American produce is disappearing from supermarket shelves, replaced by imports from Mexico, China, Australia, and elsewhere. The speaker traces specific items like apples and berries now sourced overseas, noting these foreign sources offer better quality and lower prices. A trade shift framed as retaliation for U.S. actions.
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Americans, Canadians would like to talk to you about your lettuce, which we ate a lot of because we didn't really grow much out here, especially in winter. Same with your bananas and oranges. And then you threatened to annex us, and in the last 2 months, entire industries have launched. Our lettuce comes from Alberta now. These salad kits used to be from you guys, now they're from here. All our cherry tomatoes used to come from California, now they come from here. Grapefruit from Mexico, pears from Australia, oranges from China, bananas from Mexico, peppers from here, Asia, Costa Rica, Chile, cheese from Italy and Quebec, cereal from Germany. Are you getting this yet? Product by product, fruit by fruit, we are erasing America from our stores, and we're not going back because it turns out this new stuff is better quality and sometimes cheaper. But anyway, hey, how are those egg prices doing? It's a very simple word: groceries.