Prices for basics really getting out of hand in London

by wall—a

25 comments
  1. Well, yeah. I mean, it’s first pressing. Or do you want to wait til everyone else has had their fun with the olives? Fourth pressing. Yeah, like that’s gonna be a party in your mouth, I don’t think!

  2. It’s mad expensive, no doubt. But me and my wife take about 6 months to get through 1L so we can just about afford it.

  3. Great pun.

    Though, crap oil. More than a tenner for anything decent now. 🙁

  4. That’s surprisingly cheap compared to the name brands 🤣

  5. Part of that is the climate disaster. Lots of fires around the Mediterranean have absolutely decimated olive trees.

  6. Get the sainsburys greek kalamata olive oil.

    It’s the same price but you get 500ml. It’s quality stuff, doesn’t burn as quick and tastes great. A little will go a long way is what i’m saying. 

    It’s gotten so bad recently that I find no difference in the big 3 supermarkets anymore.

  7. Nothing to do with London, it wil be expensive anywhere you go because of bad harvests due to extreme weather.

  8. Crazy isn’t it… I have to buy it as not buying that seed oil crap

  9. I wonder how much of the oil we are now getting is ‘fake’ and blended but just not labelled that way.

    It’s a [big](https://www.forbes.com/sites/ceciliarodriguez/2016/02/10/the-olive-oil-scam-if-80-is-fake-why-do-you-keep-buying-it) problem in the USA where the food standards are lower than the EU, and now the UK (with us not being in the EU anymore).

    But then, it’s also an issue in Spain and Italy (probably with mafia connections), and is happening recently – [here](https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2023/12/spanish-and-italian-investigators-uncover-olive-oil-fraud/).

  10. Yea there’s been a lot more frying in sunflower oil these days in my yard

  11. You should see prices here in North America. You’re getting a bargain

  12. Any olive oil sold in a transparent container is going to be shit as sunlight greatly deteriorates the quality of it.

  13. Banging.

    Shame about the olive oil price though. Here in Berlin it’s become popular for junkies to steal because it’s so easy to sell, and for an ok price.

  14. Expensive??? If high quality Italian oil it would be half the correct price

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