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In reply to the discussion: pasta company Barilla shocked by global backlash, trying to make amends [View all]LibertyLover
(4,788 posts)70. We stopped buying Barilla
immediately after their Chairman's comments came to light. I was brought up eating Ronzoni and that's what we'll get from now on. And after reading about how one of Italy's governmental ministers, who was born in Africa but immigrated to Italy and is married to an Italian, has been treated (bananas thrown at her, etc.), "insular" doesn't quite explain Italy. Now bigoted and backward do come a little closer to describing it as far as I'm concerned.
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Liberal_in_LA
Nov 2013
OP
Maybe they could try giving away lots of boxes of rainbow colored pasta... n/t
PoliticAverse
Nov 2013
#1
Kind of like the tearful Jimmy Swaggart "I'm so sorry I got caught" display! n/t
brewens
Nov 2013
#16
You're absolutely right. The week that he said that crap we had decided on pasta and
winterpark
Nov 2013
#26
Mental note to me. Never buy from these fuckers again. They don't give a damn about LGBT. Also,
RKP5637
Nov 2013
#52
Being hit in the wallet is the only pain these people feel. But they feel it viscerally like a kick
Ed Suspicious
Nov 2013
#4
Their section of the shelf in the Safeway barely had any holes in it this weekend
Starry Messenger
Nov 2013
#5
Same here. Not much difference in taste with commercial pasta and Barilla was usually the cheapest.
adirondacker
Nov 2013
#7
We love Creamette brand. Not sure about their politics but I like it better than Barilla.
Ed Suspicious
Nov 2013
#36
Oh, the poor homophobic bigots. We hope they sink outta sight. They don't give a
RKP5637
Nov 2013
#54
...Used to buy Barilla... That was clearly a mistake that need not be repeated. n/t
xocet
Nov 2013
#13
"Italy is a very insular country, and in cities like Parma it's even more so..."
rocktivity
Nov 2013
#14
Yes, "We're a bunch of inbred country fucks" isn't exactly a visit to the morality carwash
hatrack
Nov 2013
#24
"We'd heard rumors about this thing called the Worldwide Web, but we'd thought it was mythological..
Arugula Latte
Nov 2013
#42
Perhaps, if you are in commerce, you should just STFU about your personal beliefs
SoCalDem
Nov 2013
#23
Wasn't feeling well or paying attention at the store and almost picked up a box.
woodsprite
Nov 2013
#35
Saw a pile of that shit on sale in my grocery store at discount prices....they cannot give it away.
MADem
Nov 2013
#38
I still don't buy nestle products, barilla is in that same "just say no" category for me now
Coexist
Nov 2013
#58
Amazing how a whack to the pocketbook changes a public tune. Shame it does not change the private
appleannie1
Nov 2013
#79