What do you call Pasta?

[YellowRubberDuckie]

Poll question: What do you call Pasta?

Tonight, we drove past Mazzio's. The Marquee read: "Wednesday Night Special: All Spaghetti $3.99"
What's funny about this is that this includes everything from Spaghetti to Fettuccine to Penne.

So I'm wondering: Does everyone call every kind of pasta Spaghetti? Or is that just a hick Oklahoma thing?
Duckie

[short bus president]

1. other: cheap crap they serve at Italian restuarants

to save money on meats and other actual foods.

[SOteric]

2. Pasta is pasta. Spaghetti is a type of pasta,

and Noodles is the same thing as pasta but not of Italian derivation. So, if it's Kluski from Eastern Europe, - it's noodles. If it's soba from Japan, it's noodles. If it's campagnelle, even from New Jersey, - it's pasta.

[peekaloo]

3. I just like the word noodle.

and I had egg noodles with chicken and Alfredo sauce tonight.

[HEyHEY]

4. Depends on the crowd - with educated persons

I refer to the style itself... if not - Pasta

[Radio_Lady]

7. Hey, HEyHey! Your polar bears are beautiful! n/t

[Radio_Lady]

5. Angel hair, penne, rotini, thin spaghetti --

and I forget what the little round ones that look like pinwheels are called.

I've never been to Oklahoma, so I can't comment on the latter question. We are not Italian, but when we go to Italian restaurants, they usually print out all the different shapes -- or at least the different names for the different shapes, so we get to know them. My daughter buys artichoke and spinach pasta (another complication, but better for your health).

Spaghetti refers just to the pasta shaped like long strings, pasta is the general category, I think.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

6. Macaroni is the Boston colloquial Italian term for pasta

gravy is red sauce.

[Left Is Write]

8. I call spaghetti spaghetti, fettucine fettucine, farfalle farfalle,

and so forth. I refer to elbows and shells as "macaroni."

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

14. Farfalle

I had someone speaking to me the other day who refered to it in conversation as "farfanalle". I had absolutely no idea what he was talking about!!! Finally, I understood he was talking about the type of pasta "farfalle"... so I corrected him. He grimaced. :D

Come on, I'm Italian, get the names of your pastas figured out before talking to me!

[Huckebein the Raven]

9. Pasta or the specific type

[On the Road]

10. My Ex,

who was from a traditional Italian family in Brooklyn, used the generic term "macaroni" for all kinds of pasta.

On Edit: She also said "gravy" instead of "sauce."

[Floogeldy]

11. No!

People in Oklahoma only call all soft drinks "Coke." I don't think they call all pasta "Spaghetti."

Hay, how are things in Hell Reno, anyway?

B-)

[YellowRubberDuckie]

16. Coke and Pop drives me insane...

But nothing compares to when you get Kleeb going about it.
Hell Reno is ok, but I'd rather have a job so I can get an apartment in OKC. :shrug:
Duckie

[Floogeldy]

22. Can you still get those Johnny's burgers there . . .

. . . with the cole slaw slapped on it?

That was different!

B-)

[YellowRubberDuckie]

23. Yes.

Although I don't understand why anyone would want cabbage on their hamburgers. :puke:
Duckie

[Floogeldy]

25. I ate it.

Once. And once only.

B-)

[bettyellen]

12. macaroni. that's what mama louise used to say.......

and all the italian mommas i've known.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

19. yup-we call it macaroni in Boston!

:hi:

[bettyellen]

24. it's gonna rain chocolate crosses on you next month! LOL.

macaron or macaroni. it's the east coast thing.
you like walnuts in your brownies?

[JohnKleeb]

26. Damnit you're making me hungry, y'all are

[bettyellen]

27. LOL! You can smell the brownies from there, huh?

I found two in the freezer. LOL. and i'm going to have to clean it before i move.

[JohnKleeb]

28. The oven is broken here

and the last time we had brownies, they had no taste, Ive been brownie less for too long.

[bettyellen]

31. mine taste too fucking much. lots of aromas to confuse and delight you.

expresso, walnuts and twice the normal amount of cocoa are the not secret ingredients.
and they take two nights to make, if i do it right.

[JohnKleeb]

32. too fucking much is better than no taste

[bettyellen]

34. i takes about an hour and a half to taste the love........

but it's in there.

[JohnKleeb]

35. and thats what is most important in the end right eh?

[bettyellen]

36. well no, it's the cannibutter actually. but to any neuroligist, it all ...

looks the same.
neurons firing into synapses. going to this receptor or that one.....

[JohnKleeb]

37. do they taste good with milk

like any good brownie should. BTW you can text me back, my phone is charged.

[bettyellen]

44. the drier burnt ones you mush up with ice cream.........

but milk would work too. go for it.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

29. Yes-brownies without nuts? What's that all about?

:D

[bettyellen]

33. good, because the walnuts disguise any of the shake that gets in........

and i mix the cannibutter emulsion with cocoa, so that if anything sticks between your teeth, it isn't green anymore. good, so that's four walnuts, no plain.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

13. I'm Italian - we catagorize our pasta.

Not everything is spaghetti!

[Left Is Write]

15. And now I've got a hankering for some pasta!

[YellowRubberDuckie]

20. You're welcome.

:evilgrin:

[gyopsy]

40. Agreed

There's actually at least a dozen different pasta types.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

42. I'm Italian, and we're laughing at all those white people

"Paaaasta." They think they're so hip.

It's macaroni. Then it's made into different shapes which have names.

But it's all macaroni.

How hard is that to understand?

[bettyellen]

45. that's what i said!

[Nicole]

17. I'm in Oklahoma & I never call pasta spaghetti

unless it is actually spaghetti.

Mazzio's is probably just too cheap to buy an F for fettuccine.

[ScreamingMeemie]

18. I call it what it is...spaghetti, angel hair pasta, ravioli etc...

Ya big hick. ;) :hi:

[JohnKleeb]

21. Pasta

This calling everything Spaghetti sounds like the moronic and attrious calling every soda, coke :).

[pfitz59]

30. Dinner!

Leftover spaghetti tonight! Yum!

[OldLeftieLawyer]

43. You know,

every time you post something like "leftover spaghetti," an Italian gets a cramp.

[sakabatou]

38. Most, if not all pastas come from Italy

All spaghetti comes from Italy/Europe. Everything that looks like spaghetti should be regarded as noodles.

[Dirk39]

39. Past wasn't invented by the Italians...

Pasta was invented in Asia and brought to Italy by Asians.
Although this doesn't mean, the italian food isn't among the best in the world..., but the asian food isn't bad either:-)
(The asian food, not the carricature that's often sold as asian food, but the italian food, esp. Pasta, we eat, is more than once just a carricature, too.)

I'm German anyway, I just did steal potatoes from the french...
Or who ever it was...

This is just a call for justice. Just imagine, one hundred years from now, DUers in the then empire China will start a thread about, how Japan did invent Fender Guitars and Basses...
Somebody would correct them, although the Japanese Fenders are better or nearly as good or equal to Italian Pasta...


Dirk

[gyopsy]

41. I try to be specific

whenever I can at least.

[Kat45]

46. Macaroni

I'm Italian, and we always called it macaroni. Unless it's spaghetti. We call that spaghetti. :-)