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[–] [email protected] 18 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Is there a list somewhere of commonly found American products in European supermarket so that I can definitely not do a bit of this..?

I lose track of all the daughter companies and such that one should watch out for.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Here is a list that may be helpful

https://files.catbox.moe/jtmcb5.pdf

And if you were not totally against using AI, then you could load that list to Mistral, take a pic and identify things quickly. As per the photo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks! I find the method interesting. Are the results mostly accurate in your experience?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

I haven’t done any proper validation - was just a very basic PoC, using resources available to anyone (a list of companies and their subsidiary brands + free LLM) to see if it would work in principle.

The file itself is sourced from Wikipedia, so is probably accurate enough if you just wanted to ctrl+f and search manually.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (5 children)

minus Nestle (sadly) and Unilever

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Nestlé doesn't need to be American for you to boycott it though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

In this community it kinda does but I still agree in general

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

This image alone proves that governments only care about monopolies in writing 😂

Edit: Aw fuck, Ms Vickies is Canadian but owned by Pepsi? Fml. So in the end, it's not really Canadian. We can't have anything good...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

I hope so, I'm running out of chips that are real Canadian chips 😂

[–] [email protected] 22 points 14 hours ago

This picture is going through the net for so long, still German news are trying to convince its readers that there aren't many American products on European supermarket shelves.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 14 hours ago

TIL Garnier is affiliated with Nestlé. And here I thought I found good vegan bleach to dye my hair. Smh my head

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

Thanks, fixed it