Surprise, surprise! Spaghetti is the most popular pasta in Italy–at least according to a July 2021 poll by the Unione Italiana Food ranking the country’s top ten pasta shapes. Spaghetti nabbing the number one spot will hardly come as a shock; it’s undoubtedly the pasta shape most strongly associated with Italian cuisine.
It tops the poll just ahead of the also internationally-beloved penne rigate and fusilli, followed by rigatoni, farfalle, linguine, lumachine, bucatini, mezze maniche, and lasagne. But that’s merely a drop in the pasta pot; over three hundred pasta shapes are found throughout Italy’s 21 regions that many pasta lovers overseas have likely never heard of.
