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sauteedmushroomz t1_jdyxnsx wrote

this might be a dumb question, but how and why would they ship it all the way the Netherlands? was the carton itself the thing made in the Netherlands? Iā€™m not thinking straight Iā€™m high lol

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FyuckerFjord t1_jdzowck wrote

They only ship the cow because it gives more milk per milking thanks to the conversion into the metric system. They avoid re-conversion loss on the way back to the States because the milk is frozen.

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walterbernardjr t1_jdzl4ah wrote

Unilever is a Dutch company

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thisoneisnotasbad t1_jdzm619 wrote

Unilever is a British company actually.

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walterbernardjr t1_jdzs2p5 wrote

Good point, I knew it had some Dutch origins so I had to look it up:

Unilever was founded on 2 September 1929, by the merger of the British soapmaker Lever Brothers and the Dutch margarine producer Margarine Unie

I think the OTC stock is the one traded on the Dutch exchange which is why I thought it was Dutch.

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Room07 t1_je0a17d wrote

It is both actually.

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thisoneisnotasbad t1_je0oe5s wrote

No, in 2020 it adopted a fully British.

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Room07 t1_je0rpnv wrote

I guess it can be considered a UK company now but it's both a dutch and British company in terms of roots and origin. It's still considered both globally even though it's based on London. If I move to Europe in 2020 I'm not European. šŸ˜‰

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CharZero t1_je0d7e4 wrote

I am not at all high and I had the same question. Since no one actually answered I looked it up. It can make financial sense because it is shipped in such volume. The actual shipping is in cargo containers that have freezer or refrigeration equipment, and can keep products frozen or cold on ships, trains, and trucks. The single carton of ice cream from Europe bought near the US factory could possibly be explained by supply chain stuff or how they have decided to split flavors for more efficient manufacturing. It might be more efficient in the long run to manufacture 10 flavors in this plant and 5 flavors in that plant and ship them where they need to go rather than all 15 flavors in each plant.

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FyuckerFjord t1_je2u5yg wrote

Hey! Whaddya mean "no one actually answered" the question?! :*(

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CharZero t1_je39yqi wrote

I sincerely enjoyed your answer. Factoring in conversion loss was a nice touch! But it is not, technically, correct. I do wonder if any of the components of the ice cream were shipped from Vermont to the Netherlands first, though.

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