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Canadian Candy? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Without the Nutty Club in operation, I can't really find anything made in Canada at all...

For chips we have Old Dutch and La Cochina and a few other good options. But I'm completely lost in the junk food aisle trying to find snacks for D&D.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Is your goal 'buy Canadian' or 'not buy American'?

Mine is to not buy from certain nations (US, China, Israel).

I ask because there are options from many other countries as others have mentioned. Just depends on what your goals are.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Both, but separately. When I was at Walmart last, I could find Belgian chocolate, British Wine Gums, etc. But I didn't really want to shop at Walmart, since their profits will still be funneled to the US.

So I went to my local Co-op. And everything there was basically Mars or Nestle or similar. Even the Co-op branded stuff was "imported by Co-op (Canada) under license" but wouldn't give me country of manufacture. Haribo and Storck were there from Germany, so it my objective was only to not-buy American, I could pull it off.

But the only things in the aisle that were provably Canadian were some of the chips and beef jerky.

Ended up with a bag of Haribo gummy bears.

Lots of other good advice in the comments, but I didn't see any of these brands in my Winnipeg Co-op. Will keep hunting :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

but I didn't see any of these brands in my Winnipeg Co-op.

Thw co-op at St Vital Center has British candy in the international foods aisle (as well as from some other countries).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Makes sense. It can be difficult unfortunately.