Favourite TV snack? - eviltoast

I just learned that my 2 fav snacks are from america: potato chips (has potato), and popcorn (has maize). What are some non-US snacks I could try instead?

thanks

  • klu9@lemmy.caEnglish
    18·
    2 months ago

    This is c/BoycottUS. Even if you want to boycott things based on their “ancestry”, maize is from Mexico and potatoes from Peru, not the US.

  • SwingingTheLamp@midwest.socialEnglish
    9·
    2 months ago

    Can you find Haldiram’s chips in your local stores? Potatoes were native to the Americas, but have been widely naturalized around the world. India is the second-largest potato producer in the world, and Haldiram’s is based it Uttar Pradesh. I would wager that they use local potatoes.

      • SwingingTheLamp@midwest.socialEnglish
        13·
        2 months ago

        What message are you trying to send by boycotting a vegetable domesticated in South America, and brought to Europe by Spanish explorers about 500 years ago?

          • setVeryLoud(true);@lemmy.caEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            You must be trolling.

            There’s nothing USA about potatoes or corn.

            Corn, or maize, was first domesticated by the native populations near Mexico, and potatoes have been a staple food in Europe for a really long time, to the point where Ireland had a famine when they lost their potato crop.

    • iii@mander.xyzOPEnglish
      17·
      2 months ago

      Yes! Finally someone gets it. Have you got suggestions?

  • huppakee@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    If that’s what you like, may I suggest patato chips (from patato’s grown outside us, baked in oil made outside us, packaged outside us, sold outside us unless the brand, the company and or the seller are a subsidiary of a us corp) and popcorn (from maize grown outside us, popped outside us, packaged outside us, sold outside us unless the brand, the company and or the seller are a subsidiary of a us corp). If you’re from Mexico or Canada this might be hard, but if you’re not it’s quite doable since I don’t think it is economically sensible ship this stuff across an ocean.

  • twinnie@feddit.ukEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    If you want non-American crisps KP Snacks are made by a UK company which is owned by a German company. Basically everything they make is good. I think the potatoes at least are grown in the UK.

    Crunchips are German? I’ve seen them in quite a few other countries and they’re good as well.