Britain Runs out of Pasta as Costs Soar (drum wheat sold for biofuel)

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Pasta lovers were warned yesterday that spaghetti could soon be off the menu as supplies run short.

The crisis has been caused by Italian farmers, who usually grow the durum wheat for 99 per cent of all UK pasta products, now cashing in by instead selling it for biofuel.

This has sparked a worldwide shortage of raw ingredients and sent prices rocketing.

A 400gram tin of spaghetti hoops in tomato sauce could rise from 44p to 88p. A spokesman for Heinz, which sells 140million tins of pasta meals a year, said: "Food commodities are under an awful lot of price pressure because of the rising cost of ingredients across the board."

http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/sunday/2008/02/17/spaghetti-whoops-98487-20321660/

[Greeby]

1. Can we get a better source than the Mirror?

They've spent the past three decades trying to out-Murdoch Murdoch.

Besides, if your taste-buds are so dead you'd eat those tins of spaghetti hoops, you deserve to get ripped off

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2. Oui, oui, only connoisseurs deserve affordable food.

:eyes:

[Greeby]

3. It costs just about the same to buy proper Spaghetti and cook it

Even less if you're buying a budget brand like Tesco Value or something