Newfoundland has a hard bread shortage, but why do they eat it? (cbc.ca)
15 points by empressplay 3 days ago
Simulacra an hour ago
Wow, this is actually interesting, I had not heard of people eating hard attack since the American Civil War. But looking at a map, it doesn't look that difficult to get to, so I'm curious why not just fly it in?
chocochunks 25 minutes ago
Because no one else really eats it or makes it. AFAIK that Purity factory is the only one in Canada making it and outside of Newfoundland it's hard to find on a normal day even in the rest of Atlantic Canada. And when you do, it's the Purity version shipped over. It's very much a Newfoundland food.
charcircuit an hour ago
>Grocery stores across Newfoundland and Labrador have been struggling to keep hard bread in stock since a fire at the Purity factory in March put a crimp in the company’s baking operations.
Is it really that hard to raise the price to keep it in stock?
pjc50 4 minutes ago
You know what's really oversupplied in this subthread? One sentence contrarianism.
(not that I haven't done it myself occasionally, but guys you really are not helping anyone here including yourselves)
close04 an hour ago
Raising the price doesn't increase the supply, it just selects who can access it. Most of the people will still not get it, just for a different reason.
mhluongo 40 minutes ago
A higher margin increases the incentive for people to make more, though.
card_zero 42 minutes ago
That implies that everything with a price is always out of stock.