Cento is allegedly selling counterfeit San Marzanos.
Half-price shelf-watcher bros, we eatin good this month
Tomato mafia doesn't mess around
>>22006418>2010so they got busted 16 years ago in italy and then just kept doing the same thing everywhere else? why would they do that? isnt that risky?
>>22006433It is risky, but was probably profitable as hell since I'd bet about 0% of Americans are aware of the Italian Tomato Consortium or that Cento was ejected from it over a decade ago. But yeah, they're probably fucked now that the charade is over.
>>22006418But how do they taste???
>>22006418more like SANS Marzanos amirite
>>22006418i was about to crack open a can right now. mine says it's certified by a third party, not the Consortium. so maybe the narrative that ONLY the Consortium can certify is false. if so, then it doesnt seem like they are advertising falsely at all. my can also doesnt have D.O.P anywhere on the label.
>>22006424I will not buy grog.
>>22006418>criminal fraud
It's pretty much legal to put whatever you want on labels in 'merica, that's why we have "chablis" from california (which is actually sweet zinfandel) You get screamed at by retards if you suggest respecting PDO/DOP/etc status because on some level the jingoes feel deeply inferior and don't expect that america could make a quality product that's why they're always overcompensating with their GAWWWD BLESS UHMMEERRRICAAAAAAAA, people who actually believe in this country are basically keeping their mouths shut because basic decency is "woke" nowLike they're scream about muh judgment of paris but they can't even name a good american wine because actually wine is putting on airs or some shitRightoids are such a cancer it's incredible really
Nobody with a fucking brain reads a label and thinks its 100% true.
Everybody has known this for decades. Olive oil is just as bad. You think it was a coincidence seeing truckloads of tomatoes going INTO the region of Italy where San Marzanos are grown? They don't even try to hide it.
>>22006522This is why I exclusively use bacon fat, butter from local farm and tallow from the same farm as my cooking fats. Don't wanna pay 30 dollars for some imported avocado or olive oil when I can't really even trust the back label.
>>22006418Don’t care, still using on my pizzas
>>22006418Doesn’t surprise me, Cento’s hq is in an awful area of New Jersey
>>22006418Well this one is easy. It says San Marzano in the Can and doesn't contain that product. Sounds like a fault of the regulator
>>22006623That's a good looking 'za, friend.
>>22006439Like tomatoes.I'm an Italian, born and raised in Naples, living in the US. I but Hunts here. S Marzano is indeed better but incrementally so. The higher price is so far beyond the point of diminishing returns that it makes little financial sense to buy them in the US. I specifically do not buy Cento because they're $3.49/can while Hunts is a mere 83ish cents when on sale (12 cans for $10).>>22007044It could say "style" in small print somewhere. There's are these tomatoes I buy at Acme that are SAN MARZANO tomatoes, in large, bold print on the clamshell with "style" in microscopic lettering between "Marzano" and "tomato".I think they're imported from the Caribbean lmao
>>22007075The Carribbean hahahaha. How is that legal, no company could argue these things aren't done to trick customers in very misleading ways. The government doesn't care
>>22007080I meant the fresh "San Marzano style" ones I buy are from the Caribbean. I'm pretty sure Cento are indeed from Italy.
>>22006451Only the consorzio (the producers, controlled by the Italian state) can certify. Everything is labelled, measured and registered from the seeds to the warehouses and canning factories. There's an entire branch of the army that does nothing but hunt counterfeit material as these products are the main target for money laundering by organized crime (worth 120 billion Eurobux annually for Italy alone). All they have to do is plant some tomatoes and pay a retard to watch over them. the fine and prison sentence are for the retard of course.Cento claims it's certified by bio-agricert, the European bio-label institution; that's false. 2 Italian companies that sell tomatoes to Cento are. Cento has been receiving cease and desist letters since 2013 and refuses to do anything. What Cento does with these tomatoes is anyone's guess. They're sold on the US market so it's an issue for the USDA and US consumers. I wouldn't touch that shit. It stinks of crime. The fact that they're also being sued for lead in their tomatoes is absolutely no surprise to me: https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/prop65/notices/2025-05053.pdf>>22006522Lidl and Aldi sell everywhere. Not everybody wants good food.
>>22007140Prop 65 is such a joke. All coffee should carry a p65 warning, because it has at least two substances above thresholds (caffeic acid, acrylamide). But it just… doesn’t! It’s exempt or because they just feel like it. They had to make an entire page justifying that ACTUALLY coffee is fine don’t worry about it. https://www.p65warnings.ca.gov/fact-sheets/coffee-and-proposition-65-frequently-asked-questions>but it’s says it doesn’t pose any risks!And that’s the problem with p65. They are right, the levels of these compounds in coffee does NOT pose a meaningful risk. But the only way to make coffee exempt is to completely ignore the standards they set forth for other products. If you have to make common sense exceptions to your standards, then at some point you should realize that the standards are complete garbage. It’s California, so they’re incapable of simple realizations like this.
>>22007083>"San Marzano style"This is how they get you. They copy the brand but change the color barely. In theory it's counterfeit, but idk if it's even illegal by American standards. "San Marzano Style" isn't "San Marzano". America really needs some sort of standard where we aren't buying fake shit over and over. I mean the only oil I trust anymore is Chosen.
>>22008188And Chosen will soon be bought out by some equity firm and start mixing their shit with conola oil. Price won't change, but by the time people realize they will have made so much profit it won't matter if the company dies.
>>22006467Sounds like you have a lot of deep seated insecurities. Maybe try making something of your life instead of setting up a bunch of invisible enemies in your head making your life bad.
>>22006467I don't drink, but I thought California was known for good wine.
>>22006418the price doesn't lie anymore, margins went up significantly for food, so you get what you pay for has never been more true for what you buy in the supermarket or restaurant, if it's cheap it's probably watered down or fake or using a substitute for the primary ingredient
>>22008551They have some of the best wines in the world and some of the worst. With that much sheer production, there is a huge spectrum of quality. If all someone ever drank was cheap mass produced wine, they would probably assume it sucks.
>>22006418So are they san marzano tomatos or not? This just reads like they aren't certified by that tomato mafia, but as an end customer I dont care if they are certified by a bunch of fat retards who want to extort businesses for a paycheck.
