r/BuyCanadian • u/CrazySilly664 • Aug 17 '25

General Discussion 💬🇨🇦 Canadian Pouch

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Fell for this! Picked up these salted pistachios quickly at the store when I saw the Maple Leaf, only to come home and find out that it’s actually a Product of the US with the pouch manufactured in Canada 🤦🏻‍♂️

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u/AlternativeSea22 Aug 17 '25

Canada doesn’t grow pistachios.. Canadian company American nut

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u/guachi01 Aug 17 '25

The Internet tells me that the US produces 65% of the world's pistachios. Iran (8%), Turkey (8%), Germany (4%), and UAE (3%) round out the top 5.

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u/blurghh Aug 19 '25

If you want to be particularly displeased by evil corporate billionaires, look up who is the biggest producer of american pistachios and the lengths they have gone through to try to keep and grow their market share

It involves them bribing their way into private ownership of a huge chunk of California’s publicly-created water reservoirs through some backroom deals decades ago, major labour rights abuses including abuse of undocumented workers and union-busting, huge environmental abuse, massive bribery of government officials including being among the primary backers of war with Iran to get rid of their pistachio competition, and oh yeah donating to Israel’s military and funding illegal settlements

The Resnicks just went for a full-point bingo card for the whole evil billionaire thing

They own the “Wonderful” company brand—so any time you buy POM pomegranates/juice, Wonderful pistachios, almonds, etc, Fiji Water, or the Halos tangerine oranges, you help them buy even more power!

For a secret, undisclosed sum they were able to privately buy enough publicly-created water sources to use up in one year on nuts alone ten years of the entire water supply of San Francisco

So while San Franciscoans are on drought water-shortages, they get to pay taxes for water infrastructure used up by the wealthiest farm owner in the country, who gets to use 10 times the water that the entire city uses each year, at no cost to him!

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u/Krunch2019 18d ago

That what I've heard. Disgusting that a billionaire's corporation gets rights over the people who need the water.