I just can't imagine a logical reason for a 2 year shortage of pasta.
Nor a reason for caring about it, in my case. 🤣
Didn't Ayn Rand once write about this, in her essay "The Virtue of Shellfishness"? Or maybe that was about Hayek's view of oysters, which are probably also part of the Great Food Shortage.
(FRiends, three weeks ago I made a fearless prediction that the next Leftist Crisis would have something to do with food shortage, and voila...)
This is true-
I went to three grocery stores last week and they had NOTHING except the whole wheat bulls!t and specialty pastas made with lentils and chickpeas. I ended up buying food lion store brand lasagna sheets.
Probably in better health today without a Costco sized package of pasta anyway. Stupid thing to be upset about, pasta is easy to make at home and tastes much better than store bought.
The shortages I see at the grocery store does make one shake their heads. Sometimes here on the northwest left coast my city’s only grocer, IGA, can look like a store in a poor area of Venezuela with entire aisles of shelving sparsely stocked. Last week from Friday evening to last Monday morning you could not find a gallon of milk in a 50 mile radius of town. Even though we’re surrounded by dairies.
It almost seems coordinated.
If you really want to know why these shortages are occurring, go to prepping2-0.com and look up the podcasts with “Dan the Food Industry Guy.” Dan, who seeks to remain somewhat anonymous, is an executive with a packaged food producer that you would know. He also has been in the industry for a long time, and understands the supply chains very well. Everything that we’re seeing, right down to cat food shortages, as explained by Dan in these shows.
Two years? At what point does “shortage” morph into “discontinued?”
People can learn how to make their own pasta. Problem solved.
Most be an Italian neighborhood where pasta is an everyday event.
I bought all the pasta up in February ‘20 preparing Covid Armageddon. How long does that stuff last?
Has to be regional. We have bare spots for some kinds of pasta here (Albuquerque, NM), but they go in cycles. The big thing right now in our area is Best Foods/Hellmann's mayonnaise. Coming up on two weeks since they had the standard flavor and size (not light, or olive oil base or huge jars) and yesterday they were completely out of all sizes/versions. The store brand and Kraft Mayo were full, but Best Foods was completely gone.
They were pasta the best by date.
In Cali we don't have as many shortages due to being near the ports but I did notice the shells were emptied out before this past Christmas. I wonder if YouTube watchers have stepped up their game and moved from lasagna to stuffed shells.
I’ve been trying to find Barilla’s pasta, Campanelle, for two years. I was told by the company that they had *temporarily* stopped making it so they could focus on a limited number of pasta shapes because of the shortage. It’s still not back on the shelf.
There is no shortage of that in my local Walmart.
They are an end-cap item at my local store, kind of weird it’s a big issue.
Maybe there's a supply glitch at some random store or other, and there are certainly rising prices for meat, but I don't see an impeding food apocalypse.
Unless the government uses some "crisis" or other to create one on purpose.
The pasta I can’t find in the store, I order online.
I can find colavita mini shells and barilla pastina on amazon.