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I am afraid this article will resurrect shortage even if it ended lately: I never cared about pasta shapes, but now I want bucatini. With 52 hacker news points

by foton1981 6y ago

I am afraid this article will resurrect shortage even if it ended lately: I never cared about pasta shapes, but now I want bucatini. With 52 hacker news points there goes national stock of bucatini.

foobarbazetc 6y ago
I really want some now, too. :/
- sq_ 6y ago
  Yeah, with the amount they talked about extra sauce absorption in the article, I now have a very strong desire to try it myself...
  - kortex 6y ago
    I found that comment kind of odd, since the real king of sauce absorption is spaghetti rigati - spaghetti with ridges. Bucatini has good sauce absorption but imho its claim to fame is its thickness, mouthfeel, and rigidity, which the author hilariously and accurately refers to as "sentient". It has a mind of its own. There are two similar noodle shapes, pici and Strozzapreti (literally "priest stranglers") but they are even harder to find.
stellar678 6y ago
You can just make your own! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuWNKMy2yKA&t=239 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuWNKMy2yKA&t=239
baryphonic 6y ago
The curse-blessing of getting to the top of HN has jumped the digital-physical barrier. Which is more likely: Error 404: Bucatini not found. MySQL Error: cannot get connection to deliver Bucatini. /me shows self out
- baskire 6y ago
  ...or Http 420 / 429 slow down consumption requests for bucatini
  - aruggirello 6y ago
    We might repurpose "418 I'm a teapot", now with bucatini power.
  - toyg 6y ago
    303 See Other Pasta Shapes 307 Temporary Redirect of Bucatini Deliveries
- bombcar 6y ago
  Bucatini has gone away
shorsher 6y ago
If you have a wegmans in your area, they might have it. I found some last night actually :)
- francis_t_catte 6y ago
  Wegmans is a no-go where I live, thanks to an old 'handshake agreement' between the Wegman and Golub families, in that there would be no overlap between Wegmans and Price Chopper territory. :( I'll have to check Hannaford and Shoprite instead.
jrockway 6y ago
People don't seem to take action based on these things. I was concerned about not being able to buy vitamin D because of so many articles positively correlating it with good COVID-19 outcomes... but had no trouble buying it recently.
thamer 6y ago
I'm not sure why this article is being published now (dated December 28, 2020) if the shortage was really in March. It doesn't seem like it's still an issue. Amazon has tons of bucatini for sale, many available in a day with Prime: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=bucatini https://www.amazon.com/s?k=bucatini
dan_hawkins 6y ago
You can begin with that recipe: [0] :) [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t6ddIzPy0k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t6ddIzPy0k
- fifnir 6y ago
  Or this one :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_0cA8aoOno https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_0cA8aoOno

I am afraid this article will resurrect shortage even if it ended lately: I never cared about pasta shapes, but now I want bucatini. With 52 hacker news points there goes national stock of bucatini.

foobarbazetc 6y ago

I really want some now, too. :/

sq_ 6y ago
Yeah, with the amount they talked about extra sauce absorption in the article, I now have a very strong desire to try it myself...
- kortex 6y ago
  I found that comment kind of odd, since the real king of sauce absorption is spaghetti rigati - spaghetti with ridges. Bucatini has good sauce absorption but imho its claim to fame is its thickness, mouthfeel, and rigidity, which the author hilariously and accurately refers to as "sentient". It has a mind of its own. There are two similar noodle shapes, pici and Strozzapreti (literally "priest stranglers") but they are even harder to find.

stellar678 6y ago

You can just make your own! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuWNKMy2yKA&t=239 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuWNKMy2yKA&t=239

baryphonic 6y ago

The curse-blessing of getting to the top of HN has jumped the digital-physical barrier. Which is more likely: Error 404: Bucatini not found. MySQL Error: cannot get connection to deliver Bucatini. /me shows self out

baskire 6y ago
...or Http 420 / 429 slow down consumption requests for bucatini
- aruggirello 6y ago
  We might repurpose "418 I'm a teapot", now with bucatini power.
- toyg 6y ago
  303 See Other Pasta Shapes 307 Temporary Redirect of Bucatini Deliveries
bombcar 6y ago
Bucatini has gone away

shorsher 6y ago

If you have a wegmans in your area, they might have it. I found some last night actually :)

francis_t_catte 6y ago
Wegmans is a no-go where I live, thanks to an old 'handshake agreement' between the Wegman and Golub families, in that there would be no overlap between Wegmans and Price Chopper territory. :( I'll have to check Hannaford and Shoprite instead.

jrockway 6y ago

People don't seem to take action based on these things. I was concerned about not being able to buy vitamin D because of so many articles positively correlating it with good COVID-19 outcomes... but had no trouble buying it recently.

thamer 6y ago

I'm not sure why this article is being published now (dated December 28, 2020) if the shortage was really in March. It doesn't seem like it's still an issue. Amazon has tons of bucatini for sale, many available in a day with Prime: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=bucatini https://www.amazon.com/s?k=bucatini

dan_hawkins 6y ago

You can begin with that recipe: [0] :) [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t6ddIzPy0k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t6ddIzPy0k

fifnir 6y ago
Or this one :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_0cA8aoOno https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_0cA8aoOno