# Why is it so hard to find fusilli? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 6, 2017, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-so-hard-to-find-fusilli/800885 "2017-11-06T14:10:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2017, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-so-hard-to-find-fusilli/800885/21 "2017-11-06T20:02:53Z")
I haven’t had trouble finding it at the grocery store. I do see less selection of shapes lately to make room for the alternate grain and gluten free varieties. ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2017, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-so-hard-to-find-fusilli/800885/22 "2017-11-07T08:43:26Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > I’m not entirely sure I’ve ever heard of or seen radiatori before, but they look like they’d work great with mac and cheese, too! No, no! It’s rad and cheese! See? Even better! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2017, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-so-hard-to-find-fusilli/800885/23 "2017-11-07T12:46:37Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Ordering pasta online just seems so unnecessary, but if that’s what it takes, maybe that’s what I need to do. If you have a pasta craving and just have to have it on the spur of the moment, yeah. Otherwise I don’t understand not ordering something online if you can plan it a couple days ahead. Then again, “technology” people used to make fun of me for buying things online and said that no one would ever use it for that. ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2017, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-so-hard-to-find-fusilli/800885/24 "2017-11-07T22:52:25Z")
Tortiglioni is a great substitute for fusilli and we use it for mac and cheese as well. I can’t believe it took as long as it did to mention Fusilli Jerry; maybe there was a Sein-Con going on ? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-so-hard-to-find-fusilli/800885/25 "2017-11-08T06:47:41Z")
> [@swampspruce](#): > > I can’t believe it took as long as it did to mention Fusilli Jerry; maybe there was a Sein-Con going on ? Check post no. 2? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-so-hard-to-find-fusilli/800885/26 "2017-11-08T16:01:02Z")
:smack:Forgot that part… I was looking at post #15… ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-so-hard-to-find-fusilli/800885/27 "2017-11-08T16:27:42Z")
Another favorite shape for holding onto sauces and CHEESE is Wagon Wheels, aka Rotelle. [https://www.google.com/search?q=wagon+wheel+pasta&rlz=1CATAAC\_enUS692US692&oq=wagon+wheel+p&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l5.8037j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8](https://www.google.com/search?q=wagon+wheel+pasta&rlz=1CATAAC_enUS692US692&oq=wagon+wheel+p&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l5.8037j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8) ---
**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2017, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-so-hard-to-find-fusilli/800885/28 "2017-11-12T18:32:31Z")
They might as well call it futilli. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2017, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-so-hard-to-find-fusilli/800885/29 "2017-11-12T20:27:25Z")
You want to talk about hard-to-find pasta shapes, talk about alphabet pasta. Back in the Midwest I could get it at Meijer, but out here in the Meijer-less PNW world, I looked for over two years before stumbling onto some stocked in the \*Mexican \*section of the grocery. No, you can’t get it from Amazon. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2017, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-so-hard-to-find-fusilli/800885/30 "2017-11-12T20:35:03Z")
> [@Sattua](#): > > You want to talk about hard-to-find pasta shapes, talk about alphabet pasta. Back in the Midwest I could get it at Meijer, but out here in the Meijer-less PNW world, I looked for over two years before stumbling onto some stocked in the \*Mexican \*section of the grocery. Come to think of it, that’s the last place I’ve seen them around here, too, with the Mexican brands of pasta. (Although in most of the stores I go to, but not all, they are in the same section as the American and Italian brands of pasta.) And I’m not sure what you mean by you can’t get it on Amazon. I see tons of alphabet pasta on Amazon. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2017, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-so-hard-to-find-fusilli/800885/31 "2017-11-12T20:36:23Z")
If the OP is insistent that rotini and fusili are not interchangeable, perhaps [homemade is in order](https://smile.amazon.com/Weston-01-0701-W-Extruding-Rigatoni-Tortiglioni/dp/B0058DP5JK). ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2017, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-so-hard-to-find-fusilli/800885/32 "2017-11-12T20:39:26Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > And I’m not sure what you mean by you can’t get it on Amazon. I see tons of alphabet pasta on Amazon. (looks it up on Amazon) (blink blink) There are tons of alphabet pastas. I checked three days ago and there were none. I’d like to point out that they’re stupid-expensive on Amazon, though. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2017, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-so-hard-to-find-fusilli/800885/33 "2017-11-12T20:42:16Z")
> [@Sattua](#): > > I’d like to point out that they’re stupid-expensive on Amazon, though. Yeah, La Moderna is the Mexican brand I see around here. Looks like they’re selling it for about $5-$6 a package (7.5 oz). They’re something like 99 cents at the store here, if I remember right. Possibly even less. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2017, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-so-hard-to-find-fusilli/800885/34 "2017-11-12T20:43:46Z")
Ah-ah. No take-backs. Try Wal-Mart or Target. They have it on-line as well. ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2017, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-so-hard-to-find-fusilli/800885/35 "2017-11-13T01:29:58Z")
Million to one shot, Doc! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2017, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-so-hard-to-find-fusilli/800885/36 "2017-11-13T01:40:20Z")
> [@peedin](#): > > Million to one shot, Doc! Million to one shots pay off nine times out of ten. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2017, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-so-hard-to-find-fusilli/800885/37 "2017-11-14T22:28:58Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Yeah, La Moderna is the Mexican brand I see around here. Looks like they’re selling it for about $5-$6 a package (7.5 oz). They’re something like 99 cents at the store here, if I remember right. Possibly even less. Yeah, they’re only $0.49 a pack here for the alphabet shapes (and all the other shapes, actually), and even on special today 5 for $2. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2017, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-so-hard-to-find-fusilli/800885/38 "2017-11-15T01:59:19Z")
> [@peedin](#): > > Million to one shot, Doc! So you’re the Assman! ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2017, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-so-hard-to-find-fusilli/800885/39 "2017-11-15T02:19:58Z")
> [@peedin](#): > > Million to one shot, Doc! They have the best stories. ---
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