Posted on 12/28/2020 12:44:44 PM PST by mylife
Part I: The Mystery Things first began to feel off in March. While this sentiment applies to everything in the known and unknown universe, I mean it specifically in regard to America’s supply of dry, store-bought bucatini. At first, the evidence was purely anecdotal. My boyfriend and I would bravely venture to both our local Italian grocer and our local chain groceries, masked beyond recognition, searching in vain for the bucatini that, in my opinion, not to be dramatic, is the only noodle worth eating; all other dry pastas might as well be firewood. But where there had once been abundance, there was now only lack. Being educated noodle consumers, we knew that there was, more generally, a pasta shortage due to the pandemic, but we were still able to find spaghetti and penne and orecchiette — shapes which, again, insult me even in concept. The missing bucatini felt different. It was specific. Frightening. Why bucatini? Why now? Why us?
We began to talk about it, quietly and carefully, in May. “Are you guys having trouble finding bucatini? We haven’t found any in a while,” said my friend Dan, one of my most bucatini-headed friends, during an otherwise innocuous Saturday-evening Zoom session. I felt a chill, like I’d seen a ghost, perhaps the ghost of Pietro Barilla, founder of the Barilla pasta empire. “We actually … haven’t been able to find it either,” I said. The conversation halted as dramatically as if we’d just seen someone stabbed to death with a bucatini noodle inside one of the little Zoom windows.
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I always thought Bucatini was an Italian sports car.
Lord dont make me use macaroni or orzo!!!
Damned fast one too.
As God as my witness I’ve never heard of it....however I also thought turkeys could fly.
Shoot, we couldn’t find manicotti last week in Publix, Rouse’s or The Pig.
I thought it was a cheap mixed drink.
My mistake, that's a buck-a-tini.
I thought it was something you didn’t want your mom or dad catching you doing.
I live is a rural area and the only grocery store is a Meijer 25 miles away...no Italian or other ethnic stores whatsoever.
I don’t know where you live, (I live in north central Ohio), but this store has Barilla Collezione Bucatini in stock.
This made me laugh because my dad, who just passed away in August at the age of 90, had a fascination with a macaroni shape, too.
He called me and asked if I could find him some “radiators”. I had no idea that he was talking about a pasta shape at first and was totally confused about why he want radiators.
He did find them (radiatore) at a local market. When we cleaned out his kitchen there were 18 one pound boxes of the stuff. Even worse was the stacks of sardines in mustard sauce. At least the pasta was edible!
:)
I am in NE Ohio and there is tons of Italian everything
Hey’ whole bone in butts only $1.09 lb...
http://www.rullibrothers.com/weekly-specials?documentId=159
Just glue a bunch of ditalini together.
A bud gave me six tins of sardines in Louisiana hot sauce. Made my nose RUN! Ate them all, too! Get them every so...
Clever...
Nothing wrong with them lil fishes.
1st world problems... the horror...
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