The Rise in US Baking Yeast Purchases During the Third Week of March 2020

647 percent. That's the reported increase in US baking yeast purchases during the third week of March 2020 versus the previous year. The following week of March yeast was up 450 percent over the previous years week and these are Nielsen numbers covered by NPR. Everybody attributed it to mid of March 2020 in the US people said okay it's really a pandemic now we're buying yeast for at least one baking project we're doing it. Yeah yeah I feel that I didn't get into the bread baking thing during the pandemic but I did learn how to crochet so she could crochet like a bread coozy.