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COMMENTS: Let Them Eat Cake
A pasta strike in Italy--for correspondent Nick Watt (subscription required), covering the consumer protest against the high cost of wheat for ABC's closer, was as easy as pie. "When the price of the manna of the masses started climbing, consumer groups said 'Basta!'" Watt exclaimed. "I will eat potatoes," one woman told him as she joined in the protest. Sitting in a Roman cafe, glass of red wine at his right hand, bowl of not-yet-eaten pasta steaming temptingly under his nose, Watt found the strike unimaginable: "It is like asking the French to go a day without garlic or the Russians to lay off the vodka!"
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