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To: elmatador who wrote (100127)4/18/2013 2:51:13 PM
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Price squeeze was spilling ketchup in Dilmagrad. CB finally forced to act when Sao Paulo restaurants chopped tomatoes off the menu...

Brazil inflation: Surging tomato prices create political headache
bbc.co.uk

Sao Paulo's famous Nello's restaurant was the first to grab headlines with the decision to drop tomatoes from the menu, a move announced on its Facebook page.

"We did this to raise people's awareness," manager Augusto Mello told the BBC.

"We've always paid around two reais (66p/$1) per kilo of fresh tomatoes. But prices have recently soared, and we were paying seven reais per kilo, which is too much, especially for a restaurant like ours, that needs to buy one tonne every month,"
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