Top Olive Oil Producing Countries

very interesting! God knows where Syria (or Libya) is now ...

edgy

And wrong. The 9-11 attacks came from Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Egypt and the UAE, and the number of terror attacks by Syrians on US soil has been... zero. (But internal terror is another thing - President Assad will hopefully be tried one day for war crimes because of his killing of tens of thousands of his own countrymen. Now THAT is terror.)

The problem with being wrong is it screws up jokes

Drawbacks for Syria: terrorism is not an economically profitable, and is an even less sustainable export because of the suicidal tendencies of the present model. Bad economical forecast, don't buy stocks.

Egypt is about the only Mediterranean country not on the list.

What about Malta, Cyprus, France, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro and Albania?

Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Malta, France, Monaco, Albania, Cyprus, Montenegro and Slovenia are all Mediterranean countries not on this list.

Egypt is 18th on the list of Olive Producing Countries, so only 3 away from the list.

Egypt may have other agricultural priorities to feed its massive +90,000,000 people solely with the banks of the Nile and its delta. Plus, the Nile is not as fertile as before due to the loss of sediments caused by the Aswan Dam preventing floods. So fertile lands are kinda scarce despite their big size compared to neighbours.

Italian and Greek olive oil are rather famous but Spanish olive oil? They produce more metric tons than both Italy and Greece combined yet I can't recall that I ever purchased Spanish olive oil. They probably sell it where I shop since they have tons of different types of cooking oil there but it never stood out to me.

I've seen a lot of Spanish olive oil where I live. I guess they export it to some places and not to others.

I've had Spanish olive oil, as well.

If by chance you ever go around Jaén in Andalusia, you could see the scale of the Spanish production. I think it's by far the biggest olive field in the world, it's really mind blowing. If you want quality, buy French of Greek oil, Spain is more about mass production, even if you can also find some totally respectable oils right there. Drawbacks, French and quality Greek olive oils are expensive as hell.

Goya is one brand of Spanish olive oil that is common in my area.

My mother bought her olive oil by the gallon and it was always Spanish. Huge metal tins of the stuff.

Italy buys a lot of olive oil from Spain and labels it as it was produced there. Also I'm surprised you havent heard about Spanish oil, as it is usually said as one of the best.

I started filling blanks with countries such as Iran, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Venezuela... it's only after too much time that I realized the quizz was about OLIVE oil... facepalm...

The hint gave it away

Very surprised just based off geography that Chile, Mexico and Australia aren't on the list. Not that they are known producers but because of size, climate and propensity to grow a lot of high dollar crops.

I live in Jaen (Andalusia, Spain), the main place in the world in production of olive oil. In most villages and towns from this province olive oil is almost the only economic base and way of life. But much of this oil is sold to Italy where they label and commercialise it, although the raw material is spanish.

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