COVID-19 pandemic causes spike in pasta sales
Some of the world's best pasta wheat actually comes from wheat grown in the desert southwest, including Italy's famous pasta. Known for its extended shelf life pasta is a staple of panic buying, because of the Coronavirus pandemic the National Pasta Association estimates sales increased by 18% across the U.S. Arizona farmers are planning on planting double the amount of Desert Durum wheat seeds next season as pasta prices are estimated to increase.
Carb loading has taken on a whole new level during the pandemic.
An Aldi customer went on a pasta spree when he reportedly stockpiled dozens of packages of dried noodles ahead of England’s second lockdown Thursday, Britain’s Evening Standard reported.
A UK man was spotted stocking up on pasta amid the second UK lockdown. (iStock).
Photos show the unidentified carb-ivore unloading a mountain of packaged pasta on Aldi’s supermarket checkout conveyer belt while onlookers gawked at empty supermarket shelves.
“Some people getting greedy in Aldi,” Stuart Darben captioned the photos on his Facebook of the pasta apocalypse, which curiously did not include any jarred sauce or other ingredients to make a fresh one.
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Retailers have imposed limits on popular items from toilet paper to hand sanitizer and frozen foods to keep consumers from over-buying and depleting inventories during lockdowns. However, the man didn’t appear to get reprimanded for the pasta haul. The Evening Standard reported, however, that Aldi is mandating that shoppers only buy “what they need.”
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