I 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.
I would read your rebuttal article.
Why Is There a Bucatini Shortage in America?
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> It's a good point though. Why/how is something unsafe for an American, but safe for an Italian or Spaniard? America has a longstanding tradition of food fortification. Niacin is also used to supplement US diets featuring a corn staple -- corn's niacin is not bioavailable without additional processing traditional to Mesoamerican cultures. Probably more recognized today is iodized salt, which is responsible for perha…
Domestic producers of [all products] in [all countries] have a longstanding tradition of using the apparatus of government to protect their business from competition. These arguments typically take the form of national security, consumer safety and unfair competitive practices. In some cases these arguments are made in good faith. In even rarer cases these arguments are true. But initially it's wise to take them with…
But make sure that salt is made from a source that complies with your countries regulations on salt manufacturing and labeling...
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The sugar tax is pretty simple. Corn grows in north america and sugar cane doesn't.
> Corn grows in north america and sugar cane doesn't. Sugarcane most definitely grows in North America. Florida alone produces hundreds of thousands of tons of raw sugar annually.
I dare OP to drive around outside of Lafayette, LA and roll his window down and tell me sugarcane doesn't grow in America
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Wikipedia says the European Commission says this is an urban legend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CE_marking#China_Export I mean I don't know anything about it, just wanted to point that out. But then this one https://support.ce-check.eu/hc/en-us/articles/360008642600-H... says it's real, I'm confused. Edit: I'm going to go through every single device/cable I have at home and examine the font and the arrangement of t…
Isn't it trademark infringement either way? If you tried this with the apple logo and your business was us based you'd be sued out of existence.
I speculate that this logo is mostly used for "cheap crap" where they stamp any random logo you want.
Also if you sell the "cheap crap" to some country outside of EU, you can still slap the nice CE logo there.
And since when shady Chinese companies care about copyrights anyway.
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Which would make sense in general, wouldn't it? The thing with the rear lights being on.
Depends. Might make sense in countries with polar nights, not so much in the Mediterranean where it just sucks up energy, especially with EVs.
It does seem that the updated regulation allowed new cars to be less safe in the Nordics. It’s an interesting precedent.
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Note that there is the CE symbol (confirmation of Europan standards) and there is also a very simila CE symbol that means "China Export". The second one does not have anything to do with European standards. It is deceptively similar.. guess why
Wikipedia says the European Commission says this is an urban legend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CE_marking#China_Export I mean I don't know anything about it, just wanted to point that out. But then this one https://support.ce-check.eu/hc/en-us/articles/360008642600-H... says it's real, I'm confused. Edit: I'm going to go through every single device/cable I have at home and examine the font and the arrangement of t…
Do you know if there’s an accurate master list of these labels anywhere? I’m sure the customs and border people must have at least a reference copy floating around.
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#267Bucatini is the best pasta shape, though. Comedy always has that grain of truth in it. If you can somehow get past the great bucatini shortage of 2020, make some cacio e pepe with it. Trust me.
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#268Okay. I just bought Bucatini off of Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00YQ7CYWU (only 1 left, blah, blah)). I'm not much of a pasta eater but, damn, that was a fun read...
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Though it's hard to write this well
It's not hard, it just takes a long time, which costs $$$. That's why it's very very unlikely to be sponsored, because no CPG company is going to spend 100k to commission a writer to spend several months working on an art piece. Except maybe Red Bull, but this isn't about Red Bull.
Is that the going rate nowadays for a competent investigative writer? I thought the major conglomerates also commission these ‘art pieces’ at a decent rate.
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I'm really not sure where that citation is coming from. It's a Google web answer but the source has no citation. Wikipedia lists a textbook, rather than anything from NCBI, and I'm too lazy to dig further. A corn torilla or slice of bread in the US typically has 1-2 mg of niacin, and a daily recommendation of around 16mg. 3 oz (85 grams) of "Chicken breast, meat only, grilled" contains 10.3 grams of the stuff[1], and…
> "Chicken breast, meat only, grilled" contains 10.3 grams of [niacin] That's off by a factor of 1000x -- it says 10.3 milligrams.
Apologies for the typo