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Here's a list of US products and their Canadian equivalents you can keep handy for your next trip to the grocery store. Sorry, not sorry US friends.

Dairy Products
Instead of Kraft (cheese, dairy) → Try Saputo, Black Diamond, Armstrong
Instead of Philadelphia (cream cheese) → Try Lactantia, Tre Stelle, Agropur
Instead of Yoplait (yogurt) → Try Astro, Olympic, Liberté
Instead of Land O'Lakes (butter) → Try Lactantia, Natrel, Gay Lea

Soft Drinks & Beverages
Instead of Coca-Cola, Pepsi → Try Canada Dry, PC Cola, Great Value (Walmart)
Instead of Tropicana (juice) → Try Oasis, SunRype, Arthur’s
Instead of Gatorade, Powerade → Try BioSteel (Canadian sports drink)
Instead of Starbucks bottled drinks → Try Tim Hortons, Second Cup ready-to-drink beverages

Packaged & Snack Foods
Instead of Lay's (chips) → Try Old Dutch, Covered Bridge, Hardbite
Instead of Doritos, Cheetos → Try Neal Brothers, Hardbite tortilla chips
Instead of Kellogg's (cereal) → Try Nature’s Path, Barbara’s, Quaker (some products Canadian-made)
Instead of Nabisco (cookies/crackers) → Try Dare, Leclerc, Voortman
Instead of Campbell's (soups) → Try Habitant (by Loblaws), President’s Choice soups
Instead of Heinz (ketchup, sauces) → Try French's (Canadian-made ketchup), President’s Choice

Meat & Processed Foods
Instead of Oscar Mayer (deli meats) → Try Maple Leaf, Schneiders, Pillers
Instead of Hormel (bacon, ham) → Try Olymel, Grimm’s
Instead of Tyson Foods (chicken products) → Try Lilydale, Maple Lodge Farms
Instead of Beyond Meat (plant-based) → Try Yves Veggie Cuisine, Gardein

Condiments & Sauces
Instead of Hellmann’s (mayonnaise) → Try President's Choice, Compliments
Instead of French's (mustard) → Try Kozlik’s, President's Choice
Instead of Hidden Valley (salad dressing) → Try Renee’s, Kraft (Canadian-made varieties)
Instead of Tabasco (hot sauce) → Try Dawson's, Piri Piri by PC, No Name hot sauce

Baking Products
Instead of Pillsbury (flour, baking mixes) → Try Robin Hood, Five Roses, Compliments
Instead of Betty Crocker (cake mixes) → Try President’s Choice, No Name
Instead of Hershey’s (chocolate chips) → Try Camino, Laura Secord, PC chocolate chips
Instead of Domino (sugar) → Try Redpath (Canadian brand)

Frozen Foods
Instead of Green Giant (vegetables) → Try Arctic Gardens, Compliments, No Name
Instead of Stouffer’s (frozen meals) → Try President’s Choice, M&M Food Market
Instead of Eggo (waffles) → Try Nature’s Path, President’s Choice
Instead of DiGiorno (frozen pizza) → Try Dr. Oetker (some made in Canada), President’s Choice

Coffee & Tea
Instead of Starbucks → Try Tim Hortons, Second Cup, Van Houtte
Instead of Folgers → Try Nabob, Kicking Horse Coffee
Instead of Lipton (tea) → Try Red Rose, Tetley (some products Canadian-made)
Instead of Nestlé (coffee creamers) → Try International Delight (Canadian-made), Beatrice creamers

Personal Care Products (found at grocery stores)
Instead of Colgate (toothpaste) → Try Green Beaver, Tom’s of Maine (some Canadian-made)
Instead of Dove (soap, shampoo) → Try Live Clean, The Green Beaver Company
Instead of Head & Shoulders → Try Attitude, The Unscented Company
Instead of Gillette (razors, shaving cream) → Try Schick (some Canadian-made), Personna

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Appropriately titled record for this week's political events. Democrazy was completely canned when it came out in 2003 with criticism of both the DIY sound but also Damon personally for choosing to release this. Over 20 years later, this vinyl only EP with it's spectacular packaging has been getting a lot of appreciation. Recorded during Blur's US tour for Think Tank, several of the songs on this would feature on later albums and become hits including I Need A Gun, which turned into the Gorillaz song Dirty Harry. Half a Song 20 years later became The Ballad on Blurs latest album.

Maybe it's because I was listening to a lot of DIY and outside folk stuff in the early 2000s that I found something quite intimate about this record and couldn't understand all the negativity. But then as a long time Blur stan perhaps I was biased.

The raw demo of Half Song is heartbreakly exquisite and the full version on The Ballad is just stunning, one of my favourites.

#Democrazy #blur #Damonalbarn #Gorillaz #vinyl #records #music #coffeeandvinyl #nowplaying #nowspinning

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jackb

2025-01-24 23:39:07

Diasp.org is shutting down (b.diasp.org/2024/12/28/2025-di…), and it seems that it is impossible to retrieve my profile data. It sucks. Lots of memories and posts are potentially irremediably lost despite this being part of a FOSS project.

Anyway, I’m not sure whether I will re-open a new Diaspora account, but I can give you my Mastodon one (which I still barely use: mathstodon.xyz/@bergami). I noticed this can interact with Friendica, but not with the Diaspora protocol. Mastodon seems to partially interact with Friendica servers (I see Friendica's posts from Mastodon). Still, any communication with Diaspora pods is impossible (I tried to look for Diaspora profiles but to no avail). I’m open to suggestions for possible Friendica servers having easier connections with Diasp pods, so I’m not losing the connections here (despite I barely log in due to work contingencies). For the time being, I managed to open this other account: friendica.world/profile/jackb

It was good till it lasted.

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Giacomo /ˈd͡ʒaːkomo/ Bergami (@bergami@mathstodon.xyz)

7 Posts, 8 Following, 6 Followers · Lecturer in Game Technology in School of Computing, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne. Opinions are my own (Of course they are. What'd you think they were? That's all I need.)

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