>> > It may be hard to find proper olive oil outside of Italy I'm told.
> High quality dop/docg olive oil is readily available all over the world, and there are plenty of places all around the mediterranean that have olive oil as good as Italian oil.
There's a whole rabbit hole you can go down here. It's not clear cut AFAICT.[0]
Nowhere in that link does it say that it only happens on exports. It's also true of pretty much any product, e.g. wine [0], parmesan [1], champagne [2]
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I'm not saying it only happens on exports, nor am I arguing it happens with only olive oil. I'm responding directly to your claim that "high quality dop/docg olive oil is readily available all over the world."
It may be available, but readily available seems like a bit of a stretch to me. It can be deceptively difficult to obtain.
> It's reliably reported that 80% of the Italian olive oil on the market is fraudulent.[0]
> High quality dop/docg olive oil is readily available all over the world, and there are plenty of places all around the mediterranean that have olive oil as good as Italian oil.
There's a whole rabbit hole you can go down here. It's not clear cut AFAICT.[0]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_oil_regulation_and_adult...