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> Olive oil from California is also much cheaper than Olive Oil from Italy.

Where do you buy cheap Californian olive oil? Whenever I’ve seen it for sale (rarely) it’s always a more premium product available only in medium sized glass bottles while Italian olive oil is available in large plastic containers.



Ah hah, the marketers are at it again.

If you go to Safeway.com, there are clearly a couple different ‘markets’ or sub-verticals in olive oil. Glass bottle ‘fancy’, plastic jug ‘bulk’, and large metal jug/tin ‘medium fancy bulk’.

Looking at the sub-categories, it it seems like Italian extra virgin is typically about 2x in price of Californian equivalents within a given sub-category, but there are some Californian brands coming close to equivalent.

Like Californian wines vs French.

Each sub-category for oil has its equivalent of 2 buck chuck of course.




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