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Nestle canned pumpkin pie filling may run short for holidays

2009-11-23 04:34:38 (GMT) (Caymanmama.com - Food News)

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New Orleans, Louisiana (CaymanMama.com) — What is Thanksgiving without a freshly carved turkey and some sweet pumpkin pie for dessert? For many that sweet tooth for pumpkin pie may have to wait for next year.

Nestle — the seller of mostly all the canned pumpkin in the U.S. with 80 to 90 percent of the market — says less than desirable weather and heavy rains hurt its harvest, causing a sad shortage of its Libby’s pumpkin pie products which may last throughout the holiday season.

The multinational packaged foods company said the rainy season made it virtually impossible to pick its pumpkins during this year’s harvest. The longer the pumpkins are left to soak in the waterlogged fields, the faster they deteriorate.

Because of the poor harvest conditions, Nestle announced they would cease their pumpkin packing for this season making it harder for consumers to find their favorite brand of canned pumpkin and pumpkin pie filling product until next year.

“Mother Nature had other plans for us,” Nestle said in an open apology posted online.

“There are a lot of beautiful pumpkins out there that we just can’t rescue,” said Nestle spokeswoman Roz O’Hearn.

“We hope everyone understands that Mother Nature was a little difficult this year and hope she’s a little bit kinder to us next year.”



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