To my tastes pretty much every pasta that comes in a box is about the same. Except Barilla which is a little better.
Try De Cecco. It’s better and doesn’t come with free “value advice”. Consensus here in Italy is that Garofalo is the best big brand, but I think that is hard to find abroad.
I agree in the sense that if I’m only going to buy products which are owned by people who 100% agree with me then I’m going to find myself living on organic lentils and grass. However, in this case the guy explicitly said that if you don’t like his values, you can go buy other stuff. I’m just doing as he asked.
I’ll have to look. I don’t recognize the brand. Not sure if its in our stores.
This reminds me, I haven’t made a pot of sauce in a long time.
Yeah, they won my personal taste test long ago. Of course nothing in a box will ever compare with making it yourself, but that’s an even bigger pain in the ass than ol’ Guido.
Kind of a light blue, faded box.
Costco sometimes carries Garafalo - although being Costco, its 1) sometimes and 2) you’d better want ten pounds of spaghettini and not any angel hair, because that is what they have.
Barilla (one box), De Cecco (one box) Garafalo (ten pounds :)), Vigo (no boil lasagna noodles - I love no boil lasagna noodles - lasagna used to be a pain in the butt and now its a fast easy casserole dish), Orgran (Gluten Free), Bionature (whole wheat organic noodles) and the winner is four boxes of Cremette - yummy white noodles to remind you of childhood.
There are some bad gluten free noodles back there I should throw out.
Would it be politically incorrect to point out that his stance is somewhat ironic considering his first name is Guido?
From the Italian media, the original comment was “Va bene, se a loro piace la nostra pasta e la nostra comunicazione la mangiano, altrimenti mangeranno un’altra pasta. Uno non può piacere sempre a tutti,” which is “Okay, if they like our pasta and our message they eat it; otherwise, they’ll eat another pasta. One can’t always please everyone.” Another one of his statements, “Se agli omosessuali non piace la nostra comunicazione mangino pure un’altra pasta,” translates to “If homosexuals don’t like our message, let them by all means eat another pasta.”
The general context is that this guy is really old-fashioned. I don’t think he’s actively anti-gay. All of his comments suggest that he thinks gays are an optional extra in society, not really part of it, and if you want to be gay, good for you, but don’t annoy the rest of us by pretending you belong.
It’s not the most offensive homophobia in the world, but it’s also not something I want to support with my dollars. I would not be at all surprised is Signor Barilla ends up getting educated by this whole event and genuinely learning something.
I didn’t know “nohomo” was Italian. This is that much more ironic coming from a guy whose product usually hangs around with meatballs and is strongly associated with bowties.
Here’s a cute response from a competing pasta company in Germany:
LOLZ! Thank you. Brilliant.
This is what I was thinking…perhaps he dost protest too much.
And I was going to make a limp noodle joke, but that would be just too easy.
Garofalo had this one on FB:
“Le uniche famiglie che non sono Garofalo sono quelle che non amano la buona pasta.”
The only families that aren’t Garofalo families are families that don’t like good pasta."
I wasn’t shopping for pasta today but I happened to be in that aisle so I checked it out. De cecco had by far the smallest share of shelf space. It was bottom and tucked in the corner. And all they had was fusilli and penne. Their entire shelf space was four boxes wide. No wonder I never heard of them.
Yep, I bought pasta the day it came out (pun intended) and I bought DeCecco.
I like how the two bowties have adopted a rigatoni.
I figured it was in-vitro fertilization, or just having sex with a rigatoni until the bowtie got preggo.
I also like that the pastas are not all just plain wheat. Love for all, indeed.
I buy my pasta in the generic yellow package at NoFrills. I guess that make me a pasta non-aficionado.
He lost me (and my sister the lesbian, her partner and their four children) when he said gays shouldn’t adopt children.
I buy whatever’s cheapest, as long as it’s whole-grain. I just checked, and one of the boxes in my food locker is Barilla. Since they didn’t want my business anyway, I’ll just send it back.