Don't know if it matters to you or not, Old Bay, but virtually 100% of the rape crop is genetically modified.

I won't use canola oil at all for that reason. I will not knowingly use frankenfoods.

In both these recipes, olive oil substitutes quite well. And for a slightly different flavor, try some of the nut oils.

I prefer olive oil personally. My SO doesn't. So canola has no flavor added, where some olive oils add a lot of flavor.

So, now, I'm dumb, is canola the fancy name for 'rape seed oil'? I took a nutrition class in college and canola was the thing then. Of course, that was before gene splicing, etc.

Olive oil and veggie oil - sometimes coconut oil - that's it for me. Canola is scag oil to me. I also prefer butter to margarine and I stll use lard - oh well - it's hard to change OLD habits.

Old Bay, canola is a constructed word standing for Canada+Oil+Acid.

It is, indeed, oil from the seeds of the rape plant; a name with bad connotations in North America. So the name canola was dreamed up for marketing reasons.

Re lard: You and me, Mamma. And maybe three other people. There is nothing that lends quite that level of flavor.