Who knew that bucatini are so frustrating to eat?!
I've always been intrigued by the idea of bucatini--it's like extra thick spaghetti, but with a hole that goes all the way through the strand of pasta. This means that there's more surface area, so more sauce clings to the pasta, which is definitely a good thing. However, when I made some for the first time last night (with a simple yellow heirloom tomato sauce), I found them impossible to eat because the holes prevent slurping! If you try to slurp, as you would with any long noodle (as in, not in an excessive, child-like way, but in a normal eating way), you just end up inhaling sauce and air through the long hole. It was kind of like trying to drink with a straw that has a hole in it--nothing happens! I ended up cutting all of the pasta into manageable fork-spearing lengths, by which point my dinner was cold.
Has anyone else run into this problem? Anyone else have experience with food products which should be excellent, but for unexpected reasons, have turned out to be difficult, annoying, or near impossible to either cook or eat?

Maybe steak and shake is better when you go there at a reasonable time of day, but the burger I had there a few weeks ago at 2 am was god awful! I'll give it another try during the daytime, but I think I'm sticking to homemade quesadillas for my drunk munchies