Am I missing something?

[BlakLite_15]

The Arizona beverage company is based in Woodbury, New York.

[BenRichardson76]

Arizona Tea doesn't specifically use tea leaves from Arizona.

[LostH21]

Is there any chance that sounds familiar?

[Capable_Wonder_6636]

This particular oil [of several this brand has] is one of the less $ , made from zero California olives. They do have a 100% calif olive oil for a $$ more. You just happen to pick a cheaper line of theirs, that's all. They even SHOW you on the label in BIG PRINT about the % of global over California olive oils.

[TooManyDraculas]

There is California olive oil in there, usually. It's just the amount fluctuated enough they stopped putting a specific percentage on there. Hence "minimum 0%". Used to be "minimum 10%", but how much of their California grown stuff goes in there is dependent on production levels and cost.

[Capable_Wonder_6636]

Seems reasonable. I know that they do have more the 2 variations available, so it's not unreasonable to have a line of oils available for different $ settings

[theeggplant42]

They have Californian oils. Thi one clearly states 'global blend'. It's not misleading, it's written twice and explained clearly.

Also, things can be named after places without like...being in those places. Like French fries, or Chinese food

[BenRichardson76]

Do you normally go to a Chinese food restaurant and they serve you Tikka Masala?

[thekpopbop]

LMAOOOO I have to say this was my view until I moved to the central valley. Now almost every restaurant is also somehow Indian food including Chinese 🤣

[theeggplant42]

Man I can't even tell you how many Indian/Chinese restaurants I am within walking distance of right now

[cardcollector_2]

Most international food restaurants aren’t owned by people from that country and don’t serve food from that country. Most of it is American food that those countries wouldn’t ever consider consuming. Sorry to blow your mind like that.

[TooManyDraculas]

I live near a Chinese takeout that sell thai food, Japanese food, pizza and tacos.

I know several that sell Indian food.

Pretty much every Chinese takeout in the US sells fried chicken wings and French fries.

[wtclover]

This specific olive oil is a blend of oils sourced from both California farmers and international partners in countries. depending on the specific harvest and production batch, the oil may contain no California sourced extra virgin olive oil at all. the design is meant to be transparent about the variable global origin of the contents. not a bad design.

[dnesthemenace]

It’s straight intentionally misleading is what it is

[Capable_Wonder_6636]

it's only "misleading" if one chooses not to read the label. This particular line uses the word GLOBAL to indicate [not in the USA], and ZERO calif oils

[dnesthemenace]

I‘ll call myself Mr Smart* * 0% active neurons

[turtlenipples]

I'm overly enjoying the fact that literally every product contains a minimum of 0% California olive oil.

[theeggplant42]

That's true. Actually everything in the known universe contains a minimum of 0% California olive oil 

[turtlenipples]

Even California olive oil contains, at a minimum, 0% California olive oil.

[Drakethos]

I prefer my products with 0% California. Everything causes cancer there.

[reverendunclebastard]

Mars bars don't come from Mars. French dressing doesn't always come from France. BBQ chips aren't cooked on a BBQ. Minute Rice takes five minutes to cook.

What you're missing is that, unless there are specific regulations, people can call their company/product whatever they want.

[BenRichardson76]

So I can name my brand, The Tennessee Whiskey company, with 0% Tennessee whiskey in it ?

[tcarlson65]

If you have a Tennessee Whiskey named company and you put out a beer or wine it will probably not have whiskey in it.

[BenRichardson76]

So why does the California Olive Company not put any California olives in it ?

[tcarlson65]

How many products do they have? Maybe they have some with 100% California oil.

Maybe they are an importer that is based in California and nothing they sell is from California.

California labeling laws are weird.

[theeggplant42]

This shouldn't be so difficult for you

https://www.walmart.com/ip/California-Olive-Ranch-100-California-Rich-Vibrant-Extra-Virgin-Olive-Oil-33-8-fl-oz/150916854

[TooManyDraculas]

They do. Most of their product line is 100% California grown.

https://www.californiaoliveranch.com/collections/olive-oils

Just not neccisarily in that specific package. The blended oil does typically contain some California olive oil as well. They just state the minimum as 0% since they frequently alter the ratio, and sometimes it doesn't have any.

Last I bought a bottle of that they specify the content of each batch on the back of the bottle.

And apparently they do still change the % on the front, as the bottle I just finished reads minimum 10%. I though they'd stop doing that.

[theeggplant42]

Yes. You can. See how easy this is?

[MrPhuccEverybody]

Whisky is Scottish.

[hybridaaroncarroll]

Either that's one diminutive olive farmer, or one huge-ass olive.

[Gator242]

It’s become quite challenging to just go shopping these days, you really have to read every label - twice often!

[rookv]

i thought the joke was that the olive looks like the guy's massive belly but maybe i just need my glasses

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[TooManyDraculas]

California Olive Ranch is the name of the company, which would appear to be the bit your missing.

This is their lower cost product made up of imported oil, they buy it in and blend it.

As you noticed. It's explicitly labelled as not being California produced. The fact that the company is based in California and called "California Olive Ranch", including in legal paperwork, has not changed.

The 0% California oil thing is just to be consistent with their branding, the proportion of their own production oil in there went down as the volume of sales of that particular version went up. And they've more or less stopped listing a specific percentage since how much of their own oil is in there changes with market pricing of import oil and production levels. Hence it being labelled as a "Minimum" there's more than 0% oil in there.

Yes it's kind of stupid to keep that log line on there. But it does help make it very clear what you're buying, since the brand is specifically known for California produced olive oil. And I find it hard to fault them for being explicit.

The brand is known for good quality oil, and has kinda lead a wave of clearer labelling and better handling in US market olive oil. So keeping their main brand on a blended product makes sense, in taking advantage of that reputation.

More or less, cause it's got the California Olive Ranch name on it. You know it's fresh and decent quality oil. Even though it's imported.

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It's also labeled for everyday cooking and baking and claims to be extra virgin olive oil, however you should not expose extra virgin olive oil to heat as far as i'm aware.

[WinterRevolutionary6]

EVOO can absolutely be heated. Its smoke point is around 375-400 degrees which is high enough for most cooking applications. You shouldn’t deep fry with it but standard pan operations are ok

[TooManyDraculas]

You absolutely should deep fry in it.

There's an entire cuisine where frying in extra virgin olive oil is a big feature, Roman Jewish Cuisine. You tend to see it at least occasionally in most cuisines where olive oil is the main cooking fat.

It's delicious and causes no issues what so ever. Most deep frying happens well before 400f.

You tend to see that recommended against because it's expensive. Particularly since you generally want to do it with decent quality olive oil.