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This... is just De Cecco piggy-backing on the buzz from the original article to do some self-promotion, isn't it? Q: "Can you speculate on who reported your pr

This... is just De Cecco piggy-backing on the buzz from the original article to do some self-promotion, isn't it? Q: "Can you speculate on who reported your product to the regulators?" A: "De Cecco is committed to providing consumers with the highest quality of pasta product. We do not wish to speculate on this topic." Q: "Why was your pasta deficient in iron?" A: "De Cecco is committed to providing consumers with the highest quality of pasta product. We do not know." Q: "How soon can we expect to see your pasta in stock again?" A: "De Cecco is committed to providing consumers with the highest quality of pasta product. Some time in the future! We look forward to seeing you in the kitchen!"

kome 6y ago
"Q: "Why was your pasta deficient in iron?" To be fair they answered to that and it was quite interesting, it's just some American (and Israeli, and Tanzanian) idiosyncrasy. In other markets they cannot even sell modified pasta.
- legerdemain 6y ago
  Here's the actual answer from the interview: "To be honest, I don’t know. [...] It’s a really immaterial divergence compared to the metrics, the range. [...] I don’t have any facts to substantiate that, but to your question, why we had this problem with bucatini, I think it’s the shape — but we don’t know."
  - kome 6y ago
    But also: Why wouldn’t you be able to sell that in Italy or elsewhere? GC: The short answer is that the vitamin-enriched pasta can be sold only in the U.S. market and some other countries like Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Israel, etc., as far as I know. As to the iron-deficient bucatini, we concluded it was economically less burdensome to destroy the items here in the U.S.
jfengel 6y ago
I read that as the reporter repeatedly asking the same question in hopes of getting something exciting, and the rep repeatedly giving the same non-answer because he didn't know the real answer. It's not so much "piggy-backing on the buzz" as "my job is to say positive things about the product, which I will do in every sentence, but I have no more information to give you".

kome 6y ago

"Q: "Why was your pasta deficient in iron?" To be fair they answered to that and it was quite interesting, it's just some American (and Israeli, and Tanzanian) idiosyncrasy. In other markets they cannot even sell modified pasta.

legerdemain 6y ago
Here's the actual answer from the interview: "To be honest, I don’t know. [...] It’s a really immaterial divergence compared to the metrics, the range. [...] I don’t have any facts to substantiate that, but to your question, why we had this problem with bucatini, I think it’s the shape — but we don’t know."
- kome 6y ago
  But also: Why wouldn’t you be able to sell that in Italy or elsewhere? GC: The short answer is that the vitamin-enriched pasta can be sold only in the U.S. market and some other countries like Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Israel, etc., as far as I know. As to the iron-deficient bucatini, we concluded it was economically less burdensome to destroy the items here in the U.S.

jfengel 6y ago

I read that as the reporter repeatedly asking the same question in hopes of getting something exciting, and the rep repeatedly giving the same non-answer because he didn't know the real answer. It's not so much "piggy-backing on the buzz" as "my job is to say positive things about the product, which I will do in every sentence, but I have no more information to give you".