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Probably bowties AKA fucking farfalle. Difficult to grasp, harder to keep a hold of, don't retain sauce. Who thought this would be a good idea? probably some british designer

Angel hair is probably my most disliked. It just tastes terrible and gets overcooked so easily. I also dislike ditalini but not nearly as much since that usually only goes in like minestrone soup and it might just be that I'm not a fan of minestrone.

For the best pasta shapes, look no further than Buccatini (the objectively better spaghetti), cellentani (idk it's just fun), and gemelli (perfect texture for lightly sauced dishes).

I used to hate farfalle, but I'm okay with that one now. We've made our peace. It's another example of a pasta shape that I only had in one particular dish that I didn't care for and I formed a negative association as a result.

About to insult all of Italy - Spaghetti.
Inconvenient to eat and doesn't hold the sauce well.

As much as I love lasagna, the noodles are the worst part of preparing the dish. They're awkwardly large and heavy (for a noodle), and God help you if you overcook them even a bit as they will disintegrate under their own weight.

Hollow spaghetti. Impossible to suck it, because it has a vent hole.

Honestly, farfalle. The middle is always too hard and the sides too floppy.

Notably missing from all the answers here is dinosaur pasta since everyone likes them.

Conchiglioni/Conchiglie, the ones roughly formed like a mussel. They tend to stick inside each other during cooking.

Spaghetti are sadly not rough enough for the sauces to stick to them.

Just looked up ‘orzo’ , all I have to say is bros and broettes that is clearly rice case closed

Hard to say because different pastas are made for different uses, and might not work as well if used for other things.

But if I had to pick one I'd say Angel hair. It's just too thin and it makes me uncomfortable.

Honestly, spaghetti

If you're Italian, sorry for the stroke

Angel hair. Too fine, way too easy to overcook.

ITT: people who apparently struggle to eat pasta

I'd have to say shells, particularly the "shells & cheese" size. I always have quite a few shells stick together and end up undercooked, and I don't really encounter that challenge with other shapes.

I actually like orzo a lot, but I've always had it in dishes where it behaves like (and is possibly mixed with) rice. I think it adds a nice (creamy?) balance to some other carby things, such as a veggies. Trader Joe's sells one that really like that has orzo mixed with spinach, sundried tomatoes, and feta(?) cheese.

Orzo is great in greece style salad with feta cheese and olives

I forget the name, but the one that's kind like penne rigate, but a much wider diameter tube, with ends cut straight instead of angled. That one literally always falls apart and turns to kinda mushy strips when I've tried to cook it or had it cooked by someone else.

Buccatini. Still good, but its basically spaghetti with a weirder texture.

Spaghetti or any other long ones. Annoying to eat.

Angel hair. Undercooked, undercooked, overcooked.

~~I love orzo how dare you~~

Honestly I'm a huge pasta lover so it's difficult for me to say. Probably farfalle whenever I eat it raw. The middle parts are always a pain to eat because of the shape.

And now I am hungry.

I'm ashamed (as an Italian) to discover only now thanks to this post that "orzo" can be a pasta format and not just another cereal (it also means "barley"). I always heard the term "risoni" for it but "orzo" apparently is used as well. And I agree, it sucks.

In case you did not know there is a cylindric variant too called "tempestina" which is even more awful (mainly used for soups, or for small children). It's uncommon to see grown adults eat them but, unfortunately, they exist.

I mean, what's the point of pipe rigate? Most of them are too small to eat a single one at a time by stabbing them and they are the perfect shape to wiggle free from any attempt to hold more than one on a fork. I've seen them slide right off of a large spoon. I'm pretty sure if you could make molecules in that shape you'd invent some perfectly frictionless hydrophobic material that would revolutionize several industries.