[foton1981]

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.

[thamer]

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

[baryphonic]

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

[bombcar]

Bucatini has gone away

[baskire]

...or Http 420 / 429 slow down consumption requests for bucatini

[aruggirello]

We might repurpose "418 I'm a teapot", now with bucatini power.

[toyg]

303 See Other Pasta Shapes

307 Temporary Redirect of Bucatini Deliveries

[stellar678]

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

[jrockway]

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.

[dan_hawkins]

You can begin with that recipe: [0] :)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t6ddIzPy0k

[fifnir]

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

[shorsher]

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

[francis_t_catte]

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.

[foobarbazetc]

I really want some now, too. :/

[sq_]

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]

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.