Rapeseed oil, €2.29 a litre. On the shelf directly below, Vegetable Oil, €1.55 a litre. Both list “rapeseed oil 100%” as the only ingredient, and have precisely the same nutritional information. The exact same bottle, the exact same contents. You’re literally paying 74 cent for green packaging details instead of blue.

35 comments

  1. YES.

    This is absolutely fine to do for vegetable oil but obviously plays on assumptions and is a bit of a con.

    I’ve had fun telling people this and their disbelief just forcing them to call me a liar. It makes it all the funnier.

  3. It could be a quality thing. As in the one advertised as rapeseed might be a better crop than what’s used in the one advertised as vegetable oil.

    Possibly also region of source crop?

  7. At 1.55 a Litre.

    You could run your diesel yoke on that.

    Fry your dinner. Filter the bits. In the tank. Away you go.

  8. You need to drink a few shots of each to appreciate the subtle hints of rape and seed. Swish it around and gargle it for best results.

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

  10. We get big buckets of vegetable oil in work which is rapeseed and is for frying and such. And then get nicer rapeseed. Big price difference and quality

  13. I’d guess they just use whatever crop is cheapest at the time for the vegetable oil.

    Sunflower oil costs have been high as a lot of it comes from Ukraine

  14. Quick Google search for my own curiosity

    rapeseed oil is a vegetable oil but vegetable oil is not necessarily rapeseed oil. Not all vegetable oils are edible cooking oils, but the term vegetable oil is commonly accepted as an all purpose edible cooking oil.

  18. I’ll stick with my extra virgin olive oil which is €5/litre, tastes and smells great, especially the week after being pressed

  19. Typical, leaving out the fact that there’s an extra month of shelf life on the green bottle. Someone clearly has an agenda!

    Great catch though. I nominate you to be the price czar of this sub.

    > Someone posts a picture of their chicken roll/chocolate bar/whatever else

    > jaundiceChuck replies with either ‘swindled’ or ‘not swindled’

    > thread closed

  22. During lockdown and up until this year tesco would’ve had the bottle of sunflower oil but it would’ve had rapeseed oil as content instead but nothing was advertised as it being different

  23. Not as bad as the packet of 60 click and seal sandwich bags in assorted colours, now a packet of 40 for the same price. And yet, Dunnes have managed to make themselves cheaper than Tesco, Aldi and Lidl just by not putting their prices up quite as much and having the best voucher system. My wife is even in a FB group where people share vouchers they won’t use. Nobody seems to abuse it by not giving back but a few scabby bitches will demand that you return a voucher of equal value after your shop.

  26. They also do this with multiples. I’ve seen it on a few items, say €1 each, pack of 6, €6.49. I know it’s technically up to the buyer to work it out but not everyone is good at maths, it’s disgusting to rip people off.

  27. Bigger issue is the belief by many that Rapeseed oil is somehow better or healthier, its essentially the same as Canola oil, and is a bad oil in general to eat, like many seed oils, unless its cold mechanically pressed to reduce the oxidation breakdown, its awful stuff.

    Regardless, the rouse is pretty terrible, however perhaps, the Veg Oil, is all sorts of different veg oils from time to time, depending on prices and availability, much like the 17 varieties of apples in Bulmers… maybe Sunflower happens be more costly for the time being, and instead of changing price they changed ingredient… anyway good spot

  30. The Rapeseed one actually is a better quality oil, due to some factor like better processing. Im an oil painter and various linseed oils which would all say 100% linseed oil have different prices based on if they are refined, cold pressed etc.

    I forget which is better for food as regards cold pressing etc but there is a difference and just viewing the two pics the rapeseed one looks more like a high quality oil as it’s a rich honey color and the other one is a weak piss color. That could just be the lighting but if not, it looks a lot like the difference I’ve noticed in cheapo brand linseed oils and good brands (the lighter ones actually darken more severely with age when mixed with paint then the honey colored ones which still darken but not as much, and thus the colors don’t change as much)

  31. Ah yes, well because it’s green packaging, that means the plastic will disintegrate in only 1 million years, instead of 1 million and 1 years

  32. I’m just shocked that you’re only finding this out now. This isn’t a Dunnes thing, it’s been like this with every brand of oil for as long as I can remember

  34. Its called tiering. A value offering, a standard offering and a fancier offering.

    Not a swindle per say as it can involve different techniques in product.

    To be honest this is just a case that the standard quality has dropped to the value quality or vice versa. Happens on occasion. Probably an area theyll look at in their next range change to either improve the quality of their standard or reduce the value one. Oil is hard to differenatiate at times because its really just oil. Look at areas like James, Beans, processed foods and look at the tierying there. your more likely to find differences in quality.

    The double savers lines are ussually lines you use to price match against Aldi or Tesco.

    Edit:

    More obvious one is Milk. Never understood why people buy Avonmore or any other branded milk for that matter when the OL label milk is litrally the same thing. The only think I could think of it the vitamine added versions.

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