Posted on 06/12/2023 4:06:41 PM PDT by nickcarraway
When it comes to skyrocketing pasta prices, Italians are crying: Basta! They have had enough after the cost of the staple of every Italian table soared by twice the rate of inflation. One consumer advocate group is calling for a weeklong national pasta strike starting June 22 after the Rome government held a crisis meeting last month and decided not to intervene on prices.
“The macaroni strike is to see if keeping pasta on the shelves will bring down the prices, in the great Anglo-Saxon tradition of boycotting goods,” said Furio Truzzi, president of the group, Assoutenti. “The price of pasta is absolutely out of proportion with production costs.”
SNIP
Feeling the pressure, some governments in Europe have capped prices on staples or pushed for agreements with grocery stores to bring down costs, something that’s popular with the public but can actually make food prices worse.
(Excerpt) Read more at masslive.com ...
bugs....you will eat them!
I would suspect, the average Italian already knows how to make their own pasta if they really wanted to, but that takes time and effort. Modern folks don’t usually want to take time and craft their meals from scratch.
Pasta is very easy to make at home, and cheap.
But the best value is a large can of Beefareeno from the Price Club.
Sooo...why?
Yeah you can make your own but flour is way up too.
My Grandmother made her own pasta back in the 60’s, pre-pasta machine days. Took all day and I usually helped.
She loved making it and she was Croatian!
And eat what instead, ... potatoes?
Uhmmm....Italians make their own pasta from wheat flour. Like normal people do before food leviathan corporations stated doing it as a convenience.
The best family days my kids experienced growing up were our hand made ravioli days. So much fun!
As Barack Obama once said, “Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f... things up.”
Looks like this is turning into a real strain.
Penne for your thoughts?
It’s a combination of covid lockdowns and Joe’s refusal to cut spending. I assume all the nations in the West are in the same boat, and they all have massive welfare states.
Yeah, right. And Texans will boycott bacon.
What a nice little nugget there at the end. The Europeans always road test the very worst ideas, then the left advocates them here, even though they failed there. I’m sure their effort at price controls is going to work out swell
Fact: Pasta manufacturing is a labor intensive process requiring lots of machinery.
Much less expensive buying flour and making pizza.
“”Uhmmm....Italians make their own pasta from wheat flour.”
“Did they buy their wheat flour from Ukraine?”
[WIKI] “The cultivation of durum generates greater yield than other wheats in areas of low precipitation (3–5 dm). Good yields can be obtained by irrigation, but this is rarely done. In the first half of the 20th century, the crop was widely grown in Russia.
I don’t know about you, but I’m getting shell shocked over these pasta threads. I’m pulling out my angel hair.
There’s always polenta
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.