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I don't think anyone needs to import pasta from Italy, is my point.
Anyone who doesn't have the time or the resources to import expensive pasta is probably just using store brand anyway.
I use store brand and it's fine. I think it's more important to know how to prepare pasta than to use fancy imported pasta for bragging rights.
Anyway, I also use the whole grain pasta for health reasons, so you probably don't care how I prepare my pasta. It's beside the point, though. (If anyone does care how I prepare my pasta, I boil it to around 80% of al dente, where it's still inedible/not soft enough, and I let it cook the rest of the way in the sauce, that way it absorbs some of the sauce, getting some of its flavour from the sauce. This is especially important with the whole grain pasta as some will tell you it doesn't taste as good. I prefer the taste, but I like it even more when it's absorbed some sauce. And it's still al dente in my bowl.)
The imported pasta is only expensive because Trump said so!
Don't you understand that the reason they put tariffs on it is that imported Italian pasta was cheaper than American homemade pasta? It's in the freaking post. They are putting tariffs on the cheap Italian pasta to make it more expensive so the more expensive American pasta can outcompete it.
Don't you understand that most of the store brand pasta is actually made in Italy and imported by the store because that's cheaper than to contract an actual American company?
You’re assuming Italian pasta is fancy and expensive. I’m sure some is, but some is just common mass market brands on your grocery shelf. Until this nonsense started I didn’t realize the pasta I sometimes get is from Italy