The Los Angeles Times reports that “recent heavy rains in the Midwest are putting pumpkin pie in short supply this holiday season. On Tuesday, food giant Nestle, which controls about 85% of the pumpkin crop for canning, issued a rare apology and said that rain appeared to have destroyed what remained of a small harvest this year and that it expected to stop shipping the holiday staple by Thanksgiving ... Nestle says that once it runs out, it won't have more pumpkin to can until August, when the 2010 harvest starts.”
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