Come on Sobeys, I want results! I didn’t give away my beloved island grocery store for this kind of inefficiency!

What? My standards are too high?

… Maybe. That’s not the point, though.

Thrifty Foods’ brown rice is just a slight be over the sketchiness line, apparently. I called them last night to ask them if it was gluten free and they couldn’t answer me right away (first hint). This morning, I woke up to this e-mail from Toronto:

Hello Claire. 

Please see the response below from our supplier of Thrifty Rice. 

Technically, Rice is gluten free. 

However, we do have some wheat based product inventory at the warehouse in Toronto.

Although highly unlikely, there is the possibility of contact between the non Gluten Rice products and other wheat based products.

So, although you can claim that the rice product itself is gluten free, the manufacturing and warehousing facility does handle some other products with Gluten content and I would think a reference would need to be made to this fact.

Claire I hope this answers your question and please email me if you need any additional information.

Thanks, 

Lee Ann Jessop
Director, Private Label Brands
Thrifty Foods
6649 Butler Crescent
Saanichton, BC V8M 1Z7
Phone: 250-483-1775
Fax: 250-483-1695

So sad. I luckily didn’t eat any brown rice last night even though it was coconut and smelled delicious. That one per cent chance is just not worth it, especially in mid-November.

This morning, I’m finishing my discussion part of my thesis. That means that I will have a synopsis of results and insights done by 2:30 this afternoon.

Or else…