Members of Occupy Justice have been performing spot checks on people’s homes to make sure everyone is still boycotting Rummo pasta.
The Italian pasta brand – imported to Malta by Keith Schembri’s Kasco Group – was the subject of a boycott at the end of last year, when Schembri was implicated in the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia.
As the former chief of staff to Joseph Muscat testified in the compilation of evidence for the first time today, several people received unannounced visits from the pressure group.
“Three members of Occupy Justice knocked on my door this morning and asked if they could have a look in my cupboards. When I asked why, they said they’d received reports of an empty packet of Rummo penne flying around the area, which must have blown out of someone’s bin bag,” said Bernardette Calleja, 47, from Swieqi.
“We switched from Rummo to Barilla as soon as the revelations came out last November and haven’t gone back, even though we’ve often been tempted to,” Calleja insisted.
“As soon as I saw them talking to Bernardette, I told my wife to quickly hide all the Rummo in the secret compartment we installed behind the fridge and quickly replace it with Lidl pasta. Who knows what they would’ve done if they’d found it,” said her neighbour, who wished to remain anonymous.
“We hate Keith Schembri and fully intended to keep boycotting the pasta, but a few months ago Smart were selling it for half price, and it’s just so damn good, the best supermarket pasta available,” he continued.
In a statement, the pressure group said:
“We’d like to remind people that buying Rummo is still an offence against truth and justice. If a household is found to be hiding even a single spaghetti strand of it, we will show up again in the evening and chant slogans in a highly tal-pepe accent. You have been warned.”
