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Today is Part 3 of Myka's Reed of the Week.

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they are about what the whole is going on,

the very real, totally bizarre Bukitini shortage of 2020,

an investigation by Rachel handler at grubstreet.com.

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Part 3. The historic pasta beef and resolution, sort of.

As I waited impatiently for the FDA's FOIA reply, I got another call from Carl from the NPA, the National

Pasta Association, who blew my mind with a tale that sounded so Cohen Brothersy, I could not believe it.

The reason behind Dekeco's fall from FDA's grace, he said, could potentially be traced

all the way back to the early 1900s and the beginning of what was once called the National Association of

Macaroni and Noodle Manufacturers of America. That was a mouthful.

Around World War II, Carl explained, the established noodle industry, henceforth referred to as big pasta, was upset by the introduction of Neeson's ramen noodles into the country, which were completely

out of spec with what the United States then recognized as noodles, specifically because

the ramen was being sold at a lower price and with what

Carl called lower standards of nutrition. They were really pressed, said Carl. That's when the standards of identity were created. Big pasta

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