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[–] JasminIstMuede@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 day 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.

[–] Mobster@feddit.uk 2 points 11 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.

[–] JasminIstMuede@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Mobster@feddit.uk 2 points 11 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.

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 39 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (5 children)

minus Nestle (sadly) and Unilever

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

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

[–] CherryBullets@lemmy.ca 11 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 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...

[–] Daisyday@lemmy.ca 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] CherryBullets@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] AceStructor@feddit.org 22 points 23 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.

[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 8 points 23 hours ago

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

[–] Th0rgue@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 1 points 23 hours ago

Thanks, fixed it