Does this mean Bucatini shortage is a good indicator of wide-spread issues? Seems like its time for Bucatini index.
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#12I am afraid this article will resurrect shortage even if it ended lately: I never cared about pasta shapes, but now I want bucatini. With 52 hacker news points there goes national stock of bucatini.
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#13tl;dr most pasta brands are pruning lower volume SKUs during the pandemic, and in addition De Cecco is running into some kind of FDA enforcement action against its bucatini because of low iron content.
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#14An interesting example of how a completely uninteresting topic can be made interesting by a good writer.
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#15I am afraid this article will resurrect shortage even if it ended lately: I never cared about pasta shapes, but now I want bucatini. With 52 hacker news points there goes national stock of bucatini.
I really want some now, too. :/
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#16I have never had bucatini, but of course thanks to this article now it's all I want.
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#17I found the premise of this odd. I also live in Brooklyn and have had no issues finding bucatini this year. It's consistently in stock at my nearby whole foods.
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#18I can buy 20 pounds on Amazon for $40. I wish the author had addressed this solution to his perceived shortage. Is this some bad brand? Are all these brands sucky? Did the author forget to google for mail order pasta? Did all these companies in Italy not work out for him?
This journalist needs a journalist friend to help cover his story.
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#19I had a very hard time finding bucatini back in February in the Austin area. I eventually ordered a box off amazon.
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#20> “FDA is quite slow to take action involving standards violations. I’m speculating that a competitor put some heavy pressure on FDA,”
Or the enrichment material supplier that the pasta-maker cut back on. Or pasta-maker switched flour suppliers to a cheaper under-enriched source.