Posted on 05/05/2024 3:55:37 AM PDT by Adder
Are you a pickle connoisseur? If so, extreme weather in Mexico may be impacting the availability of the snack in the U.S.
Every year, Americans consume more than 20 billion pickles, but recently, consumers have noticed some restaurants warning of a "national pickle shortage."
The warnings from restaurants such as Firehouse Subs, local delis and others are generally bona fide, as both the U.S. Department of Agriculture and experts from North Carolina State University say that the combination of reliance on imports and extreme weather could impact supplies.
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I was looking for some of those little candied sweet pickles yesterday and didn’t find any.
Do they still make them?
Some are even chopped off the vine. lol
I didn’t know there was a plastic tab. That must be the key!
I will reserve that concern on the list of things I will worry about when I don’t have things to be concerned about.
It’s easy to miss. It’s sort of formed into the rim of the lid but there’s no obvious indication. I’m sure you’re not the first one to overlook it.
Thanks for the tip.
If you ask me, they still need to redesign that lid.
Just checked my smart phone, they haven’t yet called me up, asking for my ‘valuable’ advice.
I agree and have had the same thought about their packaging — i.e. that it’s a real problem. Even when you know the tab trick for getting the lid off, it’s not easy to get it back on securely. You have to be very intentional in applying even pressure around the whole thing for it to fully seat. In fact they’ve recently added a sticker to the lid with a note about how to put it back on. IMO their current tub design flunks the basic test of consumer packaging, which is that it should *just work* without having to think about it. Which is too bad because the pickles are top notch!
“...most of their tomatoes from Mexico...”
When I was a kid in California, we bought most of our local tomatoes from places like Fresno, Yolo, San Joaquin, Kings, and Colusa Counties. Significant production also occurs in Merced, Stanislaus, Solano, and Sutter Counties.
And the time of year one shops in California is part of ther equation, also.
The peak export season for Mexico runs from January to June, with the highest volumes in March, a contribution that complements production in the United States, which takes place mostly in California and Florida during the months of June to October.
We do buy a lot of tomatoes from Mexico along with Canada. But during the season the sales are cut down, the local products are used more. World tomato exports have increased by an average of 0.9% each year from 2011 to 2020, a trend that will apparently continue for at least a couple of years, making this agri-food product extremely important in economic terms, mainly for the countries most involved in its trade flow, such as Mexico, the United States, the Netherlands and Germany.
wy69
Pickle slices go on burgers.
Pickle relish goes in tuna and potato salad.
This is nothing but a corporate plot on the part of Big Pickle. Don’t fall for it.
We do buy a lot of tomatoes from Mexico along with Canada.
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I’ve noticed that the on-the-vine type tomatoes that have become common in recent years are mostly, or maybe exclusively, from Canada. I guess those crafty Canucks perfected the method for growing and packaging them. Canada is so far north I assume they’re grown in greenhouses.
Pickles and pickle connoisseurs existed in the U.S., long before Mexican supplies.
I know right?....lol...
next it'll be olives, then feta cheese....there's no ending to this madness.
“I guess those crafty Canucks perfected the method for growing and packaging them. Canada is so far north I assume they’re grown in greenhouses.”
They have found them profitable. But their system of growth in interesting. In the spring they receive their transplants. They don’t plant tomatoes from a seed. Their season in Canada is shorter than the largest growing area in the world, which is California.
So the seeds are planted into greenhouses there in mid March through mid April, and then starting in May, they’ll transplant seedlings that are five inches (15 centimetres) in height. They’ve even got automatic or semiautomatic transplanters that plant two rows for each of the beds. There’s actually two rows of tomatoes in there. They will basically take care of them through cultivation. There’ll be some fertilizer that’s put down before they plant so only moisture and insect care from there. They also rotate crops in the off season like wheat and other grains to assist the soil. It quite a process and a lot of the fields have been tomato during their time for years.
wy69
Thanks, that’s very interesting. I knew there had to be a backstory to those Canadian tomatoes.
Well, the Grillos people must read FR because they’ve given their pickle containers a new lid...
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