oils are as good as the Italian ones, with less chances of adulteration.
There once was a man who was allergic to olives. After realizing he accidentally ate a pizza that had them he calmly paused his chewing and said, “S’all good I’ll live”😉
Living in California, I know we grow a lot of olives in this state and I’m just like hey, why do we need Italian olive oil? We could be making olive oil on par with the greats but we keep the price and quality low instead!
"How can something be extra virgin"
Reddit.
I discovered this channel yesterday from a video featuring Tom Scott. I watched most of the videos now. I never laughed as much before on a video. You have a new fan! It is even better that you are also from Canada!
Thanks for your video. When I learned that there was a lot of fake olive oil in the world, I decided not to ever buy imported ever again. I'm in the USA and I decided to only buy olive oil grown in California. I figure that anyone claiming their EVOO is grown in California would face great scrutiny in that state, and likely be called out for any discrepancy. So there is a brand called California Olive Oil, and they do have their own farm groves and they harvest, press and bottle it. They sell both 100% California grown (more expensive), and blends of imported EVOO, from companies they trust. I don't know if I should trust them, but since it appears likely that I can, that is what I've used for several years.
I really expected to see that you had millions of subscribers .. you seriously deserve more subs! And your animation is subliiiime omg 🥰
Those chapter titles lmao
I'm sorry, I still can't over the "You made olive milk"
this content is deeply enjoyable, i love the dynamic all three of you have, its fucking hilarious
that olive oil torture segment, i started crying
I'm glad you brought it up because this really did feel like the sequel to the wine video. Great job!
I kinda cried at the BDG unreavel reference
you'll really got me here watching a whole video about olive oil, not how I imagined my day to go...🤣
Sabrina the new format with your friends works super well!
I love how involved she is in all this videos and how high quality this videos are.
i can hear the boss battle music playing in melissa's head whenever sabrina calls her for a video
This was actually pretty interesting, I don’t know why but I am somewhat interested in that olive oil book especially the chemistry and understanding more of the fraud behind the industry. Plus I actually feel bad for Melissa that she had to drink that lol
We have missed you
You and your friend are so cute xD that first phone convo is literally me everytime I talk to ppl
This video made me wonder if Sabrina is either a really good friend to have or a really bad friend to have.
Sabrina is so amazing, i just subscribed to u! ur so talented and i love the balance of information and humour in ur videos, very much enjoyed it, u rlly seem like a cool person too!
This is the first video I've ever seen from this channel and I'm so grateful the algorithm showed it to me. This was so educational and funny!
In Virgin olive oil, the olives are crushed and blended, centrifuge is used to separate oil from water (since olives have both) I suggesting looking at videos of the process
Now I’m just going to be thinking about olive milk all day.
Another great video! Really makes me happy how this channel is growing day by day.
Speaking of oils, will you talk about the myths about mustard oil? In this Indian subcontinent, it's a famous cooking oil and consumed regularly, while many of the countries (including EU, USA, and Canada) have banned mustard oil for consumption. I've seen many popular dieticians talking about the benefits of mustard oil and it really has gone out of hand. I couldn't find anything reliable on the internet which refers to this oil as "good for health". I'm really confused. I can't figure out where all of these started.
Ahh your production quality and writing and presenting are all SO GOOD Sabrina SO GOOD
Virgout.. Thanks for the new word. Best thing I learned from this video.
I really thought extra virgin olive oil was super fancy shamncy as well!?!🧐🧐🤔
It's 6AM in Spain, I have watched a bunch of your videos in the last hour or two...honestly time has flown, so glad I stayed in on this rainy/cold Friday, well I guess Saturday now lol.
I LOVE ALL OF THEM! New suscriber, clicked the bell I'm so glad I found this channel.
PS. Melissa drinking that olive oil and describing it with such pain made me laugh out loud so much I think I might have woken up my neighbours, oops haha.
I just found your videos through recommended and I've been binging them since. I just wanted to say thank you for this high quality content. You and your friends appear insanely charismatic and this content is well reasearched and has such a high production quality. It's been a while since I've been that amazed by a content creator. There is so much attention to detail, like the non binary gender graph in the dating video. I do 3d, motion design & such stuff for work and I've always been keeping myself from starting an actual CZcams channel. Your videos might just push me over the edge to actually get started! Keep up making these awesome videos!
6:57 "Unravel"
I'll miss BDG's Unraveled :(
I thought I was allergic to olive oil for a good few years, until I found out I’m actually allergic to a different oil that is used as filler in olive oil. It’s a slippery slope, quite literally
Thanks for this video, and the book recommendation! I've been curious about this for years, and that book sounds fascinating!
"You may own an illegal substance"
Me: "How did you-" *runs to my room*
"It's olive oil"
Oh...
Buy Spanish Olive oil, Spain produces most of "Italian" oil anyway and it's better as the industry behind oil is extremely protected and developed. Italians are good at branding, spaniards are good at making the actual thing, if you buy Italian you're probably getting more expensive less quality Spanish stuff anyway...
This video yeeted me to 2015 when I visited Israel for 6 weeks on a trip with a group and at one point we went to a random place that used to be an ancient olive oil refinery, and we got to use a model but functional ancient olive press to make olive oil 😂😂😂 such a specific memory that I thought I would never be relevant ever again
This is the first video I’ve watched from this channel and I am definitely about to watch a lot more
Did you know that there is also Saffron fraud and shady tactics as well?
By the way super good video people i know never pay attention to the type of oil they buy. There is also the fact that oils like grapeseed and others that don't have a naturally oily base, have higher heat tolerances due to the exaction methods. Keep up the good work you two