Astro Hacker News - Newfoundland has a hard bread shortage, but why do they eat it?

rob74 |next [-]

The article gives an interesting overview of the history of hard bread, but doesn't mention how Newfoundlanders eat it today. In a fish soup? With tea? Pure? Or all of the above?

bregma |next |previous [-]

Without fish and brewis Newfoundland is just... a big rock.

Simulacra |next |previous [-]

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 |root |parent [-]

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 |previous [-]

>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?

inigyou |root |parent |next [-]

How does that solve the problem?

I love how in economics, a shortage can be solved by increasing the price instead of by increasing the quantity. It really makes you understand that the field of economics uses stupid definitions of words.

close04 |root |parent |next |previous [-]

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 |root |parent |next [-]

A higher margin increases the incentive for people to make more, though.

inigyou |root |parent [-]

Would you make a hard bread factory if the price was higher? How high?

card_zero |root |parent |previous [-]

That implies that everything with a price is always out of stock.

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bluecheese452 |root |parent |next |previous [-]

It implies no such thing.

card_zero |root |parent [-]

The presence of a price "selects who can access it", hence there's not enough stock to give it away for free. (Sometimes deliberately.)

watwut |root |parent [-]

Wut? That makes no sense.

squigz |root |parent |previous [-]

No, it implies that everything with a price and a supply issue will likely still face that supply issue even with a higher price.

card_zero |root |parent [-]

Everything with a price has a supply issue.

squigz |root |parent [-]

No, it doesn't.

card_zero |root |parent [-]

Oh, OK.

squigz |root |parent [-]

I'm really glad we sorted this out.

pjc50 |root |parent |previous [-]

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)