Fair Trade food...

[neotoma]

I have *never* bitten into a banana and gone "Mmmmmm"... until yesterday.

The Fair Trade bananas that I bought at the co-op are so good that I made happy noises. Well, worth the extra cost, then.

I don't have a similar reaction to Fair Trade chocolate, though I do try to buy it because I'd rather not support slavery, so I am fairly surprised.

Has anyone else found another surprisingly good Fair Trade food?

Comments

[jedirita.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, the Fair Trade chocolate I've bought sucked. Big time.

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

What brand was it? I've had good luck with Equal Exchange chocolate bars, and the one Fair Trade bar that Dagobah puts out.

[jedirita.livejournal.com]

To be honest, I dont' remember.

[winter]

I have to admit I've noticed a surprising improvement in Marks & Spencer's tea (Kenyan) since they went Fair Trade. Then again, over here Lipton Yellow Label is considered posh tea...

[murasaki99.livejournal.com]

Some Fair Trade coffee is wonderful, too. Seattle's Best has some of the better examples. Organic, too. :)

[fuchsoid.livejournal.com]

The Fairtrade bananas we get in the UK seem to mostly be from the Windward Islands, while the regular ones seem to be mostly from Dominica. so I wonder if they aren't a different variety. The Faritrade ones are definitely smaller and tastier.

Some Fairtrade tea is excellent, but again I wonder if it isn't the variety; the best is from Sri Lanka.

We also get an organic Fairtrade chocoate called Maya Gold from Green and Black's, which is very good indeed. I don't know if you can get them in the US, but they are well worth trying; dark chocolate flavoured (but not too strongly) with orange and spices, and also available as a spectacularly good hot chocolate mix.

[(Anonymous)]

We can get Green and Black's chocolate in my area, but I don't remember seeing a Fair Trade logo, just the organic one. That said, I haven't been really impressed with G&B, though a friend loves it.