America Says Canada Rigged the Price of Its Fries. The Lawsuit Calls It a "Potato Cartel."

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You pull into a drive-thru, order a large fries, and a hot golden sleeve comes through the window. About as American a moment as exists. Except the single most likely origin of that exact product isn't an American farm or factory — it's a company headquartered in a town of ~1,300 people in rural New Brunswick, Canada. That company is McCain Foods. You've eaten their fries a thousand times and never seen the name. Founded in 1957 by two brothers in Florenceville, NB, it grew into the world's largest maker of frozen French fries — 50+ plants, 160+ countries, ~$11.8B in revenue, and one in every four fries eaten ANYWHERE on Earth is a McCain fry. It's also a core supplier to the biggest fast-food chains on the planet. Zoom into the U.S. and it gets sharper: roughly three of every four of America's (frozen) fries come from Canada — McCain plus Cavendish Farms (owned by New Brunswick's Irving family). American imports of frozen potato products have more than DOUBLED in a decade, because U

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