Are you having a noodle shortage where you live?

Pasta and noodles too.

No problems here yet

Not in Missouri.

Not that I have noticed. I haven’t bought egg noodles recently, but I noticed them on the shelves a few weeks ago. I have purchased pasta recently with no problem.

There’s no organic peanut butter here. We’ve got plenty of oriental style noodles. I haven’t shopped for pasta, etc., in a long time.

I have not noticed this where I live. I’m a receiver in grocery so I am among one of the first to notice shortages in my area.

Apparently it’s real:

https://www.eatthis.com/news-pasta-shortage-again/

https://marketrealist.com/p/why-is-there-a-pasta-shortage/

We bought a pasta maker earlier this year. Fresh pasta is 100% tastier than dried, easy to make, and cheap.

@Pied_Pfeffer Can you make it fresh without cholesterol? I always think of fresh pasta as having egg in it. Dried has no cholesterol.

Nope. I make my own pasta. no flour and egg shortage yet.

There have been warnings in the UK of a pasta shortage due to a bad wheat harvest caused by climate change but there is no lack of pasta on the supermarket shelves.

I was just at the store 20 minutes ago and the noodle choices and amounts were abundant.

I am more concerned about rumors of a coffee shortage coming. I can make my own noodles if I have to, coffee is another matter.

^^Oh gosh. Lol. Coffee would be a catastrophe. That’s up there with toilet paper. Even a rumor of that could cause serious hoarding, and then it’s like a self fulfilling prophecy like so many of the shortages.

Generally, I think people playing the stock market start the rumors. Just like Trump name dropping during the lockdown. Quest, Pfizer, etc. etc. Maybe noodles had hit a slump.

Actually, @JLeslie, if you think about it, the concept of a coffee shortage is not so far fetched. We don’t grow any coffee in the continental US, and the South American economy is very squiffy right now because of Covid. As is a fair amount of the African economy, the pickers and the shippers are having a rough time.

@canidmajor No doubt. I can’t argue with that. I still think if people panic it just makes it worse.

Part of the problem with supply now has to do with with people hoarding. It messes up the timing in the logistics chain. People put out on social media they better shop now for Christmas. A lot of people benefit from that. Retailers, stockholders, even politicians if the “October numbers” show an increase in retail sales. I don’t know if there was an increase, but wouldn’t surprise me.

Squiffy?

I live in a Red county, so not a lot of people here use the ol’ noodle.

No, but I decided to run order some more when I saw this. I already had a stock but, it’s cheap.

Actullay @canidmajor due to climate change they are now growing coffee in California ! ! https://www.kpbs.org/news/midday-edition/2021/01/06/coffee-growing-and-thriving-san-diego-north-county

@Tropical_Willie, first I’ve heard, but so cool! Except for the “because of climate change” part. I am impressed by the determination and ingenuity of those folks!

Thanks for this.

Twenty years ago coffee would have been a “No Go”, call it what you want average temps are up.

I just read that it has to do with a shortage of durum wheat.

We’re not used to food shortages here, but plenty of people are no stranger to them. Something tells me we’ve only just begun to see this kind of change. We still think we can go to a different Safeway or Target and find whatever we want. Maybe when some people see a pinch in their beer and chips supplies, there’ll be a little awakening.

Somehow I guess it still winds up being political.

I was just at the supermarket and they had Ronzoni pasta on an end cap buy one get one free, so I assume there is no shortage.

We haven’t been able to buy Yakisoba lately, so maybe.

@JLeslie Yes, fresh pasta can be made without egg. There are plenty of recipes on the internet for it.

No. So far there is not a shortage of noodles where I live (Grand Prairie, Texas, USA). The only time I see a noodle shortage is around the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays every year.

@King_Galaxius is another newbie! yayyy!

@King_Galaxius, welcome. What kind of dish makes noodles scarce in Texas at holiday time?

Late report: I found five bags of house-label egg noodles at a Nob Hill and snatched them up. So I’m good for now, but I’ll continue to worry about noodles.

Egg noodles are all I was asking about, by the way—not the whole broad category of (eggless) Italian-style pasta. I haven’t seen any problem with spaghetti, linguine, lasagne, penne, rotini, elbow mac, etc.

I just tend to assume that noodles have eggs 7nless they say “eggless” on them. My answer no longer applies, then, I guess, sorry for misunderstanding.
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