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Help SK - Rainbow Rotini or Rigatoni?

Which will it be?
rotini 10 votes
rigatoni 6 votes

seawolf17
Jan 10 2006 11:35 AM
Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jan 10 2006 11:45 AM

="ScarletKnight"]With just over a month to go, I'm officially drowning in the details of Bar Mitzvah planning.

Deciding between Rainbow Rotini and Rigatoni shouldn't require extended discussion.

Oy!


Scarlet needs [url=http://cybermessageboard.ehost.com/getalife/viewtopic.php?t=28&start=820]help[/url]! She can't decide whether to go with rainbow rotini or rigatoni for the bar mitzvah, so I think it's time for an extended discussion. It may not require one, but pointless extended discussions are a hallmark of this forum.

Rotini


Rigatoni


(edited to make the rotini the correct color)

Elster88
Jan 10 2006 11:39 AM

Rigatoni. All the way.

ScarletKnight41
Jan 10 2006 11:40 AM

ROFL - Thanks seawolf :)

The rotini looks more like this -


I'm leaning towards the rotini for variety sake, to go along with the bowtie pasta that is not in dispute.

I can't wait until my sememster begins so that school work can colonize my soul again as opposed to these things.

Diamond Dad
Jan 10 2006 11:42 AM
Yes

This is EXACTLY what we need -- pointless, extended discussion.

I mean, let's face it; we could just make a decision and LIVE with it, but how much time would THAT take? It would be over in a snap, and the guests at the Bar Mitzvah would never even know that there was a choice! They wouldn't appreciate the agonizing decision necessary here. And that's without even mentioning that we COULD have pencil points (don't get me started on pencil points)

There is plenty to discuss here. Whether the hole in the rigatoni traps too much sauce . . . whether the spirals of the rotini are really an alagory for Dante's rings of Hell . . . whether the rotini falls off your fork too easily . . . which would go better with the broccoli/garlic sauce . . .

Hours of fun for the whole forum!!!

(how many days until pitchers and catchers report . . . .)

ScarletKnight41
Jan 10 2006 11:44 AM

I said NOTHING about Pencil Points. They weren't even posed as an option. I'm not making you eat any Pencil Points!

On Edit - OK - we're going with Rigatoni AND Rainbow Rotini. The Bow Ties got the boot.

Thanks guys :)

MFS62
Jan 10 2006 11:51 AM

Rotini, and your guests will thank you.

The sauce "hides" inside Rigatoni, and when you pick up a forkfull, the sauce oozes out and drips all over those expensive dresses and ties.

Rotini, hands down.

There will be a consulting fee associated with any other help I provide in this matter.

Later

Elster88
Jan 10 2006 11:52 AM

Wow. Who would've thought a decision thread between rigatoni and rotini ends with [u:04b0170f50]bow ties[/u:04b0170f50] getting the boot?? CPF helps get things done.

ScarletKnight41
Jan 10 2006 11:53 AM

Things take interesting twists and turns around here.

Elster88
Jan 10 2006 11:54 AM

MFS62 wrote:
The sauce "hides" inside Rigatoni, and when you pick up a forkfull, the sauce oozes out and drips all over those expensive dresses and ties.


Yet more sauce per bite is a huge plus.

At least it is with Nonna's or Mom's ziti and meatballs. It's a huge plus with Dad's or Uncle John's vodka sauce.

This could be a minus based on quality of sauce.

ScarletKnight41
Jan 10 2006 11:55 AM

We're having Vodka Sauce as an option :)

Johnny Dickshot
Jan 10 2006 12:10 PM

IMO, which pasta depends on which sauces/extras you're serving it with.

If you're going with a red sauce or something spicy, go with the rigatoni, which can stand up to aggressive partners.

Rotini is better utilized in combination with oils, herbs, or maybe something like broccolli.

You're right to drop bowties anyway.

MFS62
Jan 10 2006 12:13 PM

If you're having options on the sauce, no wonder you're dreaming about planning this.

(Insert devilish chuckling here)

Later

KC
Jan 10 2006 12:43 PM

Whole wheat pasta is much better for you than that bleached stuff.

I'm just sayin'.

Edgy DC
Jan 10 2006 12:50 PM

Rotini. More texture, more surface area, more fun.

sharpie
Jan 10 2006 12:50 PM

The health issue prolly isn't foremost in the 13-year-old food-choice thinking.

Elster88
Jan 10 2006 12:51 PM

This is the first time I've considered cheating in a poll. I really want rigatoni to win.

Johnny Dickshot
Jan 10 2006 01:01 PM

This recalls the failed Lunchtime Olympics of 2003.

ScarletKnight41
Jan 10 2006 02:40 PM

We already settled upon our sauce choices, although those were announced prior to our televised broadcast -

Marinara
Vodka
Broccoli with Garlic & Olive Oil (kudos to Dickshot's prescience)

cooby
Jan 10 2006 02:42 PM

ScarletKnight41 wrote:
-

Marinara
Vodka
Broccoli with Garlic & Olive Oil (kudos to Dickshot's prescience)



Widey's invited? Are all of us?

sharpie
Jan 10 2006 02:44 PM

Why decide? Three sauces, two pastas.

ScarletKnight41
Jan 10 2006 02:45 PM

I was actually applauding Dickshot's prescience in this thread.

You want to come?

ScarletKnight41
Jan 10 2006 03:32 PM

Rigatoni is out again. The Bar Mitzvah boy expressed a strong preference for Bow Tie pasta. So we're going with Bow Ties, and Rainbow Rotini.

My brain hurts....

seawolf17
Jan 10 2006 03:35 PM

Hey, it's not about him. It's about us, your uninvited guests who are just going to show up for free pasta.

cooby
Jan 10 2006 03:36 PM

Oh it's rainbow rotini

I take back my vote

metsmarathon
Jan 10 2006 04:09 PM

rainbow rotini.

not only is it better at having sauces cling to it (good for chunky sauces and the like) its fun shape and festive rainbow colors brighten any meal.

and that's a good thing.

seawolf17
Jan 10 2006 04:12 PM

And the red, white, and green make it seem like a nice Italian Bar Mitzvah.

Elster88
Jan 10 2006 04:16 PM

Except that no Italian would ever serve colored pasta.



j/k

MFS62
Jan 10 2006 04:25 PM

Elster88 wrote:
Except that no Italian would ever serve colored pasta.



j/k


And (cold) pasta salad is an athema, too.
Pasta should only be served one way - hot, with "gravy" (as home made tomato sauce is called).

Right, 88?

Later

Yancy Street Gang
Jan 10 2006 04:28 PM
Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jan 10 2006 04:47 PM

MFS62 wrote:
Pasta should only be served one way - hot, with "gravy" (as home made tomato sauce is called).


It's not gravy! Believe me, not all Italians call it that.

Elster88
Jan 10 2006 04:39 PM

I've heard it both ways. Gravy is most common, but only because it was a common term here. I don't think the Italian word(s) for "tomato sauce" translates to gravy.

Iubitul
Jan 10 2006 04:47 PM

MFS62 wrote:
="Elster88"]Except that no Italian would ever serve colored pasta.



j/k


And (cold) pasta salad is an athema, too.
Pasta should only be served one way - hot, with "gravy" (as home made tomato sauce is called).

Right, 88?

Later


hmmmm... gravy....

Yancy Street Gang
Jan 10 2006 04:49 PM

I never heard tomato sauce referred to as gravy until I was an adult.

It still baffles me.

And all of my ancestors are Italian.

MFS62
Jan 10 2006 05:11 PM

Yancy Street Gang wrote:
I never heard tomato sauce referred to as gravy until I was an adult.

It still baffles me.

And all of my ancestors are Italian.


Yancy, best as I can figure from talking to my friends, its a household-by-household thing, probably depending on what region of Italy your ancestors were from.

Later

KC
Jan 10 2006 06:09 PM

I'm not Italian, but a more than capable cook. The sauce I make with
meatballs, sausage, bracciola, and a veal chop that requires a whole
afternoon to cook is "gravy" to us. A quick meat sauce or marinara
sauce or a cream sauce or a white wine & garlic sauce is, well, sauce.

No one cares what ya call it if it tastes good.

Bret Sabermetric
Jan 10 2006 09:38 PM

Once again, Scarlet and Diamond Dad have foolishly sacrificed the future (by way of dry-cleaning bills and perhaps permanently stained evening wear), and for what? So they can brag about the impossible-to-keep-on-your-fork fancy colored pasta they served at their kid's Bar mitzvah?

As if the Bar Mitzvah was going anywhere. As if people are going to remember it as the Bar Mitzvah of the season. Why don't they just accept reality, and go with the untested, newer pastas? They're cheaper, no one has high expectations, and for Chrissake I want to go in a fresh direction for once. But is there a chance they'll actually do something as logical as this?

No, they need the ink, the glitz, the back page of the Princeton Junction society page, for some pie-in-the-sky real estate deal they're scheming to line up with the New Jersey Powers that be, whoever those demonic fuckers are. DD and SK are cheapass, lying manipulators pulling the wool over your trusting eyes once more, my naive friends, and I'm just glad that I could warn about it before this whole sick, sordid affair goes down. I used to like SK and DD before they started toying with our emotional bonds with their kids, but now I just have to wash my hands of their mercenary, evil and disgustingly immoral behavior and overarching philosophy. They make me puke maggots.







(mazel tov)

DocTee
Jan 10 2006 09:53 PM

Gravy v. Sauce.... I once had a bet with an Italian co-worker who called the red stuff "gravy"...well we looked it up-- gravy is the drippings from meat, sauce the remnants of fruits and/or vegetables (if memory serves me correctly)...since he said that in his house the pan drippings from meatballs were added to the tomato "sauce", we decided to call it a wash.