Tortellini Tariffs Hit The Havens

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Pastificio, the city's pastificios. Never heard that before my life
boiling over as a result of a one hundred and
seven percent tariff on Italian imports pasta, which I like
to call it macaroni. But I did get schooled in
that this year by someone in the know, So I

(00:22):
don't like. I don't like the word pasta. I call
it macaroni. But who was it that we had on
She's like your daughter's right one Worcester Square importer saying
that we're looking at doubling the price three dollars to
six dollars. New Haven Independent dot Org, Italian importer. These
tariffs are impostable. I'm offended by that. I'm offended by

(00:46):
the impostable corny. A lot of places I love my
man from Vinnie's importing is quoted in here, and that's
where I go. That's where I go on Thursdays to
grab my at the thin sliced pork. I go for
the pork cutlets. And there's just nothing better, truly, truly,
nothing better and great great. I hate even saying it.

(01:07):
Whenever I give Vinnie's Love on the air, I regret
it because I want it to be my own best
kept little secret, although it is, I mean, everybody knows.
Prices are so good, dude, it really makes you question
what you're doing when you go to like a you know,
a big grosser, When what I can get for twenty
dollars at Vinnie's Importing Feature for a week unbelievable. He's

(01:33):
quoted as saying, I've had to raise prices on my customers,
and my customers are right next door Adriana's, all the restaurants,
Adriana's Encore, you know, Goodfellows, Consiglio's, Porta Fino, and fifty
other restaurants throughout southern Connecticut. Local importers were at Vinnie's

(01:54):
Italia Importing Company the other day with the lauro Oh yeah,
Rosa there when she wants to be deloro norhere to
be found when it's it's potentially like how far are
you willing to go for your heritage? And at the
very least, can you just say I'm sorry, I got

(02:15):
a side with don't just disappear? That is my struggle.
And they're saying that it's a bipartisan Italian American Congressional
delegation they've got sending a letter urging the administration to
pause this proposed tariff that would hammer Italian imports. Aposta

(02:37):
makers affected include Gorilla. I mean, it's one of my favorites.
I of it all the time, but I guarantee you
one guy stopped down at stuff of Us one year
just by the way I was pronouncing sfoli adel, but
I think I was still saying it's via deel that
I don't know. He got me all confused, Lamolessana Garoffalo,
and I'm a man from over at Vinnice. He's like, look,

(02:59):
whether it's three dollars or six dollars, families still got
to use it for dinner. But the tariffs will continue
to push prices higher, and we're losing money if we don't.
I don't like seeing vennies having to raise prices