2007 02 23

Sometimes terminology blows my poor noodle just a wee bit. Take, for example, the word "virgin". Now, far as I've always been aware, when you engage in sexual intercourse for the first time, one thing you no longer are, is a virgin. Let us ignore the fact that the word used to mean a woman who was unmarried, not one who hadn't done the deed.

Anyhow.

Given the human context of the term virgin, please explain to me how it applies to "extra virgin olive oil". Is it made with extra virgins, ones left over from last weekend's frat party, or the human sacrifice that just didn't go off? Or is it like that myth we girls tell ourselves, where after two years of celibacy we're born again virgins? I never did figure out how that one applied to the boys. It's entirely possible that "extra virgin olive oil" refers to something I don't need to contemplate; something you'd pay money to experience in the part of town where they hide the skin bars, peep shows, the sort of girls you don't take home to mother, and tattooists who learned their trade in the exercise yard at the local pokey.