Italy: What would have happened in the First Republic with bread at 10,000 lire per kilo?
Bakery & Bread
Wheat
Italy
Published Sep 29, 2022
Tridge summary
Yesterday, taking up some passages from the report by the analyst of international markets, Sandro Puglisi, we said that, in Europe, from August last year to today, the price of bread has grown by 18%. No one in Sicily writes or talks about the dizzying increase in the price of bread, the most consumed food on our island as in the whole of the South.
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We then went back to hearing Mario Pagliaro, a CNR chemist who has just concluded an electoral campaign as a candidate with Siciliani Liberi, an electoral campaign faced with many ideas and proposals that we also read on his Facebook page of the same Pagliaro. Let's start immediately with a question: how much does a kilo of bread cost in Sicily? Is it true that it is written in the receipts, but no one reads them? “The average price of bread in Sicily, on average, is now close to 5 euros per kilo. The only ones who can sell it for 3.5 euros are the few associated wheat companies that also sell flour. The price is free, and there are large price differences within the vast regional territory ". Excuse me, but if everyone says that the price of wheat has dropped, how does bread cost 10,000 lire per kilo? “Bakers don't buy wheat. They buy flour, yeast and energy. The price of flour has been rising continuously for almost two years. Furthermore, to make bread they consume electricity ...
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