Ashley Chapman, chief operating officer at Ontario-headquartered Chapman’s Ice Cream, said in a statement circulating on social media that the family decided to take that measure for the rest of the year to maintain their prices.
Chapman said they wanted to do their part to support Canadians as U.S. President Donald Trump continues to threaten economic annexation, which Chapman called the “greatest threat to our sovereignty” since the Second World War.
(See also !buycanadian@lemmy.ca )
What percentage of the cost of ice cream comes from US sources? Ice cream base is cream/milk egg and sugar. Chocolate doesn’t grow in the US, nor does vanilla. Maybe some nuts and fruits would come from the States. Anything else would be chemical stuff like artificial flavours, emulsifiers, stabilizers and preservatives. Packaging?
Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for what Chapman’s is doing but I wonder how much is symbolic and what it actually means to the price of a tub of ice cream.
Maybe it’s mostly to remind us that they are Canadians, which is fine by me cause I had no idea.
Virtually all ice cream sold in Canada is made in Canada because of the Milk Marketing Board. The same goes for virtually all dairy products.
Icecream use a lot of stabilizers and other chemical products that are not always easy to get (my wife is a pastry chef and works a lot with icecreams, and was always frustrated because some really good chemicals couldn’t be found on Rio de Janeiro and we’re only imported to São Paulo)
