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Warpy

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6. All you can do with olive oil is find one you like the taste of
Tue Jan 22, 2013, 06:30 PM
Jan 2013

and stick to it. Even if it's adulterated with canola, it's still something that tastes good and is reasonably good for you.

I drink PG Tips tea from the UK. It's the cheap stuff they put into the Fortnum's box over there to try to fool guests. I've always assumed it's the floor sweepings they get after a day of blending premium teas. If there are grass clippings in it, they're very tasty grass clippings.

The other thing I drink is Chinese jasmine tea. You'd think anything from China would be adulterated, but the leaves are intact and grass clippings would show up rather badly.

It's still not as bad in the US as it is elsewhere. People in southeast Asia tell me they feel like they're taking a chance every time they eat anything. People in Europe have found themselves drinking cheap wine adulterated with antifreeze.

It would be like that here if we didn't have the FDA keeping things a bit more honest.

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