The Great Hummus Shortage

[ffutures]

Some time in the eighties or nineties (don't know the exact date) a factory in (I think) one of the Scandenavian countries had some sort of fire or explosion, halting pretty much all industrial production of hummus outside the Middle East. As a result there was a global hummus shortage for several months.

Can anyone find me the details of this - exactly when and where it happened etc.? It doesn't seem to be googleable easily.

Comments

[pengshui-master.livejournal.com]

No idea. You're best best might be a newspaper archives search for which you may need a real library. The 1980s after all predate the popular internet. The event may even predate clari.net (some describe it as the first ever .com) which is relevant as they were the first internet news service.

Are the old editions of any broadsheets available online at all - even if it through a paywall?

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

No idea - unless I can pin it down a bit I don't think there's much point paying money for a search!