Thread: Buffalo Mozzarella crisis

Due to the Icelandic shutdown of northern European air traffic, the
Campanians are unable to offload all of their buffalo mozzarella
and some of it may get thrown out:

"Producers of Italy's milky white, prized buffalo
mozzarella, which is highly perishable, pondered their
options."

"In the next couple of days we have to decide," said
Vito Amendolara, head of the farmers lobby Coldiretti's
office in Campania, the region around Naples famed
for the cheese. "We cannot sell buffalo milk as it
is, because it is too fatty and is meant solely for
production of mozzarella. We will either have to throw
away the milk or find alternative markets" by heavily
promoting it locally."

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...YDBfQD9F50PS03

This seems a bit odd to me; Naples is not in the ash zone,
and United's daily nonstop from Rome to Dulles flew on time today.
Perhaps only really high value freight, like pharmaceuticals,
is able to get on the flights that are left.

Steve