Post #4133354

2026-07-27 04:45 UTC

On that note, have you taken a good look at the country of origin of stuff you&#39;re regularly buying? We&#39;ve been recently very surprised to find that: * Sunrice (Australia) now import from Thailand + India only IIRC * Practically all cooking oil now comes from Malaysia... But god knows if some of that actually secretly comes from China now! (For record, China had scandals involving &quot;recycled&quot; cooking oil scraped from filthy back alleys... and/or other ones involving cooking oil transported in petroloum tankers!!!) * Equally disturbing is how we&#39;re increasingly having no local garlic across increasingly many months (I.e. used to be only summer, but now winter too), with only the Chinese produced ones (looking way too artifically uniform)/beyond stocked! * Oh, and Nashi pears have long ended up being mostly China only too, despite us previously having some local supply (oh, and the supermarkets often mislabel these!)

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@DMakarios@theres.life 2026-07-27 04:58

@aligorith@mastodon.nz I recently noticed that Ashford yarns, made from NZ wool, are nonetheless spun in China. Shipped there, then shipped back to be sold. 🙄

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@futuresprog@mastodon.nzoss.nz 2026-07-27 06:09

This is where online shopping really hurts us. We pick a specific brand, grown in a specific place (if we can read the country of origin) and then they’ll substitute another brand grown in a country I don’t trust. It’s also annoying that somehow “Packaged in NZ from imported ingredients” is somehow allowed. My local shop selling local pea protein told me that it comes in a container from overseas and they slap a label on it. @aligorith@mastodon.nz

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@zl2tod@mastodon.online 2026-07-28 06:08

@aligorith@mastodon.nz Perhaps 20 years ago a truck with a bladder of oil sprung a leak heading north from Pukerua Bay until it was stopped at Lindale, north of Paraparaumu. Cars were going everywhere. People were hurt. Ron, the local traffic cop, looked at the bill of lading: mineral oil destined for KFC branches. A couple of months later there was a column inch in the papers in which KFC announced they would no longer be cooking in mineral oil.

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