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Originally Posted by esquire
Yeah, the packaging is weird but I'm sure it's all the same thing to them, just a bunch of stuff "from America"... clearly they didn't stop to consider the SSP forum implications of that design!
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Exactly. It's the equivalent of marketing a product as "Russian Vodka" in Brazil or Argentina or Australia, when it actually comes from Eastern Ukraine or Belarus. The distinction is too subtle for the target audience anyway.
To Europeans, this wheat comes from the optimal wheatgrowing areas of the Great Interior Plains of North America, first and foremost. "Manitoba" is secondary.
P.S. Interestingly, if I ever ran a sugaring operation on my Northern NH lands (which are quite full of sugar maples; you never know) and sold that product in Japan, it would probably be smart to do the exact opposite of this Manitoba Wheat In Italy, and market it as "Canadian Maple Syrup".