Italian Pasta Is Poised to Disappear From American Grocery Shelves
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Yes they are raising taxes and making everything more expensive for Americans.
Yes they are disrupting the raw materials needed for domestic manufacturing supply chains.
Yes their policies change so frequently and capriciously that it's impossible for American businesses to make medium-to-long term plans.
Yes the president and his family are personally and directly benefiting from these policy decisions. Yes they are directly accepting gifts and payments, including jets, TikTok board seats, and brazenly corrupt contributions to their personal cryptocurrency.
All of that is acceptable, and technically food doesn't need to taste good anyway.
Food doesn’t need to taste good. This is America, not some mediterranean country: https://www.nytimes.com/1975/08/31/archives/food-on-enjoying... (“This American attitude toward food has been formed by two important elements in our national thinking, both functions of our national history. One is the he‐man ideology developed during our pioneering past which holds that it is effete to demand finesse in cookery (or in any other cultural activity, for that matter). The other is our Puritanism. The Puritan nourishes himself (grudgingly), for God has so organized the universe that he must. Possibly he suspects that the chore of eating was imposed on him as a penance for his disgraceful gourmandise in connection with an apple.”).
If you must respond, please address my initial points about all the concessions you’re making about these policies. Also, how do you end up finding these random op eds? Like what do you search to find them?
The US is the biggest good exporter in absolute terms, but it's not very impressive once you account for its size.
For example, The Netherlands exports only 30% less despite having a 95% smaller population and a 99.6% smaller land area.
It made me begin to wonder if they just use it for noodle shaped pasta, or if they've completely replaced all pasta with the name.
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