most of the fraud in olive oil is just smuggling barrels of it from Tunisia to Italy & labeling it "product of Italy" so it gets a better price

and to be perfectly honest I just don't care where oil comes from as long as it can pass basic import QA & isn't. you know. rancid https://twitter.com/thegabrielest/status/1278898923000655872

fun fact: repeated childhood ear infections can low-key shut down the nerves that carry taste signals from the front half of your tongue

so the back half gets super sensitive to compensate & everything's weird

my tongue is a mullet

clean-cut in the front, party in the back

does this Explain Why I Just Don't Care That Much About Food? no but it's an amazing excuse

Linda Bartoshuk at UFlorida does a lot of this work. Found out my tongue doesn't work bc I volunteered for some tests in her lab I just thought that stuff was normal https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5033705/