The other day I wanted to buy pickled cucumbers at the local Woolworths. They had a number of choices – but, interestingly, didn't matter what brand, almost every jar of them was made in India. They do normally stock one Australian-made brand (Westmont Pickles), but it was out of stock. Separate from the main section, they had a couple of other brands of pickles in the "international foods" section. Both were labelled as "Polish", and one was "Made in Poland", but the other one was made in India too.
They normally stock two different brands of Dolmades. I find it amusing that their cheap store brand is made in Greece, while the more expensive "named brand" is made in China.
I am going back tomorrow morning, to buy bacon. Now I feel the urge to check how true your "Most bacon is Canadian" statement is.
Yeah you are right. The highest Australian percentage I could find was 21% on Woolworths store brand. Interestingly, the more expensive “named brands” all had lower local content percentages than the cheaper store brand does.
Is the overseas content Canadian? Alas, the product packaging doesn’t say. I’d think, for something like bacon, they should have to state the country of origin of the major ingredient (which for bacon is obviously pork)
I know an ex-JDS employee who told me it's Canadian, and both because of cost of production and fat to meat ratio available from Australian pork production.
One other factor that article mentioned – Australian pork is more expensive than imported pork, in part due to tougher animal welfare standards driving up production costs. The article says Australian pork farmers hope the government might change the labelling laws, to make it harder to present foreign pork as being "Made in Australia". Maybe one day it will happen.
They normally stock two different brands of Dolmades. I find it amusing that their cheap store brand is made in Greece, while the more expensive "named brand" is made in China.
I am going back tomorrow morning, to buy bacon. Now I feel the urge to check how true your "Most bacon is Canadian" statement is.