I thought buccatini has a small hollow middle, which this does not. This seems like straight up spaghetti to me.
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Correct. That ainât no bucatini that youâve got there.
Donât have idiots who canât tell a box of pasta is 25% underweight do your shopping.
Could have been counterfeit product as wellâŚ
What does that mean exactly?
Who along the way is intentionally creating fake DeCecco product and selling it to profit? Thr store itself, a wholesaler/distributer they buy from, DeCecco company themselves? I donât see any of those as very likely.
At first glance the picture made me think they were hollow.
Iâm not saying it is likely, but it isnât unheard of⌠maybe for pasta but still, the google says:
Counterfeit grocery products are foods intentionally misrepresented or adulterated for profit, often involving substituting expensive ingredients with cheaper ones, diluting products, or mislabeling them, with common examples being olive oil, honey, fish, spices, and baby formula, posing risks from financial loss to serious health issues like those seen with melamine-tainted milk. To spot them, check packaging for spelling errors, buy from trusted sources, look for unclear labels or unfamiliar ingredients, and be wary of deals that seem too good to be true, as fraudsters use tricks to mimic genuine goods.
Common Counterfeit Foods
- Oils: Olive oil often mixed with cheaper oils.
- Seafood: Mislabeled species (e.g., snapper sold as grouper).
- Honey: Diluted with syrups or sugar.
- Spices: Adulterated with fillers like papaya seeds in black pepper.
- Dairy: Milk adulterated with melamine or water; cheese as âprocessed cheese foodâ.
- Alcohol: Counterfeit vodka or wine.
- Luxury Items: Truffle oil often contains no actual truffle.
How to Spot Them
- Examine Packaging: Look for spelling mistakes, poor print quality, or missing nutritional info.
- Check Ingredients: Be wary of long lists of unfamiliar chemicals, fillers, or artificial sweeteners in âhealthyâ foods.
- Trust Your Senses (Sometimes): Real vanilla melts; fake honey might not foam; real butter smells rich, not fishy when melted.
- Verify Seller: Buy from reputable stores to ensure authorized supply chains.
- Look for Seals: Check for official stamps or seals that might be reused.
Why It Happens
- High profits from substituting valuable ingredients with cheap alternatives.
- Globalization and complex supply chains make oversight difficult.
- Weak enforcement and high consumer demand.
Risks
- Health: Illness from contaminants like melamine, fillers, or harmful dyes.
- Financial: Paying premium prices for low-quality or fake products.
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(This is some mix of low content, things that make me angry, and small wins. Wasnât sure where to put it, but itâs inarguably low content, so here I am.)
Mrs. spidercrab recently decided that the kitchen needed to be deep cleaned and reorganized. As part of this process, she moved things around in the cutlery drawer. One thing she did was move the spoons and forks. They used to go (from L to R): Big forks, little forks, big spoons, little spoons. Now itâs Big forks, big spoons, little forks, little spoons, as youâll see in the below picture. Not a huge deal, but muscle memory has me grabbing a big spoon when I meant to grab a little fork. Whatever, I am an adult and will learn.
A larger and less defensible change is that she moved the (frequently used) knives to the back of the drawer, swapping them with the less frequently used âeverything elseâ, which now gets better real estate.
Hereâs the current state of the world, where you can see how much the knives have been demoted in favor of everything else:
(No I am not going to discuss whatever those things are in the bottom of the rightmost section. Camping utensils, I think? We do not camp.)
Again, fine, Iâll adapt.
But the BONKERS, completely indefensible thing she did was put the knifes in the top section with all the handles on the left. Every single person in this household is right handed. Every single person in this household is naturally going to grab the right side of the top section, which means they are going to grab the blade part of the knife unless someone steps in to flip all the knives to face the right way. (Which I did, which is why they are correctly oriented in the picture.)
So I was talking to my wife and had the following conversation:
[Me]: âWow, I see you made some changes to the cutlery drawer.â
[Her]: âWhat are you talking about?â
[Me]: âThe spoons and forks are flipped around and the knives are all the way in the back.â
[Her]: âWho cares? The kitchen needed to be cleaned, so I decided to move some things as I did it. If you want things moved back, go ahead.â
I told her that was a fair point and the changes were obviously not that big a deal, but there was one thing she did that was driving me crazy and so I went ahead and fixed it. She looked around and couldnât figure out what I changed and now she is IRATE that I wonât tell her.
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you, you have your forks and spoons going both directions in their slotsâŚyou canât do that!
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Iâm going to see if our forks and spoons fit like that.
They look like seafood forks.
Yeah Iâd guess theyâre for stabbing shrimp and olives and other misc appetizer stuff
Mixing direction doesnât bother near as much as having spoon fork spoon fork, that is an abomination!
honestly i canât believe anything you say because you tampered with the crime scene before documenting it
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This would not be a problem if you only had one size each for spoons and forks.
What kind of heathen only has one size of fork and spoon. Do you even eat soup and salad?
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I donât even open that drawer anymore. One fork, two spoons, two knives. No reason to ever put them away.
We are not fancy folk. Those items in the right most section are definitely not seafood forks. Theyâre âhere kids, take these with your lunch or wherever because we donât care if you lose themâ forks.
Why do they get prime real estate over daily use knives? No idea - thatâs an open discussion that was continued at dinner. Mrs spidercrab did finally identify what change I made. Her view is that I was making a mountain out of a molehill.