Sunday, November 04, 2007

Gary learns about CANOLA OIL

This is the perfect example of how bloody across-the-board curious I am. So Shop-Rite has a 4 day sale on Crisco gallon jugs...only $3.99!!! Now I don't use vegetable oil much, but the holiday season's coming and I'm yearning to bake and be overall more experimental with food, blah, blah, blah...and the PRICE...so I bought it. I mean, it's regularly $8.49 for that size. But i'm digressing. So while i'm staring at a mountain of Crisco, I see there's THREE kinds...the standard vegetable oil, but also CORN and CANOLA oils. And I'm instantly like "well, what the fuck's the difference?" And I proceed to spend a good half hour analyzing the labels of each...and not finding much info at all, besides the fact that canola had the least amount of saturated fat. So I wander from the sale endcap to the oil aisle, determined to find SOMEthing relevant about what distinguishes the three. I was mainly thinking about COOKING...does each TASTE different? Or are certain foods better with a certain oil? WHAT, DAMMIT, WHAT?!?! All I REALLY learned was that canola seemed to be the HEALTHIEST and corn gave certain foods like french fries a good base or something...though i'm sure canola does the same damn thing. So it came down to HEALTH...and Gary thus picked up the canola. Does it annoy you when I use the third person? But I still yearned for more info, so I just finally googled canola and learned ALL about its origins! YAY! Can YOU guess where the name CANOLA comes from?! I had NO idea, even though in retrospect it's kinda obvious. And now I have yet another odd bit of trivia to drop at my next cocktail party. "I've been doing some fascinating reading on the origins of canola oil..."

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