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Tomatoes are off the menu in India as Burger King becomes the latest fast food chain to be impacted by rising prices of the culinary staple.

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[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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Tomatoes are off the menu in India as Burger King becomes the latest fast food chain to be impacted by rising prices of the culinary staple.

(MCD) announced that many of its restaurants across the country would be temporarily removing tomatoes from their burgers, citing quality issues and shortages of supply.

Burger King’s decision comes after India’s central bank raised its inflation forecast for the current financial year to 5.4% from 5.1% earlier, citing the rising prices of certain foods in the world’s most populous nation.

“Going forward, the spike in vegetable prices, led by tomatoes, would exert sizeable upside pressures on the near-term headline inflation trajectory,” it wrote in a statement.

The cost of tomatoes in India has soared by more than 400% in recent months due to crop failures following scorching heat waves and heavy rains, according to farmers and agriculture experts, though prices have moderated somewhat in August.

This summer, the country has been rocked by both unprecedented amounts of rain and blistering heat waves, highlighting how the world’s most populous nation is among the most vulnerable to the effects of the climate crisis.


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