Barilla Pasta CEO anti-gay remarks

[geloge]

I wonder if I walk close a barilla pack an alarm will start to sound.

 

[xbuzzerx]

I wonder if I walk close a barilla pack an alarm will start to sound.

Pink Alert.

 

[geloge]

^

 

[hylas]

well, i dont buy their brand anyway, but i would definitely stop now if i had been. ill at least help to spread the word.

 

[Corny]

Quite a difference to chick a whatever - an idiot non the less

by the way - response from Bertolli Germany:

 

[SaskGuy]

I don't eat a whole lot of pasta, but I have been known to buy both Barilla and Bertolli.
Well, it's Bertolli from now on! I even have Bertolli olive oil in the cupboard (Nope, I just checked and it's Sobey's house brand, but hey, the previous bottle was Bertolli!).
How much do you bet that sales of Barilla pasta in the bible belt are gonna skyrocket? Anyone in the mood for chicken fried pasta with your possum stew?

http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/bertolli-makes-most-barilla-chairmans-anti-gay-comments-152758

 

[ronboy]

I like Barilla Pasta. Their big US manufacturing plant is located in Avon, NY (20 miles south of Rochester, in Livingston County).
But I also like Ronzoni too, (made by New World Pasta in Harrisburg, PA)

I don't like the comments that Mr. Barilla made.
I will try to buy a competitors product before buying Barilla in the foreseeable future.

I am now getting into bronze die cut pasta, which is made in Italy. Wegmans (and several other gourmet Italian brands) are importing it from Italy.

 

[CowboyBob]

"I would never do (a commercial) with a homosexual family, not for lack of respect but because we don't agree with them."

I don't agree with his bigotry so i will never buy his products.

 

[zoltanspawn]

I like Barilla Pasta. Their big US manufacturing plant is located in Avon, NY (20 miles south of Rochester, in Livingston County).
But I also like Ronzoni too, (made by New World Pasta in Harrisburg, PA)

I don't like the comments that Mr. Barilla made.
I will try to buy a competitors product before buying Barilla in the foreseeable future.

I am now getting into bronze die cut pasta, which is made in Italy. Wegmans (and several other gourmet Italian brands) are importing it from Italy.

Rustichella d'Abruzzo is another good higher-end dried pasta.

 

[johaninsc]

How much do you bet that sales of Barilla pasta in the bible belt are gonna skyrocket? Anyone in the mood for chicken fried pasta with your possum stew?

I can't speak for the whole bible belt, but in the part where I live, in northern Greenville County South Carolina, it wouldn't really make a difference
Mueller's is the favorite brand here

...and we don't have chicken fried pasta or shit eating possums for dinner either

 

[zoltanspawn]

...and we don't have chicken fried pasta or shit eating possums for dinner either

What about them little southern-cross shaped macaronis? Y'eat those, right?

 

[ravenstar]

Quite a difference to chick a whatever - an idiot non the less

by the way - response from Bertolli Germany:

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I saw that picture on Facebook and there were a whole bunch of people being offended by the fact the two "lady" pasta's had waists and a baby and the "men" pasta were effeminate Seriously, people will always find something to bitch about.

Frankly, I'd never heard of the pasta in the OP and don't eat carbs anyway, so it's all a bit of a non issue to me.

 

[ronboy]

I can't speak for the whole bible belt, but in the part where I live, in northern Greenville County South Carolina, it wouldn't really make a difference
Mueller's is the favorite brand here

...and we don't have chicken fried pasta or shit eating possums for dinner either

Sir Ron is not an Italian pasta snob. My mom used to buy Mueller's, and I do too. It's good pasta.

Years ago, there used to be a lot of regional pasta brands. Rochester had two large pasta companies, Prince and Bravo. Prince was a branch factory of the original in Boston (where it is still a big regional brand). Bravo was Rochester owned and operated. We also used to get Gioia Pasta from Buffalo (which later bought out Bravo), and Piscitello's (also from Buffalo). This was long before the tide of Italian brands hit the USA.

 

[Latimer]

As I recall the guys in the Barilla television ads are very hot.

 

[voyager1994]

^I'll eat their guys, but not their pasta

I happen to like their pasta and sauce, but won't buy them anymore.

Spread the news!

 

[johaninsc]

don't expect to see Barilla's version of this any time soon..

but they still make this..

 

[Daximus]

I don't get why some business people can't keep their fucking mouths SHUT. Morons.

 

[bankside]

I have never heard of these brands. I've always been happy with Catelli.

 

[Kulindahr]

I don't get why some business people can't keep their fucking mouths SHUT. Morons.

They don't have alternate internet identities?

 

[star-warrior]

If you're gonna boycott Barilla's pasta, make sure, if you go to MacDonalds, not to order from their Mediterranean pasta range.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/...sta-to-develop-mediterranean-diet-menu-items/

Thursday, May 23, 2013
Fast-food chain will sell pasta salad from Friday in attempt to Italianise menu after deal with Parma-based Barilla

One is an iconic brand of Italian cuisine that has been in the same family for four generations. The other is one of the biggest fast-food chains in the world. They may, as one Italian newspaper remarked on Thursday, be seen by purists as “the devil and holy water”, but McDonald’s and the Parma-based pasta maker Barilla have now joined forces to bring a touch of the Mediterranean diet to the Big Mac and fries.