Submitted by Kintpuash-of-Kush t3_zld469 in todayilearned
It's actually a really good example of a monopsony, where there are many sellers but only one buyer. The only other example that I can come up with off the top of my head is barley in South Africa, where there are hundreds of farmers who grow barley but South African Brewing buys 90% of all the barley grown in the country.
This headline is way too dense
You don’t use oseltsmivir?
Sounds like the name of a guy from Belarus
In what way?
That's a tight anise threshold.
Is this why so many recipes have anise now or did pho always have anise?
Traditionally pho does have anise.
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Which is why Pho is literally medicine.
A chemical intermediate does not mean a medicine, just a chemical needed to make one chemical into another that is a medicine... Pho is freaking fantastic though.
Fair enough.
Pho enough
Pho sho
Well food is medicine sorta
Medicine
... no?
Was there an issue getting anise at that time, or was there enough to go around without impacting normal consumer demand?
It was probably the primary cause of demand by this number
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I like your funny words magic man
And it’s still impossible to get Tamiflu
My pharmacy has a generous stock. We got about 3 manufacturers of it. If you’re okay with generic. We also are one of few that have amox 400/5 in stock in the market as well.
That's good. Its also just you have to have it Rx'd very early on in flu symptoms, when most people think its just a cold or haven't got to the doctor yet
That stopped being words two thirds of the way through
TIL star anise has exactly 2 acceptable uses.
Hmm, there was a couple of years where it was fucking impossible to find Star Anise, I wonder if this had to do with it.
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No wonder phö was so expensive
Now they ferment e coli instead. That's crazy.
You could just say "leaves from that one bush"
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Those poor star anise farmers; the price must have plummeted so hard. I hope Roche used their own exclusive plantations, at least.