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@infobeautiful I assume the light green areas should be much larger nowadays. Quite a lot of yellow people use a lot of olive oil.
@infobeautiful A map of the US might look similar due to the popularity of deep fried foods in the south. However, they do not use olive oil since it would burn at deep frying temperatures.
@infobeautiful I’m assuming this has something to do with temperature and practicality of long-term storage of butter vs. olive oil
@Riedler @infobeautiful - also the historical costs of shipping olive oil from the places where olives grow versus the costs of making local butter. Regional cuisines are a bit like the amber in which ancient insects are trapped. The conditions that gave rise to those cuisines become encoded in the recipes and flavor profiles that make up the cuisine and those recipes persist long after those conditions have changed.
@infobeautiful Sunflower and Rapeseed oil should be also presenred in this map and thus butter+oil zone will be much larger, even dominant portion :)
@infobeautiful now do the heart disease line
@infobeautiful well that explains why I’m so chonky then lol 
@infobeautiful try getting hold of some cheap olive oil now though....
En Occitanie : "Oh, les bonnes chocolatines à l'huile d'olive !"
@infobeautiful I think the light green areas have it figured out
@infobeautiful What's the story behind Luxembourg?
@infobeautiful - the northernmost olive grove in the world is in Köln - latitude 51 degrees north. This is, not coincidentally, around the northern edge of the yellow-green area.
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They missed adding a small speck of green in Rotterdam. I definitely use way more olive oil than butter! 
Cool map though, never would have thought such a clear line existed.
@bmacDonald94
@infobeautiful Sunflower oil is also a staple in many parts of Europe.
@infobeautiful but is it salty or not salty butter?
@infobeautiful because olives are gross
@infobeautiful it's uncanny, we really could get #butter trending
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That is quite beautiful.
But still, I think it's nice for @TerribleMaps.
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Now looking for maple syrop line.
@infobeautiful I'm not sure if that yellow dot is Andorra or my house...
@infobeautiful must be fake or something. I live near Paris and just with my own olive oil consumption, the whole France should be ultra dark green.
@infobeautiful Homer would say:
"Hmhm....butter!" 
@infobeautiful it's also a growing zone, no? Not so much olives growing in Sweden.
@infobeautiful Well, there are not so many olive trees around here.
