@Cerridwyn I ordered penne for myself and for my parents, but I screwed up their ZIP by one digit. I’m almost hoping theirs never shows now that I ended up with 100# of it…
So far theirs has gone from TX-IL-WI-TX-WI-IN-TX-WI, but still the wrong corner of WI
@yakkoTDI Update: It was the first Pasta Drop to my friend. He received 100 pounds of Ziti. Hopefully the second Pasta Drop will be 100 pounds of random pasta.
So here’s my story, it is long but fantastic. Back on week two of pasta drop I signed up my sons hockey coach for a pasta drop. I waited for weeks in the anticipation of the day when he received his pasta. The day came and I got a text at 7:05 in the morning that they had just received 80 pounds of linguine. I don’t think I’ve ever laughed as hard in bed as I did that morning. There were many phone calls and conversations about how this all went down and everyone thought it was hilarious. At 3:30 in the afternoon when they got a second shipment of 60 more pounds of linguine the funny ha ha turned into “this is funny but annoying.” I thought it switched from funny ha ha to funny hilarious. Well at hockey practice the next day all of the other families received a 10 pound bag of pasta and they thought they were out of the woods and that they just had their 1 10 pound bag left.Only three days later they received their last shipment of another 80 pounds of linguini. 220 pounds of pasta in total. All of the hockey families, myself and even the recipients had many a laugh and many a linguini recipe shared. The recipient swore to me that payback would be coming. Little did I know that I would be the one that set that ball in motion.
The family that I sent the pasta drop to is hosting a Halloween party, I thought it might be funny to go as their mailman as my costume. The thought was, I would get a bodybuilder costume and put a mail carrier shirt over it and show up to the party carrying a pasta drop box. The only problem was that I didn’t have a pastadrop box. So I went to the source and asked Pastadrop if they could send me a couple of empty boxes for my costume. I received an email back saying that they would see what they could do about the boxes but no promises. Two days later I received eight texts with shipping notifications from FedEx each with a different tracking number. My immediate reaction was “oh dear what have I done?” All my fears and all my joy were realized today when I showed up and there were eight pasta drop boxes on my doorstep each containing 20 pounds of pasta.I don’t know why I would’ve expected Meh! and pasta drop to do anything different than what they did. It is the greatest final chapter in the pastadrop story that I could’ve written. Thank you Pasta drop and thank you Meh! for all of the joy you have brought to me, my family and my friends.
The best part was getting a call from my mother in law… and her explaining that a not so thrilled postman had just dropped off 5 20 lb boxes at her house, and that she now had to pull the boxes in the house and that it wasn’t funny. I shouldn’t have done that… Upon looking at my shipments… the order number didn’t match any of my orders. I’m not sure the tracking numbers matched on my boxes either. But…
TL;dr
My MIL got a 100LB drop. I didn’t do it. I am blamed for it and I can’t wait for the one that we did do to arrive :P)
We received pastadrop and still have not figured out from who. But we have laughed with friends, shared with friends, and enjoyed the whole process. I decided today who I would like to send it to only to find out it is sold out and won’t be back. Thank you Pasta Drop for the unexpected joy you gave us.
I loved every part of pastadrop including the first day crash. Who would have though people would get so excited. I wound up buying each week. (Most of it went to my pasta buddy. Her poor mailman must hate me.) The ditch and run at the food bank drop box was awesome! Thanks @snapster!
I ordered one every week ( 2 last week ) and it was a fun and exciting event every time. 3 of them went to my house and 4 to friends and family. So far one friend thought it was hilarious, still waiting on the others to ship but I know they’ll be a big hit. I gotta day though this is some good quality pasta!
One of my friends has gotten 160 lbs of penne and the order status still says Shipped, as if there’s more on the way. No idea how much he’ll end up with.
@SSteve don’t worry I think I just got all of the ziti today… 100lbs worth… plus my buddy has some ziti that hasn’t shipped out yet coming his way so I think you should be safe
You never know how much you’re getting. My Penne boxes got separated and arrived a week apart.
You never know… You may have more coming to you. One day you’ll be old and grey and complete forgotten about Pasta Drop and the last 10 boxes will arrive.
The absolute honest-to-god best part was the look on the faces of my local food bank volunteers when I dropped off 30 pounds of penne on them. Their cupboard have been bare since COVID hit, and you’d have thought it was Christmas for them when I pulled the boxes out of the car.
My wife got a drop today (from me) and it’s our 4th delivery. The mailman asked me “What kind of business are you in?”. Not sure what to do with 10 cases of Pasta…we may have gone overboard. I hope my Sister-in-Law appreciates the ones we sent her…
My sister still had some of her hundred pounds left this past Christmas, but I think my brother used his up by then; more kids there.
It doesn’t compare to pastadrop but I still keep an eye open for the occasional food bargain on Amazon and send a can or two of long term storage food, or a case of Grandma’s chewy cookies, or Vitamin Water or Body Armor drink… or the cheap! 5 pound bag of green-wrapped Hershey’s Kisses after St Patricks Day; its fun chasing down the occasional super low price (pricing error!) on the 'Zon. True, we get screwed on interstate sales tax these days, but prime ‘free’ shipping makes it pretty easy to send stuff.
This was a failed experiment on my eyes, since I ordered the first one and waited to see what exactly was going on. Three more drops went by and I didn’t bother ordering anything without really knowing what the deal was.
I did order a second drop for my parents after I received my first one, and that still hasn’t even shipped.
@snapster Well yeah, it obviously was a success in terms of selling pasta. And clearly people enjoyed it so I’m not saying it was a complete failure. It just didn’t deliver it’s full potential. Hell, half (super guessing here) of your drops have yet to be delivered which include a coupon that will never be able to be used. (Which in a way kind of turns into false advertisement…) The idea of getting people to “pay it forward” and create an amazing pasta chain reaction is moot.
Anyway, I’m just being critical because I love you guys and the whole concept itself was amazing.
@snapster So, as an experiment by your gang, what did you learn (other than Pitney-Bowes may not be the best choice as a shipping partner)? Unless, of course, what you learned is proprietary grist for the mill for future endeavors.
Well, I made out more than okay - 40 lbs of spaghettini and 100 lbs of penne, which, for $40, works out to $0.28571428571429/lb, and it’s pretty good pasta.
Factor in the $50 coupons, and basically I was paid $10 for ordering 140 lbs of pasta, bewildering my receipient neighbor, and annoying the mail deliverer.
I would’ve ordered more, but two of the spaghetinni bags were broken (still waiting to see how CS will resolve) and so wanted to see how the penne arrived, and by then it was over
The coupons were great, and I actually bought stuff I wanted on Meh, Mediocritee and Casemates. Now if I can find something, anything on Morningsave or Sidedeal …
@stolicat Users who have reported contact from CS have received a sorry and that’s it. One user posted their e-mail from CS which said the CS rep was directly told “NO” when asked if they could send out replacement to customer.
@Raider I had requested a possible replacement or refund, and after a slow-moving but effective process, I was informed by the very nice CS person that they had nothing to replace the damaged bags with but did give me a refund of the order which was quite nice.
@stolicat I sent CS pictures of my box and bag. Box was torn open on the corner with the pasta sticking out, half the spaghettini was missing. Couldn’t get a replacement, but did get a refund. CS was awesome!
Funny that this has been brought up - my friend (who I pastadropped) recently repaid me with a shipment from whogivesacrap.org - huge boxes of toilet paper. The ripples continue.
@revmem There is speculation that we may be seeing some stuff that has the BB&B house-brand labeling soon; didn’t they have snacks and “gourmet” stuff, too?
Wondering if your pasta will ever show up
@Cerridwyn dingdingding
@Cerridwyn Yup. This.
@AnnaB @dave
some day… i will get my pasta
/giphy cries
@Cerridwyn So I’m not the only one. We should form a support group.
@br14n
Might crash zoom with the number of members
@Cerridwyn I ordered penne for myself and for my parents, but I screwed up their ZIP by one digit. I’m almost hoping theirs never shows now that I ended up with 100# of it…
So far theirs has gone from TX-IL-WI-TX-WI-IN-TX-WI, but still the wrong corner of WI
@guyfromhawthorn
that’s at least 3 boxes by my calculation
The 5 $10 coupons to other Mediocre sites.
@yakkoTDI Update: It was the first Pasta Drop to my friend. He received 100 pounds of Ziti. Hopefully the second Pasta Drop will be 100 pounds of random pasta.
So here’s my story, it is long but fantastic. Back on week two of pasta drop I signed up my sons hockey coach for a pasta drop. I waited for weeks in the anticipation of the day when he received his pasta. The day came and I got a text at 7:05 in the morning that they had just received 80 pounds of linguine. I don’t think I’ve ever laughed as hard in bed as I did that morning. There were many phone calls and conversations about how this all went down and everyone thought it was hilarious. At 3:30 in the afternoon when they got a second shipment of 60 more pounds of linguine the funny ha ha turned into “this is funny but annoying.” I thought it switched from funny ha ha to funny hilarious. Well at hockey practice the next day all of the other families received a 10 pound bag of pasta and they thought they were out of the woods and that they just had their 1 10 pound bag left.Only three days later they received their last shipment of another 80 pounds of linguini. 220 pounds of pasta in total. All of the hockey families, myself and even the recipients had many a laugh and many a linguini recipe shared. The recipient swore to me that payback would be coming. Little did I know that I would be the one that set that ball in motion.
The family that I sent the pasta drop to is hosting a Halloween party, I thought it might be funny to go as their mailman as my costume. The thought was, I would get a bodybuilder costume and put a mail carrier shirt over it and show up to the party carrying a pasta drop box. The only problem was that I didn’t have a pastadrop box. So I went to the source and asked Pastadrop if they could send me a couple of empty boxes for my costume. I received an email back saying that they would see what they could do about the boxes but no promises. Two days later I received eight texts with shipping notifications from FedEx each with a different tracking number. My immediate reaction was “oh dear what have I done?” All my fears and all my joy were realized today when I showed up and there were eight pasta drop boxes on my doorstep each containing 20 pounds of pasta.I don’t know why I would’ve expected Meh! and pasta drop to do anything different than what they did. It is the greatest final chapter in the pastadrop story that I could’ve written. Thank you Pasta drop and thank you Meh! for all of the joy you have brought to me, my family and my friends.
@lloydziemba this is a great story!
@lloydziemba that is awesome!!
KRULL! A SKULL! BRETT HULL! AWESOME!
@mediocrebot Let’s Go Blues!!!
The best part was getting a call from my mother in law… and her explaining that a not so thrilled postman had just dropped off 5 20 lb boxes at her house, and that she now had to pull the boxes in the house and that it wasn’t funny. I shouldn’t have done that… Upon looking at my shipments… the order number didn’t match any of my orders. I’m not sure the tracking numbers matched on my boxes either. But…
TL;dr
My MIL got a 100LB drop. I didn’t do it. I am blamed for it and I can’t wait for the one that we did do to arrive :P)
@sohmageek lol
I hope we next get a SauceDrop or a GarlicBreadDrop or something like that.
@lljk
Hey @winedavid49 - idea for you
We received pastadrop and still have not figured out from who. But we have laughed with friends, shared with friends, and enjoyed the whole process. I decided today who I would like to send it to only to find out it is sold out and won’t be back. Thank you Pasta Drop for the unexpected joy you gave us.
We have a weekly zoom with my friends and one of them took this photo and DEMANDED who sent it. The look on his face was worth it.
@rjaiswal 300lbs worth of pasta from 2 drops delivered at once because the USPS worker didn’t want make 2 trips. It was awesome!
VAN MURALS! GROUND SQUIRRELS! SPIT CURLS! AWESOME!
I loved every part of pastadrop including the first day crash. Who would have though people would get so excited. I wound up buying each week. (Most of it went to my pasta buddy. Her poor mailman must hate me.) The ditch and run at the food bank drop box was awesome! Thanks @snapster!
HIKING! VIKINGS! STRIKE KING [BRAND FISHING LURES]! AWESOME!
I ordered one every week ( 2 last week ) and it was a fun and exciting event every time. 3 of them went to my house and 4 to friends and family. So far one friend thought it was hilarious, still waiting on the others to ship but I know they’ll be a big hit. I gotta day though this is some good quality pasta!
My friend actually panicking about the sheer amount of pasta received
@heartbleed 100% This showed up over the course of several days
The look on my wife’s face… when 40lbs of pasta showed up today. She said that this pasta be over soon.
This was my favorite part. Getting this message on my phone every time I tried to go here:
One of my friends has gotten 160 lbs of penne and the order status still says Shipped, as if there’s more on the way. No idea how much he’ll end up with.
@schiver Did it end up as more? My friend got 160# of Spaghetti over the course of 4-5 days and the tracking was a total mess.
@corrado He ended up with 180 lbs over like 4 shipments across a week plus of deliveries
My wife was just telling some of her friends about my adventures with pastadrop. You’ve made an impact.
Also, I’m still finishing off the last 5 lbs of my 100 lb shipment.
If y’all want to keep us around, your next experiment can be moneydrop, you pay a specific price and a random amount of cash shows up at your door.
I’m afraid to try the random one. I’m afraid it will all be ziti. Oh, well.
/giphy mechanical-kooky-kettle
@SSteve don’t worry I think I just got all of the ziti today… 100lbs worth… plus my buddy has some ziti that hasn’t shipped out yet coming his way so I think you should be safe
I guess I’m lucky to have only received 20#??? Wow
@robjean 20# so far!
You never know how much you’re getting. My Penne boxes got separated and arrived a week apart.
You never know… You may have more coming to you. One day you’ll be old and grey and complete forgotten about Pasta Drop and the last 10 boxes will arrive.
@OnionSoup @robjean
my pennne is lost in the stars
The absolute honest-to-god best part was the look on the faces of my local food bank volunteers when I dropped off 30 pounds of penne on them. Their cupboard have been bare since COVID hit, and you’d have thought it was Christmas for them when I pulled the boxes out of the car.
This morning I noticed is was 11:15- OMG IT’S PASTA DROP TIME! Except there was no pastadrop and I was sad.
@sammydog01 sad times indeed.
It has to be all the kinky things I did with the pasta.
@OnionSoup
Do tell
/giphy inquiring minds want to know
@Cerridwyn well… I took a long strand of cooked spaghettini… Then I twisted it around another strand and it got kinks in it.
My wife got a drop today (from me) and it’s our 4th delivery. The mailman asked me “What kind of business are you in?”. Not sure what to do with 10 cases of Pasta…we may have gone overboard. I hope my Sister-in-Law appreciates the ones we sent her…
The random amount showing up on different days to the unsuspecting giftees.
My sister still had some of her hundred pounds left this past Christmas, but I think my brother used his up by then; more kids there.
It doesn’t compare to pastadrop but I still keep an eye open for the occasional food bargain on Amazon and send a can or two of long term storage food, or a case of Grandma’s chewy cookies, or Vitamin Water or Body Armor drink… or the cheap! 5 pound bag of green-wrapped Hershey’s Kisses after St Patricks Day; its fun chasing down the occasional super low price (pricing error!) on the 'Zon. True, we get screwed on interstate sales tax these days, but prime ‘free’ shipping makes it pretty easy to send stuff.
The processing penne.
I’m looking forward to the next pastadrop popup.
Bring on Armageddon so we have an excuse for PastaDrop2.
I don’t get this
This was a failed experiment on my eyes, since I ordered the first one and waited to see what exactly was going on. Three more drops went by and I didn’t bother ordering anything without really knowing what the deal was.
I did order a second drop for my parents after I received my first one, and that still hasn’t even shipped.
technically we decided the only way the experiment would fail was if we had any pasta left at the end…
but yeah, launching a bulk shipping experiment at what became the worst shipping services bottleneck ever has been a downer
@snapster
/giphy pasta fail
Honestly though snapster if I think you used any other shipping company it would have been better
But how could you know that your mediocre shipping company would fall into the pits of h***
@snapster if you have any left over, you have my address and my credit card. i would never want to see you guys fail
@snapster Well yeah, it obviously was a success in terms of selling pasta. And clearly people enjoyed it so I’m not saying it was a complete failure. It just didn’t deliver it’s full potential. Hell, half (super guessing here) of your drops have yet to be delivered which include a coupon that will never be able to be used. (Which in a way kind of turns into false advertisement…) The idea of getting people to “pay it forward” and create an amazing pasta chain reaction is moot.
Anyway, I’m just being critical because I love you guys and the whole concept itself was amazing.
@Cerridwyn You mean the Pitney-Bowes of Hell?
@ThunderChicken
shouldn’t that be Pitney-Bowels?
@snapster So, as an experiment by your gang, what did you learn (other than Pitney-Bowes may not be the best choice as a shipping partner)? Unless, of course, what you learned is proprietary grist for the mill for future endeavors.
I am sad I messed around too long and didn’t get to send noods to anybody please let me surprise somebody with some noodles
Well, I made out more than okay - 40 lbs of spaghettini and 100 lbs of penne, which, for $40, works out to $0.28571428571429/lb, and it’s pretty good pasta.
Factor in the $50 coupons, and basically I was paid $10 for ordering 140 lbs of pasta, bewildering my receipient neighbor, and annoying the mail deliverer.
I would’ve ordered more, but two of the spaghetinni bags were broken (still waiting to see how CS will resolve) and so wanted to see how the penne arrived, and by then it was over
The coupons were great, and I actually bought stuff I wanted on Meh, Mediocritee and Casemates. Now if I can find something, anything on Morningsave or Sidedeal …
@stolicat Users who have reported contact from CS have received a sorry and that’s it. One user posted their e-mail from CS which said the CS rep was directly told “NO” when asked if they could send out replacement to customer.
@Raider I had requested a possible replacement or refund, and after a slow-moving but effective process, I was informed by the very nice CS person that they had nothing to replace the damaged bags with but did give me a refund of the order
which was quite nice.
CS: 10/10.
@stolicat I sent CS pictures of my box and bag. Box was torn open on the corner with the pasta sticking out, half the spaghettini was missing. Couldn’t get a replacement, but did get a refund. CS was awesome!
POPSOCKETS! SPROCKETS! DAVY CROCKETT! AWESOME!
Sis said her roommate took her boxes to the bird rescue where she works. Apparently the smaller boxes are the perfect size for baby birds.
THEY STOLE IT
Funny that this has been brought up - my friend (who I pastadropped) recently repaid me with a shipment from whogivesacrap.org - huge boxes of toilet paper. The ripples continue.
@marcee That’s cool! I’d never heard of that site.
And I thought I had it good with 120 lbs from 2 drops. I wonder what my wife would have said to 300 lbs. Zowie!
I love the PastaDrop experiment. It was ridiculous fun. I only wish there was a gluten free week for those of us that can’t eat the gluten.
I want to drop more pasta. And Kraft ripped off your idea as was mentioned above. Please sue them. Thank you.
I miss pasta drop… is anything like it coming back?
@thisisbrooke They could have done TrackR-drop.
Is anybody else still getting monthly charges from PastaDrop? I am not a happy camper.
@happyenappah is it your membership? If you signed up as a member from pastadrop then your $5 may be charged by them.
Yes.
I finished a bag of penne and figured I’d check the site.
Also finished my slim jims recently.
Wonder what else life has in store.
@revmem There is speculation that we may be seeing some stuff that has the BB&B house-brand labeling soon; didn’t they have snacks and “gourmet” stuff, too?