Would have been way funnier to make it all "macaroni" or "pasta" and leave one tiny section for "spaghetti", because somehow that's the distinction people make.
I don't know whether it's a urban legend, but apparently Icelandic has a hundred or so names for snow. We have many specific words for what is important for our survival. 🍝🍕🤌
Fun info about that for meme aficionados: that expression and its various clones are the basis for the general concept of those reusable templates called "snowclones".
There are gnocchi, gnocchetti (small gnocchi) that are pasta. What you know as gnocchi are properly called "gnocchi di patate" in italian, i.e. potato gnocchis
That's the answer, the gnocchi pastas imitate the shape of the potato gnocchi.
I also wouldn't really call potato gnocchi pastas, like if I invite people to eat and say I'm cooking pastas, nobody's expecting potato gnocchi. But I think in Italy they're in the same aisle as fresh pastas.
The thing is - and op's picture is correct - that italians actually differenciate between different shapes of pasta, for the simple reason that pasta shapes have functional reasons and different shapes correspond to different dishes.
Gnocchi are a varied family of Pasta in Italian cuisine. They are made of small lumps of dough most traditionally composed of a simple combination of wheat flour, egg, salt, and potato.
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RedditWanderer@lemmy.world · 94 pts · 2y
Would have been way funnier to make it all "macaroni" or "pasta" and leave one tiny section for "spaghetti", because somehow that's the distinction people make.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 2y
No, that would've been accurate.
remotelove@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 2y
Shush. Don't confuse me with facts.
TheSealStartedIt@feddit.de · 14 pts · 2y
In persian "macaroni" is actually the umbrella term for all noodles. So persian macaroni are spaghetti most of the time.
nyoooom@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
But there are no noodles here, only pasta, noodles are usually in Asian meals
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
noodles are pasta but pasta aren't necessarily noodles since all pasta is spaghetti, as the meme foretells.
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 2y
Important western noodles include spatzle and egg noodles!
I'd argue that pierogi/vareniki count too, but I understand if you disagree.
fiveoar@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 28 pts · 2y
There's no spagetti on there... just macaroni...
Zeth0s@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y
Pasta corta nowadays. Short pasta. Maccheroni is how they were called by my grand grand mother.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 2y
Might've been the joke
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Sounds pretty sketchy IMO
odium@programming.dev · 28 pts · 2y
*pasta
Countess425@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 2y
Yeah, those are all pasta. Spaghetti is all the long noodles.
Zeth0s@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
Spaghetti is 1 type of long noodles. You have spaghetti, tagliatelle, bucatini, linguine, vermicelli...
Klear@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 2y
↑ statement dreamed up by the utterly Deranged
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Someone drives a manual
Countess425@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
🙄
Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 3 pts · 2y
Puhsketty noodles 😋
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
That sounds too kinky for me sorry
h_ramus@lemm.ee · 28 pts · 2y
By normal people do you mean the savages that have a palate sophistication of Dhaka's sewage?
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Om nom nom let's eat some kroppkaka
h_ramus@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y
I see your boiled potato dumpling and raise to the almighty jacket potato. Yes, that's considered a "meal".
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Not only can you fuck the jacket potato but you can eat it after too.
That’s just efficient.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Since gnocchi is
pastaspaghetti does that mean that these arepastaspaghetti too?h_ramus@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
Why not? And add couscous to it as well, also wheat-based.
LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 2y
Meanwhile Americans be like "they're noodles"....
joyjoy@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y
Ramen is also classified as spaghetti.
LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
You want Pearl Harbour to happen again... that's how you get Pearl Harbour to happen again
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Spam and ramen, sounds good.
MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
I wouldn’t mind dropping a couple of a-bombs on Japan again…
DieguiTux8623@feddit.it · 20 pts · 2y
I don't know whether it's a urban legend, but apparently Icelandic has a hundred or so names for snow. We have many specific words for what is important for our survival. 🍝🍕🤌
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y
Here in Sweden the rumor says that its the Inuits who have 100 words for snow.
atx_aquarian@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
Fun info about that for meme aficionados: that expression and its various clones are the basis for the general concept of those reusable templates called "snowclones".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowclone
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
But if Italians have 100 words for spaghett, did somebody touch mine?
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remotelove@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 2y
Yes. Ouch yours.
DieguiTux8623@feddit.it · 2 pts · 2y
TIL something, thanks! 🙏
Agent641@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Here in Australia the rumor is that snow is made up by other countries to flex on us!
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Yeah but you also have to turn your monitors upside down to read and are constantly living with spiders in your ears.
Slovene@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 2y
And snakes in their toilets.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
I made love to an Inuit lady once and after she had a thousand words for disappointment.
Pringles@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y
Same with Inuit. I guess it makes sense when snow is such a dominant part of your life.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 2y
kemsat@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2y
Pasta or noodles, actually.
PatFussy@lemm.ee · 13 pts · 2y
Imagine having some culture
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
I know right, disgusting practice!
Getawombatupya@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 2y
Yoghurt is a separate slide
nicman24@kbin.social · 11 pts · 2y
gnocchi is not pasta
Zeth0s@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y
There are gnocchi, gnocchetti (small gnocchi) that are pasta. What you know as gnocchi are properly called "gnocchi di patate" in italian, i.e. potato gnocchis
thethirdobject@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
That's the answer, the gnocchi pastas imitate the shape of the potato gnocchi. I also wouldn't really call potato gnocchi pastas, like if I invite people to eat and say I'm cooking pastas, nobody's expecting potato gnocchi. But I think in Italy they're in the same aisle as fresh pastas. The thing is - and op's picture is correct - that italians actually differenciate between different shapes of pasta, for the simple reason that pasta shapes have functional reasons and different shapes correspond to different dishes.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Yes, and it is also incorrect in that normal people call it spaghetti because that makes people discuss the shitpost and remember it fondly
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Unless it is, of course.
nicman24@kbin.social · -1 pts · 2y
it is made from potatoes
Album@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 2y
It's made with potato, but also flour, egg, water... Then boiled in water....Like all pasta.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Source: Gnocchi on Wikipedia
Slovene@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 2y
And flour
clearleaf@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
There's also thin spaghetti and flat spaghetti which are made by satan to deceive us.
Zeth0s@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Flat spaghetti, known as linguine, are super!
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
They're both the spaghetti
SlurpDaddySlushy@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
It's pronounced pasghetti.
Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
How is this not just a thing my dad used to say?
SlurpDaddySlushy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
I think it's a thing all dads of a certain age used to say.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 8 pts · 2y
Isn't there some new pasta shape that was specifically engineered to give maximum surface area for which to be coated with sauce?
Namstel@lemmy.one · 9 pts · 2y
Yes, the Cascatelli! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascatelli
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Mfw I try to buy a very Italian sounding pasta and it's only available in the United States.
Content warning: too much bronzer
clearleaf@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
NEW NOODLE JUST DROPPED
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
Yes, lasagna sheet.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 7 pts · 2y
Shape into bowl.
Fill with sauce.
Drink sauce from pasta bowl like it was a glass.
Agent641@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
The thirst quencher
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Pas'ta bowl of sauce mate
Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 2y
The only shapes that matter are big, small, and toob. The rest are only distractions.
Llewellyn@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 2y
That's what she said
robotopera@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 2y
Where shells? 🤌🤌
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Spaghetti
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Yo where's the farfalle at? I love me some bowties
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
It is already in the pot
CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
You smoke it!?
Getawombatupya@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 2y
You don't?
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 2y
Farfalle means butterfly.
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Yes. But the pasta is also called bowties by a lot of people lol.
lrnz92@feddit.it · 1 pts · 2y
The diminutive for farfalla, farfallino, literally means bowtie
onichama@feddit.de · 3 pts · 2y
who tf calles noodles spaghetti?
Fixbeat@lemmy.ml · 21 pts · 2y
remotelove@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 2y
Who tf calls macaroni pasta?
octoperson@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 2y
Who tf calls a feather in their cap macaroni?
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
who the fuck calls italian normal
remotelove@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y
Normal Italians.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Those exist???
bitwaba@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
cley_faye@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Looks like Desert Pasta to me.
tiredcapillary@iusearchlinux.fyi · 2 pts · 2y
Even normal people know that Italians are made of spaghetti
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
You're the first one to understand the meme
tiredcapillary@iusearchlinux.fyi · 2 pts · 2y
Amazing
Getawombatupya@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 2y
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch · 1 pts · 2y
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 2y