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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When I was younger, it was acini di pepe that was the pasta rage in our home. Especially around this time of year. We used it for leftover turkey soup.
So you like your pasta with piercings.
I had to buy fettucine instead of spaghetti, just yesterday, at Hy-Vee.
:)
Sardines in mustard!! YUM. We would have them on a regular soda cracker, when I was a kid. It was cool that you could eat the bones.
“I had to buy fettucine instead of spaghetti”, I seriously don’t know why people use spaghetti
mighty good
Spaghetti with the center missing?
Communism.
Italians are weird but they are generally OK
The inside of your head looks very odd. And kind of gross.
I have to touch type until the WD=40 works and my eyes get back to normal.
LOL.......your palm reader has to be in league with the devil to have known that.
Gateway Pundit will be along shortly to tell us that the CCP is buying it all up with help from Soros and Adam Schiff.
It’s a conspiracy I tell ya!
LOL..............
Oh, I really enjoy the Italian culture!
Samurai.....sushi.....Godzilla.....
Wait a minute.
That’s the Irish.
Sorry.
I have never understood the fascination with pasta shapes, all the fancy machines and rollers..
Its just some flour, an egg and a pinch of salt.
You put the kids to kneading it. you roll it out with a pin, fold it and cut it with a chefs knife
easy peasy
A man of the world.
My Youngstown Paison?....I was raised in Brownlee woods. Wilson High school....My 87 year old mom still shops Rulli’s and Laricca’s....
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