I don’t think I’ve ever had rapeseed oil that wasn’t branded canola. But it tastes nasty to me. Fresh and unheated it has little flavor, but if you cook with it or let it sit in the cupboard it gets… maybe it just goes rancid extremely fast? But i really dislike the flavor that it often imparts. So much so that when some brand of packaged cookie switched from palm and coconut oil to canola oil, i bought some without realizing that, and spat out the first cookie in disgust. Then i looked at the package, and wrote to the manufacturer to complain. My guess is that i want alone, because they switched to less nasty tasting oils shortly after that.
I know it is supposed to be good for you. But so is olive oil, and olive oil tastes good. Anyway, my cholesterol numbers are fine, so i pick fats for their flavor, and tend to favor butter, duck/goose fat, peanut oil, and olive oil, depending on what I’m cooking.
I don’t think it matters for most people. It’s all got about the same smoke point, or at least the difference in that respect really doesn’t matter for most cooking. I also think that canola has a peculiar smell when it gets really hot, and corn oil gives a flavor that you perhaps don’t want in some dishes, but not everyone has those issues.
It can be, especially if it is old or has been heated really high. It totally ruins my mother’s vegan pie crust recipe, originally meant for Mazola corn oil. Mind you, the corn oil flavor will come out in the recipe, too. But I’ve grown used to it.
I don’t use any oil very often, so so my olive oil and vegetable oil (soybean this time) bottles live in the refrigerator. Yes, they gel, but that’s not an issue. They stay fresh tasting much longer than if they’re just kept in the cupboard.
It’s bizarre to think of now, but the makers of the diet suppressant candy Ayds was apparently very circumspect about changing the name in the wake of the AIDS crisis in the late 80s. They argued that the product already had great brand recognition and that a rebranding would be costly. One executive said “The product has been around for 50 years, let the disease change its name.” Wow. It took sales plummeting by 50% before they decided to change the name.
But I guess even at that point with thousands dying, people still didn’t fully grasp the situation because an outside brand naming company executive helpfully suggested the new name of “Skinny — From the Makers of Ayds.” Ouch.
And when they finally did change the name, it was to Diet Ayds. For fucks sake, what a big difference. In the UK they changed it to Aydslim, which is arguably worse.
It was actually taken off the market because it didn’t meet FDA standards for OTC drugs; Ayds contained benzocaine, which would temporarily blunt the taste buds, but there was little or no evidence, besides the testimonials in “Workbasket” magazine, that it actually worked for weight loss.
The late-model Ayds had phenylpropanolamine in them. It’s a sympathomimetic so it is a mid stimulant and appetite reducer. It’s banned for OTC drugs in the U.S. now. The stuff just made my scalp crawl and kept me awake like pseudoephedrine does.
In the meantime, a FORMER lunch lady from Illinois has been arrested for fraudulently order $1.5 MILLION in chicken wings, which the school district didn’t serve because they had bones, through the school account. I’m guessing that she was supplying a restaurant.
