ziti

Ziti (; also zite in Italian) are a shape of extruded pasta originating from Campania and Sicily, Southern Italy. They are shaped into long, wide tubes, about long, that need to be broken by hand into smaller pieces before cooking. Ziti have similarities to bucatini, but are much thicker. Etymology is the plural form of and , respectively meaning "bride" and "groom" in Sicilian. For this reason, ziti may also be rendered as in Italian (with the regular plural form for feminine nouns in -a). In the crime-drama series The Sopranos, the phrase "box of ziti" is used as a metaphor for one thousand dollars. This term has spread to become colloquial in New York. The term was used in Albany by Andrew Cuomo during the sentencing of a bribery scheme by Joseph Pereco in February, 2018.