# Mayonnaise made with canola oil: simply awful **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 2, 2011, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayonnaise-made-with-canola-oil-simply-awful/594945 "2011-09-02T13:41:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MarcusF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/67e7ee/32.png) [@MarcusF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MarcusF)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2012, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayonnaise-made-with-canola-oil-simply-awful/594945/21 "2012-11-22T14:03:27Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > It’s not often we get an agri-business shill signing up to defend rape. Presumably this is aimed at \*\*quality \*\*but why do you assume he/she is “an agri-business shill”? Maybe different in the the States/Canada but cold pressed virgin rapeseed oil is a high end specialist product around here, produced by single, [family owned farms](http://chilterncoldpressedrapeseedoil.co.uk/)and advocated by [celebrity chefs](http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/features/your-new-secret-ingredient-rapeseed-oil-is-set-to-overtake-olive-oil-as-the-chefs-favourite-6292148.html). ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2012, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayonnaise-made-with-canola-oil-simply-awful/594945/22 "2012-11-22T14:10:54Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Legitimate rapeseed oil, if you will. Mixed with some Date oil and its great. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2012, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayonnaise-made-with-canola-oil-simply-awful/594945/23 "2012-11-22T14:11:56Z")
I agree with the OP. That stuff is nasty. ---
**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2012, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayonnaise-made-with-canola-oil-simply-awful/594945/24 "2012-11-22T14:38:50Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > That’s like saying there’s no such thing as Royal Galas. Royal Gala is just a marketing term. They’re apples. Royal Gala is a specific cultivar of apples among [many, many others](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_apple_cultivars). “Canola” is not a kind of oil but a branding of rapeseed oil. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2012, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayonnaise-made-with-canola-oil-simply-awful/594945/25 "2012-11-22T14:46:16Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > Mixed with some Date oil and its great. - smack **billfish** with…\* Never mind, that was a good one. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2012, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayonnaise-made-with-canola-oil-simply-awful/594945/26 "2012-11-22T14:47:31Z")
> [@Panurge](#): > > “Canola” is not a kind of oil but a branding of rapeseed oil. In related news, baby oil isn’t made from babies and Mars Bars are made right here on Earth. ---
**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2012, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayonnaise-made-with-canola-oil-simply-awful/594945/27 "2012-11-22T14:52:37Z")
> [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](#): > > In related news, baby oil isn’t made from babies and Mars Bars are made right here on Earth. Way to miss my point which was that the situation regarding Canola is not equivalent to considering Royal Gala a branding of Apples (which it isn’t, since apples aren’t just apples). ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2012, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayonnaise-made-with-canola-oil-simply-awful/594945/28 "2012-11-22T14:56:27Z")
> [@Panurge](#): > > Royal Gala is a specific cultivar of apples among [many, many others](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_apple_cultivars). “Canola” is not a kind of oil but a branding of rapeseed oil. Bzzt, see my previous post. It comes from a cultivar. By your logic, all apples are one kind and naming different varieties is wrong. If you were to eat original rapeseed oil, you would get very, very sick. ---
**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2012, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayonnaise-made-with-canola-oil-simply-awful/594945/29 "2012-11-22T20:01:04Z")
Ok. Ignorance fought. I must have missed your post about the canola cultivar. What about the rapeseed oil we get in Europe? No Canola here, just (what I thought was) plain ol rapeseed oil. Other, local cultivars, perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2012, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayonnaise-made-with-canola-oil-simply-awful/594945/30 "2012-11-22T21:29:18Z")
> [@Panurge](#): > > Ok. Ignorance fought. I must have missed your post about the canola cultivar. What about the rapeseed oil we get in Europe? No Canola here, just (what I thought was) plain ol rapeseed oil. Other, local cultivars, perhaps? Like I said, the brand name Canola Oil appears to have no generic equivalent for low erucic acid rapeseed oil. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayonnaise-made-with-canola-oil-simply-awful/594945.md?page=1)