crossing border with food
Heading to the states for a couple weeks and will be crossing at Niagara Falls. Not sure which crossing yet, but will pick the one with the shortest wait. What food can we take? At this point we ar...
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free radical wrote:VE3ESN wrote:
On a previous trip to the US, we had some Canadian vegetables with us and were told to move over to a building where they performed an "agricultural inspection". Some of our stuff was confiscated. :( The inspector said they were looking for insects.
So on the last trip to the US, we decided to take no food at all (except for some gluten-free US-made bread since DW has celiac disease). The border crossing was rapid and smooth. For our first stop, we found an Aldi store and stocked up on dairy, canned goods, and snacks. (Too bad Aldi isn't in Canada!)
This may sound a bit extreme, but the hassle of an agricultural inspection just isn't worth it, in our humble opinion.
Insects?
Thats weird,what insects are in Canada that arent in US already?
None that we're aware of!! We were surprised and rather annoyed at the hour-long "inspection" and confiscation of perfectly good veggies
