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French's introduces "100 per cent Canadian" ketchup

Accepted submission by butthurt at 2017-05-09 12:19:53
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butthurt [soylentnews.org] writes:

The CBC reports [www.cbc.ca] that

Previously some French's ketchup sold in Canada was manufactured in the United States, but that's no longer the case.

The company has begun ketchup production in the North York [wikipedia.org] district of Toronto, using tomatoes grown in Canada. In 2014, competitor Heinz (now Kraft Heinz [wikipedia.org]) closed [www.cbc.ca] the factory in Leamington, Ontario [wikipedia.org] where Heinz had begun; a wave of nationalist fervour [www.cbc.ca] followed when [nationalpost.com]

[...] a Facebook post by Orillia resident Brian Fernandez went viral, extolling the virtues of French’s ketchup and sympathizing with Leamington over the loss of Heinz jobs.

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