Countries from which the nuts in my bag of mixed nuts originated

Posted by confusedmel

15 Comments

  1. Truth-or-Peace on

    Interesting that seven ingredients managed to come from a total of twenty-three countries. One suspects that the company isn’t actually sure where the nuts in this particular bag came from—maybe nuts, or at least some types of nuts, are considered a fungible commodity—and so just listed all the places that they *might* have come from.

  2. wikipediareader on

    Absolutely wild when you think about the logistics of it all, the labor of those in the fields who harvest the nuts and those who transport them over oceans and onto railways and highways just to get to a Costco distribution center and, eventually, your home.

  3. I have observed the pistachio industry in the Great Central Valley of California and it is mechanized and efficient. Far cry from the dyed pink Iranian pistachios of my childhood. They dyed them to cover the stains of the rotting husk they were too slow to remove.