After eating every conceivable form of pasta, I inevitably to spaghetti: when you twirl it on your fork, you have solid bite of food, not a slippery spoon full of flabby, hollow stuff. Once you have the swirl down, it’s less messy and more satisfying than all other forms of pasta.
Hard shell tacos: It’s the mouth feel. There’s something very satisfying about having that crunch in your mouth along with the mushy fillings. A burrito or a soft shell taco is just a whole mouthful of mush. I do eat both, because hard shell tacos are very difficult to find in restaurants right now, but every once in a while I just have to seek out a hard shell for that satisfying crunch.
My favorite pasta is rigatoni, but I like spaghetti too. Sometimes it just seems right for the sauce.
Spaghetti is for suckers. 
I use Linguini mostly, cause I make light seafood type sauces.
Stewed tomatoes, mushrooms, green pepper, onions, hot peppers, garlic cloves, a few bay leaves and some assorted spices.
I cut it all up chunky style, it comes out like a Gumbo.
If I want it a little thicker I’ll add a can of tomato paste or some random brand of tomato sauce.
The base is great for any meat not just seafood.
Chicken(marinate overnight, cut up and add raw)
Sausage(pre fry in olive oil, then cut up)
Hamburger(pre degrease and add spice)
These can all be finished cooked in the sauce.
Shrimp, Scallops and Clams need to be cooked separate in garlic butter as needed they don’t take to being reheated as leftovers well.
As far as noodle type.
I’ve used Spaghetti, Linguini, them lil’ tube things and those spirals.
I preffer the Linguini.
<----------Loves them messy hardshell tacos, especially home made. (not the shells just the stuff inside :P)
It’s possible to load a properly-constructed fork with a truly enormous mouthful of pasta and sauce, when that pasta is composed of noodle-like threads. Not nearly so easy with penne or other pasta shapes.
Not every mouthful need be enormous like that, but it adds to the enjoyment and satisfaction (for me, anyway) if some of them are.