Kiwi-owned chips in Kilbirnie? You have got to be joking
I have been looking for a New Zealand-owned company making potato chips at my local supermarkets (my friend Andrew Carr-Smith informs me there is a brand called Proper Crisps being sold at Moore Wilson, but it’s too out of the way for me). I always knew ETA was foreign-owned (I assumed it was by Danone, but it appears to be by an Australian group) and Bluebird is part of Pepsi-Cola, so I consciously looked for Kiwi-owned now, as I do with other foods. I saw these Copper Kettle Chips as the only non-Bluebird, non-ETA branded alternative, and bought a bag—only to find based on a quick surf that I once again have enriched an American corporation.
Conclusion: the only place where I can get chips made by a New Zealand-owned company is across town. The possible exception is the Pam’s brand, which I can get at Miramar New World, a small drive away. Shamefully, my local Kilbirnie supermarket is not patriotic, with not a single domestically owned brand of chips being sold.
Conclusion: the only place where I can get chips made by a New Zealand-owned company is across town. The possible exception is the Pam’s brand, which I can get at Miramar New World, a small drive away. Shamefully, my local Kilbirnie supermarket is not patriotic, with not a single domestically owned brand of chips being sold.
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Planters? Interesting-- I think completely of nuts, and am not aware they did chips. Frito-Lay was what I thought was stereotypical American chips, but *shrug* as I have not really traveled abroad I am still learning what exactly is being filtered besides General American accents and Hollywood in general.
I remember Planters chips in Hong Kong, and I think they eventually made it here. They still have the Mr Peanut logo. Frito-Lay I have heard of on my US travels—I have a funny feeling they were sold here for a brief time, but never caught on.
Unfortunately, Hollywood has a lot to do with international impressions of the US. Also, with the cutbacks in old-media news programmes, a lot is being bought in from the Big Three networks there. American software is also quite prevalent, I have noted, to the point where American spellings are infiltrating our language here (much to the dismay of some!).