• mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    better or worse than Bick’s?

    Bick’s are like the default pickle up here in Ontario, and they’re American so obvs a lot of us aren’t buying them anymore. they still have a lot of shelf space, but I’ve started to see a lot of other brands get more. not more US brands though so I doubt I’ll ever see these

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      18 hours ago

      I’ve never had or heard of Bick’s actually so I couldn’t say. Looks like it was a Canadian brand that was bought by an American company so maybe we don’t have it, we probably have the same product under a different name somewhere tho, like 4 companies make everything now

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        17 hours ago

        Looked them up. Apparently they used to be owned by Smuckers, who kept the production in Canada, but they got sold to a company called Treehouse Foods, who moved it to Wisconsin. Treehouse apparently mostly makes store brand products.

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          17 hours ago

          I’ve almost certainly had them then as I live in Wisconsin and have bought store brand pickles before, thank you for the info :) I guess I would say better than Bick’s then, because I think they recycle old pickle juice for the store pickles or something, at least the ones I’ve tried haha

          • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
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            16 hours ago

            I will say that I’ve never found Bick’s to be terrible. a bit bland. but they do have several different flavours.

            but yeah there’s Canadian stuff I can buy instead

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        16 hours ago

        okay that makes sense because prior to the whole “we’re gonna invade your country” thing, I just assumed they were Canadian. but then I checked, and… nope, product of USA