"sm_jamieson" wrote in message
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On 10 Feb, 14:38, (Andrew Gabriel) wrote:
Bought some extra virgin olive oil some years ago. It wasn't brilliant,
didn't get used very much, and eventually got abandoned in favour of a
better one. Still have two 1l bottles in the garage, long way past the
use-by date, and it's got even worse with age - now smells rather like
oil based gloss paint. (I'm dubious about contamination from the plastic
bottles - only by it in glass bottles now.) Can anyone think of anything
useful to do with it which doesn't involve eating it (or smelling it)?

What about hearing it ?
Does putting it in your ear count ;-?
They used to put warm oil in the ear to soften wax. In fact you had to
buy it from the chemist.

Yep

Olive Oil was available for this purpose long before the foodies discovered
that we should use it in food

tim