Packer outsources Northwest pickles (Nalley) "great taste of the Northwest" "product of India"

[Kadie]

Wednesday, April 2, 2008 - Page updated at 12:16 PM

Packer outsources Northwest pickles, local cuke growers snap

A Nalley pickle jar says "great taste of the Northwest" on the front label and "product of India" on the back.

Nalley is owned by Bay Valley Foods of Green Bay, Wis., which is closing a processing plant in Portland.

Without the plant, the company says it no longer needs cucumbers from the Skagit Valley and Oregon. Bay Valley, which also produces, Farman's and Steinfeld's pickles is a division of TreeHouse Foods.

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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004322235_apwanorthwestpickles.html?syndication=rss



Nalley brand pickles, featuring the front of the jar with the label 'Great Taste of the Northwest,' photographed on Tuesday, April 1, 2008, in Seattle, Wash.
(AP Photo/Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Paul Joseph Brown) MANDATORY CREDIT


Nalley brand pickles, featuring the back of the jar showing 'Product of India,' photographed on Tuesday, April 1, 2008 in Seattle, Wash.
(AP Photo/Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Paul Joseph Brown) MANDATORY CREDIT

[Deja Q]

1. Well, if it's Northwest India, then it's not misadvertising...

:crazy:

Fuck pickles. Eh, not literally...

[MadMaddie]

2. Won't be buying their product anymore then.

There is no way they can guarantee that the food products are safe.

[marmar]

3. Good grief......It would be funny if it wasn't so tragic.

:rofl: :cry:

[Systematic Chaos]

4. Well, DUH!

Don't you know they're referring to northwest INDIA? :eyes:


Just in case you missed it, that was :sarcasm:

[Olney Blue]

5. Speaking of Pickles, where has she been lately?

[grasswire]

6. what?????????????????????

Outrageous!!

They'd better not outsource Steinfeld's.

So it's not just the labor that's outsourced. Now they are using produce from the laborers' locale.

I can't stand it.

[stevedeshazer]

7. They already did

http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080214/BUSINESS/802140305/1040

:(

[MisterP]

8. hmm, must mean Assam n/t

[madrchsod]

9. i look at every label when i buy food

if it ain`t from the usa,eu,or canada i go without...

[Hannah Bell]

10. How much has the price come down?

Some nice super-profits they're making off Indian farm labor & indian factory workers.

[depakid]

11. I just checked those out this evening- same price as always

and the same pictures of NorthWest Cascades on some of them. The fine print does show "product of India" -and they're still full of unnecessary additives like Yellow #5 and Polysorbate 80.

(which is why I never bought that brand in the first place. Want to color them, use a little tumeric, geniuses.

If you're into decent pickles and are on a budget, Trader Joes has much larger bottles, sans the additives, for a cheaper price- albeit they're Canadian.

[Quantess]

14. Thanks for the suggestion.

I've never tried Trader Joe's pickles. I'll take Canadian pickles over Indian ones.

[jmowreader]

12. Let me get this straight:

it's cheaper to import pickles from India than it is to grow and process them in the US? You'd think the shipping alone would be enough to fuck that up!

[Stinky The Clown]

13. Another thing to add to my retail shopping "Ignore" list