We really have to stop selling our businesses to Americans.
Edit: What a great opportunity to build a homegrown pickle business.
this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2025
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Individual business owners are free to pursue their own interests.
But so are consumers.
If a Canadian brand sells itself to the US, Canadians should abandon it. If that keeps happening, US companies will stop poaching Canadian companies.
If we had started this process sooner, HBC would still be in business.
Nah... HBC would've died anyway. They just didn't have any vision.
Easy to say until an American writes you a huge ~~cheque~~ check.
That hurt my soul
I am just happy to learn that Bick’s is no longer Canadian.
They lost my business completely with the threat that they would buy fewer Canadian cucumbers and lids from Canada. They sell only in Canada. Canadians will eat just as many pickles, just from other companies, and those companies will buy just as many cucumbers from Canadian farmers as Bick’s did.
That a brand that sells only in Canada would talk this way is atrocious.
Screw them completely. Never buying a jar of Bick’s again.
I am not even truly Canadian first (though I always have been a little). For me, what really matters now is USA last.
I said it on Mastodon already: there are so many better choices out there. Incl. Canadian like Putters, Mike & Steve’s and Brine Co. My fav is German called Knax from. Hengstenberg. Luckily our local coop (Calgary) has huge jars what are quite reasonably priced for an import.
Check local farms and farmers markets as well. We make and sell loads of Dills and other pickled cukes, garlic scapes, beans, carrots, beets and asparagus out of our little farm stand at the end of the driveway. Some people tell us our Dills are "gourmet" compared to store pickles. They're cheaper than store bought as well. Pretty proud of all that honestly.
Great tip. Lots of good local stuff out there!!
Brine Co. pickles are so damn good. My wife and I love the sourness.
Thanks, I'll be on the lookout for some of these.
I’m in a bit of pickle now 😉 I always thought Bick’s was Canadian and just read it was previously until it was sold to an American company 😡
I always thought Bick’s was Canadian
It originally was.
Then a wealthy american business came along and took them over.
If you grew up in Scarborough, you would remember the large wood storage casks along the LRT line when it opened.
Haha me too!
Let us fight this war together though :)
I'm happy to see a lot of suggestions in this thread and I look forward to trying them out.
Moshe's full sour are spectacular. No sugar. Have one with a loaf of bread, pure bliss.