Can we please not call Tim Hortons Canadian?
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
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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.
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.
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.
Tim Hortons is about as uncanadian as Starbucks, they’re owned by RBI, which is owned by 3Com, a Brazilian food conglomerate.
Earth’s Own is Canadian and makes pretty good oat milk.
I’ve already switched to them for a while since it’s more affordable than other coffee creamers.
Their Batista oat milk is great too, I legit prefer oat milk to dairy for most things, tastes better in coffee drinks imo.
100% Oat Milk lattes are no joke.
I like getting their almond milk packs from Costco.
Wait…
French’s ketchup is Canadian but French’s mustard is American???Old Dutch is the best. I grew up on the rippled sour cream and onion. I never got the lays appeal…
old dutch was always what we had when i was a kid. mom wouldn’t settle for anything less. it had to be old dutch chips in the box.
it is a minnesota company but their canadian operations is huge, with manufacturing facilities across the country.
Old Dutch All Dressed is really good too! I get the sour cream and cheddar every once in a while. It’s weirdly addictive. I also grew up on their ketchup chips.
Sour Cream and Cheddar is definitely their best imo.
I know it’s not a real option for many, but for those who can afford to I’d also recommend shopping local for groceries as much as possible. We need to stand together in the face of these tariffs, but I don’t love the idea of Loblaws and co. standing to gain so much from the struggles of the public yet again.
Check out local grocery stores and smaller chains like Co-Op if they operate in your area for Canadian made goods. Look and see if there’s a local farmers market you can buy staples like eggs and produce from. It’s the little guys that are likely to face an existential threat from all this international non-diplomacy.
Absolutely! This is the year where I finally sign up for a CSA. (I’m not a good cook and have always been a bit intimidated but apparently most come with recipes and honestly, all the AI has made me a lot more confident in my ability to “find” a few recipes with whatever random ingredients.)
I am not as against AI as your typical lemmy user, but I think LLMs generating recipes might sometimes not work the best? Especially if you are limiting the ingredients. If your on-hand ingredients typically wouldn’t be combined, it might hallucinate and spit out the recipe for some food crime creation. Maybe you’ve had a different experience though?
Oh, definitely not worth blindly trusting but I’ve had pretty good success when grabbing whatever is on sale at the grocery store or in excess in my pantry.
That being said, I use it as a planner, not in a “what can I make with what’s on hand.” So, a CSA box would have the stuff that I’d plan around! I haven’t tried more off the cuff but I rarely cook that way.
I know basic food safety so I’m only worried about a bad meal but of the last ten meals I made based on ai, a couple are going in my standard rotation and all but 1 worked out well. (The 1 being just fine.)
Have to make sure it’s a real farmers market though and not one that just buys bulk and resells calling them farm produce, often at a considerable markup.
I already shop almost exclusively at the local Polish grocery store. I have no idea what some of the products I’m buying are haha.
Probably mostly just kiełbasa, twaróg and kapusta. A good diet.
Edit: a “t”
All these mysterious pickled vegetables.
Honestly at least where I live the difference between farmers markets and grocery stores isn’t that big anymore. Given, I live on an island where non local stuff has to be shipped and the prices raised because of that, but I’ve been preferring the quality of local veggies way more. Though understandably if you’re struggling to make ends meet, I see why even a few dollars would make a difference.
I just came back from groceries, and I went in with every intention to not by anything from the USA. Much to my surprise, I’d say 90% of what I usually buy are products grown and made in Canada! The rest were from Spain, India, etc.
A few were made in Canada using domestic and imported ingredients, so I’ll be looking for all Canadian alternatives.
Orange juice was the only American product, and was a “one last time” purchase.
FYI, oats, most legumes and beans, and tomato products are nearly all Canadian.
Unico is a great Canadian brand for tinned beans, tomatoes, etc. I always buy it.
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
Those are some grim coffee options. If your store carries jumping bean (mine does) they’re from Newfoundland. There’s some good rosters you can buy online like Detour. Of course if you’re in a city like Vancouver Montreal or Toronto you have endless local rosters but even smaller towns will usually have one or two good ones.
I actually get mine only from a local coffee shop. I’d rather drink less and buy better local quality anyway. I have a subscription and they deliver once a month. It’s nice!
Any recommendations? I do kicking horse or ballzacks but its like $15-20+ per bag of beans, its a bit crazy now. I’m willing to try any alternative that has enough caffeine and tasts halfways decent.
This is the one we buy. They have a few shops too which are great. https://www.416-coffee.com/coffee-subscriptions-ontario?srsltid=AfmBOoprLxerAaOUJ2SILgpWiaBigI4HLeHdr34iywyGr-0OtjAO-cKn
https://www.coasttocoastcoffee.ca/ Run by a buddy of mine. Excellent coffee
I can’t speak for coffee, but I know several good local tea shops! Still not as convenient as the Starbucks on every corner, sure, but often better.
I’m in Nova Scotia and only drink Just Us - it’s roasted here and both Sobeys and Superstore carry it.
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.
Fantastic list! Where’d you find it?
For anyone scrolling, add Rustica to the frozen pizza list. Siwin for excellent dumplings. Cheemo for perogies. I’ve just found them in the past few months and they’re all really well made.
Someone put it on Facebook. Also https://madeinca.ca/
I shop at my local Polish grocery store. I have no idea what some things are but it feels much better to support them.
Kicking Horse Coffee is majority owned by Lavazza, an Italian company. Not Canadian, but still better to support than Tim Hortons.
I can’t wait for 2028.
I hope you can vote in 2028
Me too.
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.
