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[Charles]

Originally Posted by finnbow

I take it you know that Canola oil comes from the seed of the rape plant. There were concerns about marketing it in English speaking countries under the name rapeseed oil, however. There was a fear that housewives would shy away from such a name.

It's actually a very pretty plant with bright yellow flowers. There were acres and acres of it in Germany where it is a significant cash crop for food oils and oils for industrial uses.

I didn't know that, along with most everything else in the universe.

Buddy plants it in his food plots.

Chas

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by finnbow

I take it you know that Canola oil comes from the seed of the rape plant. There were concerns about marketing it in English speaking countries under the name rapeseed oil, however. There was a fear that housewives would shy away from such a name.

It's actually a very pretty plant with bright yellow flowers. There were acres and acres of it in Germany where it is a significant cash crop for food oils and oils for industrial uses.

Florence and I took a bus trip when in London, out to Shakespeare's stomping grounds. While driving through the countryside there were fields after fields of bright yellow. Lady in the seat in front said "How pretty, what is it?" I said "Rape", boy what a reaction.

[mossbacked]

Stick with olive oil . . .

World War II saw high demand for the rapeseed oil (Canola) as a lubricant for the rapidly increasing number of steam engines in naval and merchant ships as machinists found rapeseed oil clung to water or steam-washed metal surfaces better than other lubricants.

When the war blocked European and Asian sources of rapeseed oil, a critical shortage developed and Canada began to expand its limited rapeseed production.

After the war, demand declined sharply and farmers began to look for other uses for the plant and its products. Edible rapeseed oil extracts were first put on the market in 1956–1957, but these suffered from several unacceptable characteristics. Rapeseed oil had a distinctive taste and a disagreeable greenish colour due to the presence of chlorophyll.

It also contained a high concentration of erucic acid. Experiments on animals have pointed to the possibility that erucic acid, consumed in large quantities, may cause heart damage.

[piece-itpete]

The National Organisation of Women have banned any mention of Rapeseed.

They have also added 'shebang' as in 'the whole shebang' to their questionable list.

Seriously, wonder where the name came from.

Pete