I just learned that my 2 fav snacks are from america: potato chips (has potato), and popcorn (has maize). What are some non-US snacks I could try instead?
thanks
lmao what
This is c/BoycottUS. Even if you want to boycott things based on their “ancestry”, maize is from Mexico and potatoes from Peru, not the US.
“Guys, I just learned that the vegetables I eat are descendants of plants that grew on Pangaea. Can people help me distinguish what parts of Pangaea they grew on so I don’t support plants descended from modern American soil?”
Yes! Finally someone gets it. Have you got suggestions?
Can you find Haldiram’s chips in your local stores? Potatoes were native to the Americas, but have been widely naturalized around the world. India is the second-largest potato producer in the world, and Haldiram’s is based it Uttar Pradesh. I would wager that they use local potatoes.
naturalized or not, better to boycot all
What message are you trying to send by boycotting a vegetable domesticated in South America, and brought to Europe by Spanish explorers about 500 years ago?
Ignorance mostly
It’s serious business
You must be trolling.
There’s nothing USA about potatoes or corn.
Corn, or maize, was first domesticated by the native populations near Mexico, and potatoes have been a staple food in Europe for a really long time, to the point where Ireland had a famine when they lost their potato crop.
If that’s what you like, may I suggest patato chips (from patato’s grown outside us, baked in oil made outside us, packaged outside us, sold outside us unless the brand, the company and or the seller are a subsidiary of a us corp) and popcorn (from maize grown outside us, popped outside us, packaged outside us, sold outside us unless the brand, the company and or the seller are a subsidiary of a us corp). If you’re from Mexico or Canada this might be hard, but if you’re not it’s quite doable since I don’t think it is economically sensible ship this stuff across an ocean.
Don’t forget Tomatoes, sunflowers, many beans, chocolate, vanilla, many nuts, most strawberries, most blueberries, tobacco, and rubber.
It’s amazing thinking about how much lives must have changed as these plants spread around the world.
I’m not sure how impactful boycotting these products would be, of course. Perhaps volunteering your time to help remove invasive plants from your local environment, that originated in North and South America, would be a more impactful use of energy. There’s certainly a lot of them out there causing problems.
Wheat Crunch
If you want non-American crisps KP Snacks are made by a UK company which is owned by a German company. Basically everything they make is good. I think the potatoes at least are grown in the UK.
Crunchips are German? I’ve seen them in quite a few other countries and they’re good as well.
