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California woman goes to Costco. Then she shows how to check if olive oil is ‘real’: ‘They teach us in culinary school’
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The Mary Sue
In the clip, which went viral with over 1 million views, Mary filmed while shopping for olive oil at Costco.
“This is your annual reminder that if your olive oil doesn’t have a harvest date, it’s not real,” she begins.
“It has to have”—here, she shows the harvest date on the bottle she’s purchasing—“a harvest date to be real.”Then she shares some information about olive oil regulation.
According to advice from the North American Olive Oil Association, a harvest date helps shoppers understand when olive oil loses its freshness, as real olive oil is generally only good for about two years.
This means that many olive oil bottles may be labeled as extra virgin, but consumers have no surefire way of knowing whether that’s true.