Any other examples of a brand that's a market leader but also plain awful?
What makes it awful? To me it tastes the same as any other brand of dry pasta.
Grains are barely suitable for feeding livestock let alone human animals, what did you expect?
>>21626137>Any other examples of a brand that's a market leader but also plain awful?kneel before your king
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>>21626137It's good cheap pasta. You can get better pasta by paying 2x more from an italian store, but Barilla is available in every supermarket and is relatively cheap. You get what you pay for.
>>21626137Pro tip, if you have a Kroger, the Private Selection pasta is the GOAT of reasonably priced, store bought dry pasta
>>21626137All michelin star branded food
>>21626201DeCecco is also widely available, costs about the same, and is twice as good.
>>21626223Never heard about thisMy supermarket only has barilla, noname cheap pasta and the more expensive italian stuff
>>21626152>What makes it awful?THEY'RE NOT BRONZE-CUT PASTA
>>21626203Imagine eating American grain. Yikes. Bowel cancer awaits.
>>21626223aldis has a genuinely ridiculous deal with no catch as far as I can see. bronze cut starchy pasta sold for roughly walmart great value price. since that came about I've been buying exclusively from them and stocking up.
>>21626347imagine eating anything american
>>21626357Imagine eating anything
>>21626337>meme cut pasta
What's a good dried pasta to get?
>>21626401the cheapest bronze cut you can find.
>>21626401Cipriani are good and not that expensive.
The only acceptable pasta to buy outside of Italy is durum wheat pasta
i use a whole jar of sauce when i make pasta so i can't even tell the difference in terms of taste or quality of the pastai am more concerned about the shape of the pasta than the brand
>>21626554>a whole jarbig or small?
>>21626556uhhhh. normal size. i just went to my kitchen and looked at a jar it is 24 ounces which is 680 grams. but i think that weight is mostly the jar obviously.
>>21626566umm, it doesn't work like that...
>>21626569does it not? i always assumed the weight on the package included the package.
>>21626337Actually, they do have bronze cut. You're just choosing not to like for no reason other than because it's popular.
>>21626223too bad the packaging screams dollar general
>>21626556yes
>>21626566>>21626572KEK
>>21626572"Net weight" indicates the weight of the contents of the container. Gross weight would be container with contents weight.
>>21626621yeah the jar was net weight>>21626616not sure why that's so funny not like i've ever worried about the weight of anything while buying something, only went to check because that anon asked
>>21626621>>21626623i replied to you then realized i misread your post, got the net versus gross backwards. got it.
>>21626627All good, bro.
>>21626337>HOLD THE SAUCE
>>21626337I buy all kinds of pasta, fancy dececco and barilla. barilla goes on sale a lot and is more than sufficient for everyday meals
>>21626223It's not twice as good. I think it's about the same. They're all about the same.
>>21626377Are you a hunger artist like me?I'm still looking around for something I like.
Regular Barilla is mediocre but the Al Bronzo variety is pretty good. For any brand actually, choose Al Bronzo (bronze cut) if available.It holds onto the sauce much better
Not a single one of you faggots would be able to taste the difference in a blind taste test between Barilla and other brands.
I get the Raos noods :shrug:
>>21626403explain 'bronze cut' please
>>21626337Fry's having the nerve to proudly announce "Teflon cut" like yes, please embed plastic into my food
>>21626941an amazing shitpost of literature
>>21626554>jarretardhttps://youtu.be/y6Bq8NrdoIk
>>21627369the play-doh fun factory plate the pasta dough is extruded through is made of bronzeyes, some of these fuckers use teflon
>>21626554>>21626566>700g of saucejesus tapdancing christ.i hope you're meal prepping 10 servings of pasta at a time.i just made 4 portions of pasta for 4 adults and i only used 2/3 of my 400g jar
>>21626152That it tastes the same as any other brand of dry pasta but costs three times more.
>>21626573He's not wrong. Barilla Red isn't competitive either. It's not as good as De Cecco, Garofalo, Rummo and many others, it's overpriced and only 400g on top of that. It's not about popularity, you don't get to be cool because you think Barilla is useless. It's a very low tier brand. Blue Barilla is literally regular store brand tier but not as good as bronze cut store brand, just more expensive. Red Barilla can't compete with any of the big boys. There is literally no reason to buy it especially with all the De Cecco sales, that alone makes Barilla obsolete
>>21628353You wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
>>21626201It's more expensive than ronzoni while being worse.
>>21626223It was forever until I actually tried this stuff. The light color of the packaging makes it look like they cheaped out on ink which makes it look like a cheap and therefore bad product. But one day I noticed that it was more expensive than all the others so I tried it. It's legitimately twice as good - and that's now all I buy
>>21628181its only like 400-500 calories. that plus half a box of pasta which i think is around 800, 1200-1300 calories for my one meal of the day
>>21627382>>21626394>>21627369Bronze cut is better because the bronze is sticky which causes the pasta to get roughed up as it comes out. This increases the surface area for flavors to embed inside which makes it taste better and sauce clings to it better. If you just look at it, you can see the obvious difference in the product. This isn't a meme.The cheap pasta uses a Teflon die because it takes less energy to force the dough through which allows it to come out faster and increase production volume. But this causes it to be completely smooth which is a worse product.
>>21627120I've literally done it and I can
