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Old Sep 18, 2019, 12:17 pm
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What country is the food you eat from?
Moments ago, I just ate a cookie made in Sweden but sold in the US. That got me to thinking. What countries have made food that you ate? Let me start...

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Asia
Indonesia - cookies
Japan - rice snacks
Singapore - Hello Panda brand cookies

Europe
Belgium - Biscoff on Delta Airlines
Sweden - Gille brand cookies
Germany - Balhsen brand cookies
France - LU brand cookies
Netherlands - bottled mushrooms
Spain - olive oil

Africa
Morocco - sardines

Americas
Canada - meat, sardines
Mexico - Lays style Pringles copy
USA - lots of things

Any unusual or far away countries
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Old Sep 18, 2019, 3:36 pm
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Please follow this thread in the FT Dining Buzz Forum
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Old Sep 19, 2019, 8:15 pm
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Originally Posted by Toshbaf
Moments ago, I just ate a cookie made in Sweden but sold in the US. That got me to thinking. What countries have made food that you ate? Let me start...

(List is incomplete)

Asia
Indonesia - cookies
Japan - rice snacks
Singapore - Hello Panda brand cookies

Europe
Belgium - Biscoff on Delta Airlines
Sweden - Gille brand cookies
Germany - Balhsen brand cookies
France - LU brand cookies
Netherlands - bottled mushrooms
Spain - olive oil

Africa
Morocco - sardines

Americas
Canada - meat, sardines
Mexico - Lays style Pringles copy
USA - lots of things

Any unusual or far away countries
Several jars of fruit from the Philippines.
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Old Sep 20, 2019, 7:50 pm
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the kimchi and other banchan i eat almost daily are decidedly from the US.
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Old Oct 1, 2019, 3:29 pm
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The last impressive discovery was while eating a bunch of Kiwi from New Zeland while being in France (+19,000km away)
Pineapple - Costa Rica
Banana - Peru
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Old Oct 27, 2019, 12:24 pm
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Some of the tasty treats I discovered while travelling or that have travelled to where I purchase them from:

Kalles Kaviar (salted cod roe in a tube) - Sweden
Kagi chocolate wafers - Switzerland
Milka chocolates - Austria

Calbee potato chips - Japan
Seasoned seaweed - Japan and South Korea
Yuzu Honey - Japan
Mangosteen and Duku - Indonesia
Mao Shan Wang Durian - Malaysia
Candied Hawthorne - China
Lychees - China
Cheese chips - South Korea

Espresso nougat candies - Australia

Sahale Snacks Nuts - USA
Maple syrup candies - Canada
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Old Oct 28, 2019, 11:30 am
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Looking at today's food:

Muesli - UK
Yoghurt - UK
Banana - Caribbean
Mince beef - Ireland
Lettuce - UK
Tomato - UK
Coffee - Kenya
Fish - UK
Green Beans - Kenya
Orange - South Africa
Physalis - Columbia

I was slightly surprised with more from the UK than I was expecting and only the mince beef from the EU.
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Old Oct 29, 2019, 12:05 am
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Originally Posted by lhrsfo
Looking at today's food:

Muesli - UK
Yoghurt - UK
Banana - Caribbean
Mince beef - Ireland
Lettuce - UK
Tomato - UK
Coffee - Kenya
Fish - UK
Green Beans - Kenya
Orange - South Africa
Physalis - Columbia

I was slightly surprised with more from the UK than I was expecting and only the mince beef from the EU.
So you believe that the raisins and nuts in your Muesli are from the U.K.?
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Old Oct 29, 2019, 8:29 am
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I notice that many foods in my pantry identify the location of the distributor and not the place of origin.
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Old Nov 18, 2019, 12:33 am
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So you believe that the raisins and nuts in your Muesli are from the U.K.?

If grapes for making wine can be grown in the UK, I bet grapes to dry, making raisins, can too.

The majority of muesli blends I buy mainly have hazelnuts and walnuts, both of which may be harvested in even slightly less tropical climates than what the southern part of UK may offer.
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Old Nov 18, 2019, 1:41 am
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If grapes for making wine can be grown in the UK, I bet grapes to dry, making raisins, can too.

The majority of muesli blends I buy mainly have hazelnuts and walnuts, both of which may be harvested in even slightly less tropical climates than what the southern part of UK may offer.
Just around the corner from me is a place where the majority of the mueslis that are “made in the U.K.” are assembled.
Sure the more “tropical” fruits and nuts “may” be harvested in Britain, the reality is that they are - and I say this with almost total certainty - not. But there is nothing to stop anyone buying or even growing the component parts and making up their British muesli themselves. But no point kidding oneself that a fully U.K. product is what was being referred to.

https://www.michellesblog.co.uk/alar...n-kings-cross/
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Old Nov 19, 2019, 1:03 am
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Olive oil - Lebanon

Dates/tahini/pita (khobz) - Saudi Arabia

Everything else would be a wild guess, considering I am now sipping a ginger, lemon,
mint, and orange juice
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