bucatini

[prettygoodword]

bucatini (boo-kah-TEE-nee) - n., pasta in the form of long thin tubes.


Apparently this is a leftover from that pasta theme week? And somehow it ended up at the end of the queue and has worked its way up to the front? Anyway, think spaghetti turned into straws:


Thanks, WikiMedia!

From Italian, plural of bucatino, noun from bucato, past participle of bucare, to make a hole in, verbal derivative of buca, opening/hole, going back to Vulgar Latin *būca, variant of Latin bucca, mouth/cheek.

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Comments

[octahedrite]

I went to a restaurant once that used these as straws.

[full_metal_ox]

…I’d been about to ask! How well did they work, or did you use them?

[prettygoodword]

Bro asks the important question.

[full_metal_ox]

The manufacturer’s intention, of course, would be for the pasta to absorb the sauce (presumably thin and liquid, given the narrowness of the aperture?) within as well as without, for a layering of flavor.

But humans put things to all sorts of uses that the manufacturers didn’t anticipate—-I’d hazard a guess that the majority of Chex breakfast cereal is eaten in snack mixes, and that only a comparative few pipe cleaners are used to clean pipes.

[octahedrite]

They worked pretty well. The water was cold so they stayed un-soggy.

[full_metal_ox]

Sounds good, and they’d be biodegradable thereafter (although they might not stand up as long to an acidic drink like lemonade or cola.)

Thank you!

[prettygoodword]

Nice.