Some Southern Comfort??.......NOT !

[Mus408]

So my wife brings home a nice bag of cashews from her grocery trip,I believe it was Aldies, and I have eaten quite a few. Name of the bag is Southern Grove and it looks like a nice Southern style comfy bag.
THEN I happen to glance at the back of bag looking for something else and see Packed in Viet Nam and also notice "cashews from Viet Nam,Indonesia,India.
Feeling sick now since no telling what these nuts have been through,in or handled with!!!!!
I just get a picture of little dark smoky huts...grubby little hands and pigs and chickens ruuning all around!

 

[JPGLSG]

Just yesterday I opened a bag of organic edamame beans (soy beans) to boil for five minutes to add to a salad we were eating. The countless times I driven out west and the hundreds maybe thousands of soy beans fields that I have seen. While looking at the package closely seeing packaged in CA, product from China, I just shook my head and threw them in the trash. Give me a brake organic edamames from China, with the US full of bean fields. I don't do the shopping I'm just the cook but I've got this thing about food from other countries and the desire not to eat it if possible.

 

[RSIno1]

There is a place in the CA desert called Hadley's - been there since at least the 1950s. It's always sold dates, dried fruits, etc. They opened a new big store and most of the stuff is now from Mexico, China and other 3rd world countries. No need to stop there anymore.

 

[Mus408]

So just where is all our home grown food going?

 

[Jimbo357mag]

So just where is all our home grown food going?

Wallmart.

 

[wolfsong]

So just where is all our home grown food going?

To other countries.

 

[Pistolero]

I haven't found good USA grown tomatoes in our local grocery stores for over a year. All I find are slightly bitter, vine ripened or cherry tomatoes grown in Mexico.

 

[winchester37]

check out the packages of OREO cookies, most say 'Made in Mexico'. Sorry Oreos folks, I won't buy them.

 

[wheelgun1958]

check out the packages of OREO cookies, most say 'Made in Mexico'. Sorry Oreos folks, I won't buy them.

Look at the bright side. That's so many Mexicans that aren't here.

 

[gasbag]

So just where is all our home grown food going?

Ever wonder why you can't buy a good crisp apple anymore?
You know, the ones that go "snap" when you pull off a bite.
All the good stuff is shipped overseas, we get what's left over.
I haven't found a good apple, cantaloupe or pear for years.
The apples are soft and the pears and cantaloupes are hard.

 

[Colonialgirl]

They pick EVERYTHING way too green anymore, NONE of it is as sweet and tasty as it should be. Look at the strawberries in the market; When I was a kid earning money the farmer would have FIRED ME if I brought a pint of berries up that were THAT GREEN. The LAST good apples I ever ate was as a Junior in HS in Portland, OR and could get the fully RIPE Deep Red "DELICIOUS" apples from Washington, Bite into them and the juice squirted by BOTH ears!!

 

[wolfsong]

Want fresh fruits and vegetables without growing your own? Buy them at your local farmer's market or vegetable stands at the l9cal flea market. Roadside stands are good, too. Many growers will let you "pick 'n pay" your own right from the fields and orchards. It's not as convenient as going to the mega supermarket but you can make a fun day out of hitting the different options. You can even find canned/pickled delicacies like okra, olives, dilly beans, salsas, you name it. I buy all my honey from local bee keepers, at least a gallon over the course of a year, if not more.

A little extra effort is worth the hassle when you taste the difference.

 

[Skoopski]

Where did you think cashews came from? Every cashew you've ever eaten has come from either India, Africa, or Vietnam. There are no commercial growers of cashews in the US. It requires a frost free tropical environment to grow in. Which would limit us to extreme southern Florida, Hawaii, or Puerto Rico (if you count that one). And as far as the soybeans go, the majority of it goes to animal feed.