Yes, while excellent olive oil is available from many countries--it's not reliable. California olive oil is consistent.
Honey is also a problem. It's the most counterfeited food in the world, and most of the commercial honey is mostly sugar or corn syrup, with a tiny amount of honey in it. Honey is poorly regulated. Best to buy from local farmers when you can.
Other food to be cautious about: maple syrup, vanilla extract, wasabi, fish (poor quality fish mislabeled as expensive types)
WRONG.
You only think that because you've never actually tasted wasabi, just green-colored horseradish.
Get this stuff, it's the real deal, you can taste the difference.
https://www.amazon.com/Pacific-Farms-Extra-Hot-Wasabi/dp/B07JNSXNP6
If you know the right places to go in Japan, there are restaurants and sushi bars where they'll haul out an actual wasabi root and grind some right there for you, mmm.
@mcfate @tyghebright @kbsez
Easy up. That was my point, and the point of the linked video.
Also: I have. In Japan.
There's an outfit up in Oregon that'll sell you live wasabi rhizomes if you want to have a go at growing your own.
It's finicky, and plants hate me, I had no real luck with this, but I'm a bad data point.
/nosanitize
https://www.thewasabistore.com/shop?category=Starts
Mmmmmm. Pedantic wasabi.
@tyghebright @kbsez
Completely agree but I'm gonna be pedantic: all wasabi is green-ified horse radish.
https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/585172/wasabi-fake/