Got a question...a few. Please someone help me.

Throughout my entire "eating healthy food" lifestyle I was also taught to not touch canola oil. Why? Well, I usually do my research on just abput everything that touches my tongue and the info I found on canola oil was either really bad or inconclusive. So, I thought to myself why go for inconclusive when I know cocunut is the best (for cooking foods at high temperatures <325) and olive oil is not that bad. Well, recently, ok today, right now, I am at a friends house who wanted me to cook and so I said sure. They wanted me to fry and all that was here was Canola Oil. Instinctively I wanted to reject the offer but I convinced myself to remain "open minded" despite my knowledge of Canola Oil. While cooking in this oil I immediately noticed the harsh smell. Ok really it smells like a$$! Really bad...just not like food but I did not spazz. Then when it started to foam I got concerned. There was little popping ad tons of foam and so I was confused. "Why is this oil foaming like a cleanser would", I asked myself but I did not have the answers and nor did my friend or the roommate. OMG! I was beginning to spazz out of control! So, I asked the roommate if it were supposed to smell "like this" (like a$$) and he said yes. Ok. So I let them try the chicken. Apparently, their parents deep fried with Canola Oil (stemming from Canada Oil in which it is said that Canada paid the US millions of dollars to put on the market as safe food"...but ok) and so they...well only one tried it...liked the chicken. When I tasted it omg I freaked.

Just recently I had KFC and know for a fact they were not using Canola oil. This chicken was awful. It had a strong manufactured taste to it; nothing like veggie oil. if you were to fry in both oils and rate on a scale from 1 to 10 I guarantee real foodies would go for veggie oil. Now I am not saying anything bad about Canola oil (even though i researched several sites including wiki which kept it extremely general but more negative than positive) but i am saying YUCK!!

Honestly, I just got real concerned for all the people who use canola oil cause man this is just disgusting. I tried it....won't ever again. I wonder what McDonald's uses for deep frying or even most restaurants...

Please, someone help!!

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