Bonucci's provocation has a grain of truth; in 2021, consumption of Italian pasta dropped by 25% in the UK

During the celebrations of the 2021 European football championships, Leonardo Bonucci addressed his opponents with the phrase “you have to eat some more pasta”. And in fact, the British are eating less of it than usual in 2021: purchases of Italian pasta have in fact dropped by 25%, mainly due to Brexit. The quantities of Italian pasta purchased in the UK have never been lower in the last five years. This is what emerges from an analysis by Coldiretti based on Istat data for the first three months of the year. However, this is not the only case since only the sales of Italian food products in Great Britain are decreasing, down by 10.5% due to the limitations imposed by Brexit, in contrast to the jump recorded in Made in Italy exports throughout the world with + 19.8% in the first quarter of 2021, according to Coldiretti's analysis of Istat data relating to foreign trade compared to the previous year. Bureaucratic and administrative difficulties linked to the exit of the British ...