Elbows up, Smithers!
(You can read that in the voice of Mr. Burns if you like.)
Meanwhile in Europe: “Honey: contains honey from EU and non-EU countries.”
Actually kinda makes sense for honey given its near infinite shelf life making it easy to ship. Companies that are just doing generic honey instead of some kind of artisanal stuff will just get it from wherever it’s cheapest at the time
It’s also easily counterfeit, with the right ratio of glucose/fructose mixed with a bit of pollen and you have “honey” that never been close to a bee.
Don’t get me started on counterfeit honey. I feel like counterfeit honey is the poster child for how obviously all food agencies are failing their public. If “honey” corn syrup (or whatever the hell they’re using to adulterate the product) is able to flood our shelves in every country without wide scale inspection or punishment—I have to ask: What else is slipping through the cracks?
Cracker jacks are made from neither crackers nor jacks.
THE CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS
C*acker jacks
A lot of slipping through the cracks.
An amazing book about this subject is “Vous êtres fous d’avaler ça” (not translated in English unfortunately)
It’s a former food industry engineer talking about everything he saw or did.
After reading the book I’m now extremely cautious about buying stuff at the supermarket, I’m trying to buy the less transformed stuff as much as possible.
Basically every transformation step is an opportunity for the industrials to hide stuff. Rodent feces mixed in the spices ? No problem, just heat it up to sterilize it, grind it finely so now one can see it and mix it with fresh spices until the proportion of “foreign material” in the mix it under the limit.
I am now only buying the spices whole.
Amazing thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge. And for the book! I’ll check it out. I’m an ex chef and you know what…I’ll start buying spices whole again 😅
That’s a funny example to give because I’ve never seen more locally produced honey than in Germany. Feels like there’s a local beekeeper on every block like twice a quarter.
I was a little baffled when Safeway had Oreos with the maple leaf
Huh, they actually do have a plant making them in Ontario
There almost needs to be another item in that list that is “Made in Canada by Canadians, with Canadian ingredients, but the company is not Canadian-owned” - i.e. Canadian Lay’s chips are 100% made in Canada, so they get to put that label on their products, but the money still goes to PepsiCo.
It’s still great that the supply chain is in Canada, though. Of course, there could still be better options.
I agree with you, though - the Buy Beaver app actually breaks it down by manufacturing location, materials/ingredients and ownership, which is great. Although, I do question some of the user-provided ratings in the app, it’s a good start.
I’m gonna need this printed on a little business card for reference cause I’m gonna forget the details every time.
They should just put like 65% made in Canada = two thirds of ingredients and labor was canadian
I want that in the EU
Safeway? The American supermarket chain? Or does Canada coincidentally have a supermarket with the same name?
The Canadian Safeway brand was sold to Sobeys, a Canadian company, back in 2013
This isn’t directed at you, but I fucking despise the quiet ownership of companies. Names offer so little information, nowadays.
Thankfully the internet offers the ability to drill down and find out who owns what.
Similar to A&W, the Canadian version is separate from the US version
Thank you!
In Australia they have a percentage meter on the packaging with made in or made from local & imported etc. Nice and clear.
At least in ON a lot of products don’t really say where they are from. I avoid those products nowadays, but I never understood why it’s allowed in the first place. In the place where I’m from all products say so.
Isn’t Safeway an American owned company?
Sometimes its the only option for a supermarket in a small community (see: Alaska). Smithers has 5300 people, I doubt there’s anything but the Safeway.
Oh, it’s not the same Safeway anymore. wikipedia says: Safeway (also referred to as Canada Safeway) is a Canadian supermarket chain that operates 135 full-service locations, mostly in the country’s Western provinces. It was established in 1929 as a subsidiary of the American Safeway chain before being sold in 2013 to Sobeys, a division of the conglomerate Empire Company and Canada’s second-largest supermarket chain.
ed: you asked and I answered before scrolling to see the other “safeway, the american grocery chain?” thread lol
