As an American I really miss Liberté yogurt, its been over a decade since I saw it in stores.
Yeah, that was good stuff.
Buy local and donate the difference if you really care. That way Rump doesn’t get that 25%, and it’s tax free.
Print this and post it at your local grocery store.
Probably already mentioned, but afaik Tim Hortons is American now
Last I checked, Tim Horton’s is owned by Restaurant Brands International, which came to be as a merger between Tim Horton’s and Burger King. They are headquartered in Toronto. Their majority shareholder is a Brazilian investment company though.
Fair enough, seems I was wrong.
I work at a pet food manufacturer in Wisconsin, and we sell our products in Canada. We’ve been fielding lots of questions and feedback contacts from our Canadian customers saying they won’t feed our products anymore. I get it, and I’m in full support of anyone who boycotts us. In my department, both of the people I report to are right wing, Trump-voting idiots who didn’t think about how this affects us directly.
This makes my job harder, but hit us where it hurts. I will sit back and laugh as the leopards eat their faces. I truly hope the company as a whole survives as is, but I am prepared if we don’t. Fuck around and find out.
The one product I needed tonight from this list doesn’t like it is listed correctly. PC mustard is product of USA. I passed on it and bought French’s because it at least uses Canadian mustard seed. And fuck Galen Weston anyway.
You would have a hard time finding mustard that doesn’t use Canadian mustard seed…
But a pretty easy time finding mustard that doesn’t say it uses Canadian mustard seed, so…
I’m just saying that because we produce a shit ton of seeds in Canada so unless you go out of your way to buy mustard produced in Asia, you’re getting Canadian mustard seeds in your mustard.
Bonus points if you buy any direct from Mexico foods.
Having refried bean enchiladas for dinner tonight with Costena beans and enchilada sauce actually. I usually go to the local Latino market a few times a month too.
If Coke etc are canned in Canada do they get tariffs? The Canadian people deserve better than PC cola.
They shouldn’t, one of the goals of tarrifs is to encourage production in-country
I’ve been pleasantly surprised at how Canadian my stuff already is. It makes sense, I guess - shipping costs something, and I look for deals.
The really hard thing will be fresh, perishable goods, so I’ve spent the last several years moving onto all-pantry recipes. Detergent is also weirdly American, although Tru Earth is Canadian.
Unfortunately, shipping is insanely cheap. That’s why to make a T-shirt you get cotton grown in Egypt, shipped by a huge container ship to Indonesia where it is turned into cotton yarn. That yarn is then loaded back onto a huge container ship where it goes to Bangladesh to be turned into a T-shirt. Then, it’s loaded onto a huge container ship to be sent to the US for people to buy. All that shipping only adds $2 to the total cost of $12 or so, and then it’s sold for like $20.
Depends on weight, too. Textiles are really light per value (and if it’s Egyptian cotton maybe this is a nice shirt, even). A can of potatoes is quite different in that respect.
But yeah, shipping is still reasonably cheap. Which is good - not everything can be made in Canada, or like textiles made here at reasonable cost, and it gives us the option to not use the US as long as our ports have enough capacity.
It’s good that shipping is cheap in some ways. The problem is that it’s cheap because it uses the absolute worst kinds of fuels that are incredibly polluting. The fact that shipping is incredibly cheap is a major reason why the climate is changing.
Hmm. I actually doubt that’s true at this point, except for aircraft. The thing is you can’t convert everything to EVs overnight.
You doubt what’s true? That transportation / shipping is a major contributor to climate change?
“the transportation sector contributes 20.2% of global CO2 emissions”
International cargo container shipping is only about 2% of global CO2, but that’s still 10% of all transportation-related output coming from shipping alone. Imagine if every 1 in 10 vehicles you saw on the road was a little boat, that’s how much international shipping contributes to CO2.
You shouldn’t convert everything to EVs overnight. EVs aren’t the answer, public transport and alternative transport like biking is the answer. A nasty deisel-based bus almost certainly contributes less to climate change than 30 personal EVs, especially if you consider the entire life cycle.
Transport is going to be the hardest thing to convert to not use fossil fuels, because the biggest advantage of fossil fuels is the massive energy density of the fuel. An EV has to lug massive batteries around with it everywhere it goes, but a gasoline car just needs a relatively small fuel tank. For small personal vehicles it might be possible to accept the compromise, but it’s going to be a lot harder to get rid of fossil fuels for buses, trains and especially airplanes and ships. So, the answer there is not to switch to EVs, it’s to reduce the use as much as possible. Stop flying around the world. Stop ordering things from overseas. Stop driving personal vehicles and take public transit.
Right now, the biggest sector contributing to global CO2 is electricity and heat production, but solar and wind are getting so cheap that it’s just a matter of time for those to be converted. You don’t even need to give incentives, the cheapest solution is now the cleanest. The energy density of the fuel doesn’t matter in those cases. But, transport’s going to be a harder problem, and it’s the one we should be working on now.
You doubt what’s true? That transportation / shipping is a major contributor to climate change?
No. That it can’t be done without emissions.
EVs aren’t the answer, public transport and alternative transport like biking is the answer.
Biking and public transit for cargo?
Cargo bikes exist, and trains are effectively public transit for cargo.
Just went grocery shopping. It was actually easier to figure out what was made in the US than I expected. Pretty much everything was labeled with the origin and where they were imported from (if they were imported).
The other thing I learned is that the US cornered the junk food market lmao.
Also I did buy one item from the US which was broccoli. If someone finds broccoli not from the US let me know :D
I just checked the President’s Choice broccoli in my freezer and it says “Product of Belgium”.
Oh I’m specifically looking for fresh broccoli. Not frozen.
Then I don’t know what you expect. You can’t grow broccoli in Canada in the winter and you can’t ship fresh vegetables over from halfway around the world and expect them to stay fresh.
Coca Cola is bad because… It’s owned by an American corporation, despite being bottled in Canada?
Why then are we suggested to buy Great Value? Is it because Walmart is an American corporation but it’s bottled in Canada?
I’ve seen this suggestion a few times before this post. Someone help it make sense.
And even if a company’s HQ is in America, their shareholders are probably all over. Personally I’ll only worry a bout the physical supply chain.
I can’t wait for 2028.
Don’t forget the mid-terms in 2026. The damn Democrats better wake their asses up, take back the House and Senate, and start helping the dumb bastards in the red states or this shit will continue.
I hope you can vote in 2028
as an aussie, this is all so fucked up… we have basically nothing here that’s canadian, but i’m certainly switching all my shopping and services away from US brands in solidarity (RIP vegemite :p)
global solidarity against the fucking bully
at the very least, anyone could be next… but even without that somewhat selfish take, canadians don’t deserve any of this
I wish more international trade was based on who shared our values, vs. what’s cheaper. Aussies, Canadians and Kiwis all share values far more than Canadians do with Americans, despite the close proximity and shared culture.
I think Canada imports some Aussie and Kiwi products, like some wines, some fancy honeys, etc. But, unfortunately, both Canada and Australia are mainly resource-based economies these days, and export a lot of raw resources to be processed into goods in other countries.
yeah 100% agree. most of our resources go to china to be processed into the stuff you buy
i’ll buy shit loads of maple syrup and be real happy about it - as expensive as it is here 🥺
Is Vegemite American made? Wow. My SO is Australian and his family would bring him some when they visited. We can only get Marmite here.
This isn’t going to be easy but the orange rapist doesn’t seem to comprehend that we can hit them where they live.
it’s owned by kraft yeah; i remember a big thing about it being sold in the 90s
we also have marmite, and another one that AFAIK is still aussie called promite (just skip the thermite for eating; that’s different)
Crikey that Thermite can be spicy!
well we ain’t here to fuck spiders after all ay
Dawson’s, Piri Piri by PC, No Name hot sauce
In solidarity with Mexico I might just stick with El Yucateco.
I buy el yucateco because it tastes better. If America wants me to buy hot sauce made here they need to learn how to make it taste good.
You’ve pointed out an aspect of this that has escaped too many. You don’t fight nationalism with more nationalism. This trade war can only result in stronger trade partnerships with other nations.
Canada Dry isn’t Canadian anymore. It was bought by an American company in 2008.
I hate how deceptive names can be. You just think by default “oh this must be Canadian then”. So much homework to figure out the truth with all these conglomerates
At the very least, this should provide an incentive for Canadian brands to prominently display flags on their packaging. And, the fairly dysfunctional government should at least be able to agree to pass a law forbidding non-Canadian brands from claiming to be Canadian.
With billions at stake, there are bound to be companies that bend the rules and claim to be Canadian because 10% of the product comes from Canada, or something. But, at least it would be a step in the right direction. And hey, if those flags stay on for years after this spat, that’s a good thing too. We should be buying more locally, for environmental reasons if not economic ones.
