Italians won’t eat ‘smooth’ pasta. Westerners won’t eat Chinese food. Coronavirus panic spreads to culinary preferences

With global panic buying

With global panic buying in full swing, Italians have set up a fanpage to defend the one item still not flying off shelves: ‘Smooth’ pasta. Meanwhile, panicked Westerners are snubbing Chinese food — but pizza is still on the menu.

Desperate times call for desperate measures, but in Italy the coronavirus pandemic has seemingly not been enough to force people to eat ‘penne lisce’ — a smooth variety of pasta without ridges which does not hold onto the sauce as well.

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