Kicking Horse Coffee is majority owned by Lavazza, an Italian company. Not Canadian, but still better to support than Tim Hortons.
Wait…
French’s ketchup is Canadian but French’s mustard is American???As an American, honestly just avoid those brands in general. Not because they’re American made, but many of them are already shit to begin with. Maybe it’s shrinkflation, or all the wacky chemicals, or the way they treat their workers.
So take this opportunity not only to be patriotic to your Canadian country, but to also improve your own standard of living and buying better quality foods.
Tim Hortons is about as uncanadian as Starbucks, they’re owned by RBI, which is owned by 3Com, a Brazilian food conglomerate.
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
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
Buy local and donate the difference if you really care. That way Rump doesn’t get that 25%, and it’s tax free.
I have to see what this tariff war does to prices here first but yes agreed.
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.
This list is the equivalent of French’s “proudly made in Canada” Ketchup response to the Heinz boycott from a couple years back when they’ve decided to close their Ontario factory. French’s still being just another US company, that did not close it’s Canadian plants at the time.
Also it’s full of shit products and seems to push galen’s stuff mostly, when there’s so many smaller, local alternatives.
Many American brands I’ve never even heard of. And Nestlé is Swiss, not from the US.
Nestle deserves to be boycotted for so many reasons.
Same as coke company…
Absolutely.
Please provide a list then.
Seriously. I understand you waving the flag pointing out the lowblaw connection (I noticed it too and I haven’t shopped at lowblaw or their counterparts more than a dozen times in the last 2 years), but people need alternatives.
Even ONE option would be helpful, otherwise you are just making this shit seem even more hopeless.
How can I provide you a list of local products specific to your area? I live in the more French part of Montreal, Le Plateau, and everything is full of products from France and Quebec. Highly irrelevant to what you likely have in say Toronto.
I used to live in the Junction and would frequent three non-galen stores in the area (a local butcher, Sweet Potato and Stari Grad) and never encountered either the listed US or Canadian brands, unless I had to go to the no frills in the area for cheap TP.
This list is simply stupid. It’s an infatuation with big consumer brands and outdated products. Very typical of North America.
Montreal’s a pretty big city. If you’re willing to do it, sharing your local expertise can help a lot of people.
Just try. Instead of whining uselessly. A single Canadian made product you enjoy. You don’t have one? Then you are the problem.
You don’t want people buying big name brands. You say everyone else is stupid. Fucking pull your weight then.
I’m sitting on the can and I can see ‘true earth’ brand toilet cleaner is made in Canada. They have laundry soap and dish soap too.
And I know my fancy Lush shampoos and stuff are super local, if you can afford it.
And just in case laundry detergent isn’t on the tariff list I have Okazu miso chili oil on my counter at all times.
And Matty Matheson has a brand of kraft dinner that’s pretty dang good and not that much more expensive than KD.
So what about you? Gonna keep whining about a shitty list or are you gonna post something helpful? If everyone else in this thread did the same thing we’d have something to work with.
I think their point was “don’t just buy Canadian, but local” which means the unless you live near each other, their recommendations won’t help. This is generally more impactful advice.
But I appreciate your point that we want to make it easy to avoid American products, to lower the bar so more people do it; so listing national brands makes that much more useful.
Their point was to whine. If we need to buy local and OP’s intention is not just to piss and moan they could give a single example, or link to a list, or start a little data base.
Even just list some tips to start figuring it out for yourself, like "go to your fridge and take out the most expensive/most used items. Find the label and figure out where it’s from. If it isn’t from Canada do a google search for “local mayonnaise” or “Ontario made cheese”, or “Toronto hot sauce” and start looking for alternatives. They aren’t the single only person living in Montreal on Lemmy, and even if they were, their recommendation could lead others to search in a different way for what they need.
I’m not disagreeing with anything said, I’m trying to encourage the whiners to also contribute, as I have been as I whine about whiners. It should be a requirement.
I think there is still value in their reminder that Galen Weston isn’t forgiven, despite being Canadian; so don’t get so caught up in our passion to switch to Canadian brands that we end up giving our money to someone nearly as bad.
I still don’t really think them listing a single example (or many) would prove anything, or be meaningfully useful. I wouldn’t mind hearing some of their experience in looking for local, so people know what to expect, but I don’t think we need to be upset that they didn’t.
In other words, I think they are contributing, even if their tone is perhaps not ideal for moving people to action.
Can we please not call Tim Hortons Canadian?
Exactly. Restaurant Brands which owns Burger King, Tim Hortons and Popeyes is a US company. Tim Hortons is garbage anyway.
Their name is ‘restaurant brands’? that’s so blandly corporate evil
It’s actually Brazilian.
Is that why they’re so smooth?
Well if there’s one place you don’t want hair, it’s in your coffee. Hang in there up there we’re rooting for you just south of the border.
According to Wikipedia they’re headquartered in Toronto
In 2014, Burger King bought Tim Hortons in a merger that formed Restaurant Brands International; a primarily American company, though headquartered in Toronto alongside Tim Hortons (for tax purposes). Both then and now, RBIs primary assets/interests are in America.
Ah, good to know. Thanks.
Sorry I didn’t make the list, that is dumb.
Who did make it? What is its source?
Nor is Robin Good and Four roses
I can’t wait for 2028.
I hope you can vote in 2028
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.
Seeing all these American companies earnings go down next report would be glorious.
Cool to see some brands I already use on here. Speaking of, I kinda thought everyone used Sun-Rype for their juice anyway. I mean, I am biased as I’ve been by their HQ multiple times so it just feels natural to buy their brand, but still.
Loblaws will continue to receive none of my money.
Fuck galen. Fuck Presidents choice anything.
They will probably raise their prices AGAIN in times of hardship to make hundred of millions more.
I will not eat their products.
I will eat the rich.
I will shoplift their products though.
but not from a canadian-owned store
Unless it’s Loblaws
There are more local options not from PC nor the US that OP didn’t list, the most obvious one to me is frozen pizzas.
At least in Quebec, there are so many non-American frozen pizza brands I can’t possibly list them all, two of them would be ILIOS and Como’s.
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
