Depending on where you are on this glorious globe of ours:
Gooood morning, Gooood Afternoon, Gooood Evening TNBers! Welcome to The Boss Is On Vacay, Day 1. You know what that means…you are stuck with me! Lucky you! 😂
Side Note to Horace: I found your pants!
You’re welcome!
That one where the Fact Checker goes missing then gets Fact Checked:
Me: A possible clue to where Dale has gone missing all these days?
Me: Wth is bucatini? *Googles bucatini*
Me: Ahh, got it.
Bucatini, also known as perciatelli, are a thick spaghetti-like pasta with a hole running through the center. They are common throughout Lazio, particularly Rome.
Me: He’s in Italy!
So, speaking of bucatini, [yes, we were speaking about bucatini, keep up!] did you know Americans are stupid? Because who else but Americans would cause a bucatini shortage in America?
People published an article December 29, 2020 titled, Why People Are Noticing a Bucatini Shortage Across the U.S.
Yeah, well, I didn’t notice it because I didn’t even know what it was, let alone it was running short, but if any of you did here are reasons why:
After Del Nero investigated more on his own, he reported back to Handler his shocking findings: “Because of the environment, people have been using bucatini as straws, instead of a plastic straw,” he told her.
He explained more: “You can buy them. There are a couple of companies making them. You can have your soda and then eat your straw. It’s like eating your fork or knife. But pasta is not a ready-to-eat product. You have to cook it. So when you use pasta to drink sodas, you’re drinking and eating a not-ready-to-eat product. You put yourself at risk because that product has never been pasteurized or killed. And the only pasta cut affected is bucatini because of the hole.”
After a quick panic over the amount of raw bucatini she has personally eaten — but then being assuring by Del Nero that the risk of death is “probably one in a billion” — Handler moved on with her investigation. She was finally contacted by a spokesperson with the Food and Drug Administration, … finally gave some clarity on the bucatini shortage related to one company, De Cecco.
“On March 30, 2020, De Cecco bucatini was placed on import alert because it was misbranded as it failed to meet the required standard of identity. Specifically, the iron level in De Cecco bucatini was below the designated level as required by the standard of enriched macaroni,” FDA spokesperson Courtney told Handler.
How the FDA could have learned of the low iron level in De Cecco bucatini involves some Sopranos-like drama. The NPA’s chairman Carl Zuanelli told Handler, “It sounds as if someone was not happy with De Cecco’s product coming in and looked at it and saw that it was out of spec. The FDA doesn’t typically go around looking. They’ve got plenty of other things to do.”
People
The things we learn, eh? You come here to learn interesting things!
And, just for the record, I want you to know I dragged you along there because Daniel Dale decided he was going to [probably] Italy. I’m just sayin’, that – *waves hands in air* – all of that, was his fault.
Since Dale is still gone, eating his way through (probably) Italy, we will turn to The Boss’s other resource for Biden’s daily schedule.
Since the schedule tells us he’ll get his morning briefing and then jet off to Chicago, let us just assume he will be in the air at post time and there will not be much in way of tweeting until post-post time later this afternoon so we will likely just pick it up tomorrow.
To fill in the gap we will jump back to finish out his Wednesday’s Twitter timeline, because he tweeted 5 more times.
Quick jump over to check out The White House on Twitter timeline:
FYI: Friday is October’s Job’s Report. For a warmup, Barron’s tells us 4 Things to Look for in Friday’s Jobs Report.
Blue-collar workers could be in for more good news when the Labor Department reports non-farm payrolls for September on Friday.
Hiring is seen picking up and the unemployment rate falling: Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal expect an addition of 485,000 jobs to the U.S. workforce last month, up from 235,000 in August. And the U.S. unemployment rate is seen falling to 5.1% from 5.2%.
“Labor supply constraints also appear to have weighed on payrolls since the start of the re-open and we suspect these constraints could continue even as schools have now re-opened and extra unemployment benefits have expired,” according to an Oct. 1 report. “Ongoing gains in the labor market and a strong performance in the broad economy may put some additional mild upward pressure on wage growth.”
Here are four things to watch in the report.
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Barron’s
Checking in with @BLS_gov, if anyone is interested while waiting for Friday’s report you can check out their projections for decade 3 of the 21st century to keep you busy.
Happy Thursday. See you tomorrow!
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