I dunno. If you taste olive oil from a trusted source (like at the grove where the olives are grown and perhaps pressed), and compare it with $random_storebought_brand, there's a major difference in taste.

The difference doesn't make it objectively better for you, or even better tasting.

But in a world where the phenomenon of olive oil adulterated with other oils is well documented[1], it's a legitimate question to ask why the small batch oil tastes different from the big box version.

1- https://www.epicurious.com/ingredients/seven-ways-to-tell-th...

> Starbucks sucks

It’s not virtue signaling. It really sucks. Next time you are in SF, or somewhere where Ritual coffee has shops try an espresso from them(the Sweet Tooth preferably).

You will be blown by the difference in taste. I get that some people don’t care for it, but I don’t it’s virtue signaling to do.

true words, but mentioning the move from a tropical island to SV is its own kind of virtue signaling