[cassepipe]

I am only speaking about taste but various italian olive oils I have tested are too... acrid in my opinion. In comparison, all greek olive oils I have had access to ranged from good to amazingly good. Speaking from the pov of someone whose main fodder is bread, olive oil and lettuce.

[optymizer]

I am a big fan of the Spanish virgin olive oil at Costco (the one in the tall green bottle), so I got excited when I saw their olive oil from Italy. I thought it would also be great, but it tasted very very strange. I don't know what 'acrid' is, but the word sounds like what that oil tasted like.

[Stratoscope]

Costco sells a few different Italian olive oils. The best flavor is the Toscano or Val di Mazara. (Which one they have varies from year to year.) They only have these for a while from late spring until they runs out, and it is the most recent October/November harvest. They are in tall square green bottles, perhaps similar to the Spanish you mention.

[optymizer]

Yes, I should have been more specific. Out of the two italian olive oils in tall bottles, the one with the purple colors tasted bad to me. I think it says Italy on it in big letters. The green label bottle, also from Italy but which says Toscano, tasted just fine (though I still prefer the Spanish bottle).

[spookybones]

Do you make sandwiches with olive oil and lettuce? Genuinely curious.

[mathieuh]

I'm not that commenter, but dipping toasted bread in olive oil is delicious. And with the lettuce, you can mix olive oil and balsamic with a bit of seasoning to make a simple vinaigrette for a dressing.

[cassepipe]

I am that commenter and exactly this (lemon is great too) The best there's some kind of cheese or fish around