AP Confirms Knish Catastrophe

Across the country today, under the byline of AP writers Frank Eltman and Verena Dobnik, newspaper readers are catching up to some unfortunate food news.

A late September fire at Gabila Food Products Inc. in Copiague, NY on Long Island has decimated the supply side of knish economics. The 92-year-old manufacturer typically sells about 15 million knishes a year:

Kvetching has been going on at delis, diners, food carts and groceries since the six-week-long shortage began, but lovers of the square, fried, doughy pillows of pureed potatoes may not have to go without much longer.

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