• macniel@feddit.de
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    It’s hard but not impossible. When you go grocery shopping always look at the back of the product to see if it has the taint.

    Problem is indeed the restaurant as you can’t be sure if they didn’t you nestle products.

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      I can’t help but notice you have disagreed with the comment above you, then gone on to explain that the exception to your disagreement is the exact scenario they described.

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        Except no? Its not “literally impossible” to avoid nestle. You simply have to shop your groceries more mindful.

        But okay, if its utterly impossible to look on the back of the package and or do a quick internet search to see if that label belongs to nestle, yeah its impossible.

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          Joining in because why not. The comment OP never mentioned groceries. They mentioned how it’s impossible to avoid Nestle when eating out/getting take out, which you agreed with.

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            The important thing is, they disagree, can’t we just leave it at that and be angry in peace?

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          Subsidiary companies, basically companies that are owned by another, to my knowledge are not required to display that they’re owned by another company. Or if they do, it’s in EXTREMELY fine lettering.

          A lot of the time, you have to have an encyclopedic knowledge of what brands are nestle brands, or yes, it’s actually impossibly to make a decision.

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        Sure, its pissing against the wind. And I lose out on kitkat and lion (damn i liked that bar) or I need to buy “clones” but I can’t wholeheartedly buy their shit. It may not be much, but atleast i can live with myself.

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          You could order KitKat from the US. Hershey makes it here.

          I wouldn’t recommend it though, Nestle KitKat is much better. It’s a shame Nestle is so evil or else I’d be driving over to Canada to stock up every few weeks.

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          The amount of sugar and palm kernel oil in Nestle chocolate makes me not even enjoy their products if I get them for free. They barely taste like cocoa

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      It’s not always that obvious. Nestle owns many companies and many of those products say nothing about Nestle on them.

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          Thats a searchable list of all products/brands by Nestle? Thats quite helpful!

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        Sure they do own many companies. I just dont think its impossible, as I steer clear of anything nestle. Sometimes I grab something new and sounds interesting like the Vegan products by Gourmet Garden and just putting it quickly back as I saw nestles logo printed on the back.

        It takes a bit of discipline.

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          Lol, no, you don’t understand. Companies (literally millions of them) own many other companies that they never put any logo on or anything. For an outside of Nestle example, check out this list of companies owned by Kroger that you will never find anything labeled by Kroger inside of:

          https://www.kroger.com/i/kroger-family-of-companies

          Also this list may be VERY incomplete because it’s hosted by Kroger and they have no obligation to give the entire truth here.

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            Food 4 Less, Ralph’s, and Jay C Foods all have Kroger brand foods on their shelves. Not sure about the rest as I haven’t shopped at the rest of those stores. Also they are attempting to acquire Albertson’s.

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            I’ve never seen Kroger nor any of that companies. Do they sell in Germany?

            And if the umbrella company is proud of thier products they bought, of course they put their label on it or state it somewhere. Where else would be the point of it? Brand recognition and all.

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              Kroger is a grocery store chain in the US, I suspect they don’t operate in Germany but I might be wrong.

              They basically are or own many different grocery store chains across most of the US.

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          I think you’re missing the point I was making. There’s a lot of Nestlé products that don’t have their logo anywhere on the packaging because it’s instead made by a company Nestlé owns

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          “It takes a bit of discipline.”

          Also, you should work on your tone, speaking like you’re holier than thou is already cringe, but when you’re wrong it just makes you look like a big idiot.

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            Yes it does take a bit of discipline. And no, I dont think I’m holier than thou.

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            I don’t think they were saying it ONLY takes a bit of discipline. To me, the charitable interpretation is, they’re saying that they see something new they want, and see the nestle logo, and the act of denying the want takes discipline.

            You’re both right, of course. It DOES take discipline to always put back the nestle-labeled goods, and there are MANY nestle-subsidiary-owned items that don’t have a nestle logo in sight

            Edit: ok, a bit lower hea def being holier than thou a bit lol