McDonald's runs out of French fries in Venezuela

[Bacchus4.0]

http://news.yahoo.com/mcdonalds-runs-french-fries-venezuela-172701168.html

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Forget the French fries. How about a side of yuca with that Big Mac?

Venezuela's more than 100 McDonald's franchises have run out of potatoes and are now serving alternatives like deep-fried arepa flatbreads or yuca, a starchy staple of traditional South American cooking.

McDonald's is blaming a contract dispute with West Coast dock workers for halting the export of frozen fries to the country. The dispute also caused several days of French fry rationing in Japan last month. But Sonia Ruseler, an Argentina-based spokeswoman for Arcos Dorados, which runs McDonald's restaurants in Latin America, declined to say Tuesday why Venezuela's neighbors are not suffering from similar scarcity.

Accustomed to shortages of their favorite foods, and equally in the habit of grumbling about the government as they walk away empty-handed, many Venezuelans assume the embattled socialist administration is to blame.

[Marksman_91]

1. Hmm, I wonder why this problem isn't seen in other LatAm countries...

[Xipe Totec]

2. Who said it's a problem?

Sounds like a blessing to me.