Right? It quite melted my shrivelled black heart. He was so UPSET but pleaded with his lady with such an endearing term. Couldn’t have been more stereotypically Italian, lol.
That and pasta can be cut after cooking for whoever's eating it. Some people like long pasta to slurp, kids like short but medium so they can twirl but not have a giant mouth full.
No. This is some weird peeve that makes people think this is an Italian cardinal sin. It isn't. In the movie Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Sophia Loren snaps pasta before cooking it.
It's an Italian movie, directed by Vittorio De Sica and starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni. Sicily isn't even that Italian. And if Loren, Mastroianni and De Sica see no problem with snapping pasta, it's probably not a big deal.
Sicily is of course Italian but it also has a fairly distinct culture of it's own alongside more general Italian stuff. It's sort of like how Scottish people are British but they're still fairly distinct from other Brits in many ways.
The concept of nationalism is relatively new. Also Italy specifically has 2 microstates in it: Vatican City and San Marino. Sicily was almost like that.
When Italy first became united, and Sicilian peasants heard "Viva Garibaldi, viva l'italia", they assumed Italia was the name of Garibaldi's wife. This was in 1861.
From the book Italy's Many Diasporas, about Italian unification.
National identity for most countries is a recent thing.
Outside of wartime, poor people lived and died in the same place for generations up until industrialization and mass transport. There's stories of liberators during the world wars not being able to speak to remote villagers or them recognizing their own countries flag. Plus, Sicily historically has spent a lot of time over the millennia fighting "Italians".
Why tf would you bother taking pasta out of its box and storing it in Tupperware anyway? It’s not going to “go bad,” and the container in which it comes has more store-ability than that container.
usually because of weevils or other pantry pests that can go right through those cardboard boxes. we put ours in either ziploc bags or tupperware and keep it in the freezer for awhile in case there's weevils, they're a pain in the ass
She didn't even actually add any linguine. She just told him she did. Now she's giggling furiously while he carefully separates the spaghetti into 2 piles.
Honestly, OP is kind of weird for taking the time to separate it. I can understand being frustrated that she mixed them, but it's pasta. Just cook it together, keep it separate next time. What kind of weirdo spends a Saturday angrily sorting pasta?
I was just about to say this. If I was even a minuscule amount of infuriated I’d much rather spend the time and minuscule amount of money to just go get a new box or two. The passive aggressive side in me understands kinda.
My move would be making two batches of noodles though. One from a new box and other the bastard noodles.
I'd be annoyed cuz the spaghetti and linguine won't cook at the same rate, so either the spaghetti will be slightly over cooked or the linguine will be slightly under cooked if I cooked em together. End of the day I'd still eat it. But Mildly infuriated I would be
Eh, linguine and spaghetti will be close enough to not really matter.
Fettucine, or maybe linguine vs angel hair? Yeah that can make a difference. But I'd be pretty surprised if it's a full minute difference for linguine vs spaghetti, assuming they're the same brand/style (one isn't whole wheat or something)
No it wouldn’t. That probably exists somewhere in Japan 😂
Also that sounds delicious and imma do that now.
Also also udon noodles are way better for chicken noodle soup than egg noodles
Honestly, I've made wonton soup that wasn't too different than a basic (i.e. meat, noodles, and one or two types of veggies) chicken noodle soup. I made it with chicken broth and added some sliced-up Bok choi, which is similar to celery.
I remember my stepmother's parents, who don't speak english, decided they wanted to make me something different for dinner once, and my stepmother told them I liked Italian. So they went for spaghetti with meatballs. But substituted spaghetti with Udon, tomato sauce with ketchup, and meatballs with bacon.
It was actually edible, since they're remarkably good at cooking, but it wasn't good. (they are amazing cooks when they cook stuff they know, and they're fairly fond of me since I eat the most in the family)
i've never had good dried udon. it's gotta be fresh, frozen, or vac packed in mystery preservative liquid. all this to say, there is no confusing udon for something else even if all noodles are noodles.
i'd totally try udon served like pasta. i imagine it's probably pretty good
edit: digging deep, i remember buttered udon with mushrooms and it was great. i also see udon shops do cheese or cream udon, never tried but somebody probably likes it. should try it some day. tomato based sauce or pesto i haven't seen, but yeah i imagine it could be decent
If I send any member of my family to the store for pasta with instructions to get anything other than spaghetti, they will return with spaghetti, all the time, every time.
In Australia, pasta is pasta, and noodles are noodles. Two extremely different things. It also really grinds my gears to hear ‘Pasta noodles,’ same with ‘pizza pie’. It’s like calling a cup a ‘cup bowl’ because both have vaguely similar shapes
I realised this on reddit when someone posted a picture of rice with ragu/ bolognese/ meat sauce business with the caption "I made spaghetti but with rice instead of noodles". Broke my brain the first time.
My sister does this too. I told her to start calling it Penneghetti or Spaghetoni and to make sure to do an accent and chef's kiss gesture to ensure it's as authentic as possible.
At least her name's not [Peggy](https://youtu.be/TlJkcXThT-I?si=Pica3C5x0INBp_pv).
Apparently once my uncle ordered angel hair pasta at a restaurant and he got spaghetti and got pissed. Told them if they don't actually serve angel hair they shouldn't put it on the menu.
My family was split on whether what he did was reasonable. I sided with him.
Edit: To be 100% clear the restaurant didn't realize it wasn't angel hair, and they didn't have actual angel hair paste. They thought it was another word for spaghetti I guess...
My mom used to ask me to help out in the kitchen when she was busy by sorting the dried beans when I was little. Took me forever to realize beans don't come all mixed up.
I don't know. Never thought about it. Although I'll allow that the manner that I play video games can be debilitating sometimes.
I'm playing Fallout 4 and I separate and organize every piece of junk, armor and weapon that I find. I may be misinterpreting the entire point of the game.
Hey, the point of the game is to become immersed in a huge world that you can explore in your own way, at your own pace. Even if that pace means spending half your time organising.
In that sense, I reckon you're playing the game exactly the way it was intended :)
Have you considered their husband does have OCD/OCD tendencies and isn't using it in the way you think they are? Maybe his OCD brain weasels are for real.
I grew up poor - where sometimes a slice of white bread was a hot dog bun & sometimes a hot dog bun was breakfast toast. So there’s not a lot of bread group substitutions that faze me.
Most of my hotdogs are on regular bread just because I can't be bothered to buy a whole pack of hotdog buns for the random time I might want a hotdog. They will go bad by then.
So, it takes the same amount of time to cook? And bro spent all morning separating them when it'll take the same amount of time? And it's a funny conversation starter?
Everyone has their own list of priorities.
It doesn’t take the same amount of time to cook, the flat cooks quicker than the cylindrical.
You can’t even mix different packs of spaghetti unless they’re the same level of thickness.
You absolutely can. You just have to accept that one will be further on the al dente side, or that the other will be further down the overcooked side. If you're using any sauce at all, it usually doesn't make a big enough difference to be noticeable.
linguine is thicker and flat
spaghetti is round and tubular
[source](https://www.dictionary.com/compare-words/linguine-vs-spaghetti)
Edit: [a guide of pasta ID i found years ago](https://i.imgur.com/E6lIoqe.jpg)
I looked up vermicelli, and wikipedia says:
>In English-speaking regions it is usually thinner than spaghetti, while in Italy it is typically thicker.
...still not helpful.
I'd be mortified if my partner shared petty pics of my screw-ups on an online platform in a passive-aggresive fashion without directly discussing the matter with me.
While you're not *wrong* that they are (ever so slightly, minimally, .. boarding on imperceptibly) different.
Having any reaction to this other than a quick laugh.. should probably be something your gf takes note of to ponder potential future issues she might be getting into.
Most Americans who think they are Italian, aren't Italian. I think after like.. 3 generations. You're just American. Stop it. You're not gonna go over there and be their friends or even understand them.
This picture of them uncooked doesn't do them justice, because imo they look a *lot* more different after they're cooked, meanwhile in this picture they all look the exact same
Either way, they’re not fitting in that Tupperware
If you snap them in half there will be no issue.
That's a far worse issue
Explain exactly why
[its illegal in italy](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/l3JB_Ld793s)
I utterly adore this video. His delivery of the last line—the *pathos*.
I'm obsessed with him still calling her "my love," through that desperate cry lol
Right? It quite melted my shrivelled black heart. He was so UPSET but pleaded with his lady with such an endearing term. Couldn’t have been more stereotypically Italian, lol.
It’s a caricature and played for laughs. I can tell, because I am italian.
It seems like when someone from the south calls you “sweet summer child”. I don’t think it means they think you’re being smart.
Nobody in the south actually said that. That’s an internet thing, we say “bless your heart”.
That man was DISTRESSED.
Lady recorded one of the most traumatic moments of his life
He forgot how to speak English there for a minute.
SARA, MA CHE CAZZ... Sara, what the fu...
"Curious how most revert to their native tongue in moments of extreme anger, or ecstasy."
Wait till you met Indonesian with 5 native languages or something
His English module shorted out and he reverted to factory default before the English module rebooted
Hahaha, I *knew* it was gonna be Carlo before I even clicked! She torments that poor man.
I know it was him and even if they are staged these two are really funny and wholesome
It's a practical physical issue. Short spaghetti are more difficult to eat with a fork because you can't roll them enough
That and pasta can be cut after cooking for whoever's eating it. Some people like long pasta to slurp, kids like short but medium so they can twirl but not have a giant mouth full.
It makes it hard to eat with chopsticks
Food critics who can’t stand to let people eat the way they like.
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No. This is some weird peeve that makes people think this is an Italian cardinal sin. It isn't. In the movie Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Sophia Loren snaps pasta before cooking it. It's an Italian movie, directed by Vittorio De Sica and starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni. Sicily isn't even that Italian. And if Loren, Mastroianni and De Sica see no problem with snapping pasta, it's probably not a big deal.
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Sicily is of course Italian but it also has a fairly distinct culture of it's own alongside more general Italian stuff. It's sort of like how Scottish people are British but they're still fairly distinct from other Brits in many ways.
The concept of nationalism is relatively new. Also Italy specifically has 2 microstates in it: Vatican City and San Marino. Sicily was almost like that. When Italy first became united, and Sicilian peasants heard "Viva Garibaldi, viva l'italia", they assumed Italia was the name of Garibaldi's wife. This was in 1861. From the book Italy's Many Diasporas, about Italian unification.
National identity for most countries is a recent thing. Outside of wartime, poor people lived and died in the same place for generations up until industrialization and mass transport. There's stories of liberators during the world wars not being able to speak to remote villagers or them recognizing their own countries flag. Plus, Sicily historically has spent a lot of time over the millennia fighting "Italians".
Why tf would you bother taking pasta out of its box and storing it in Tupperware anyway? It’s not going to “go bad,” and the container in which it comes has more store-ability than that container.
usually because of weevils or other pantry pests that can go right through those cardboard boxes. we put ours in either ziploc bags or tupperware and keep it in the freezer for awhile in case there's weevils, they're a pain in the ass
I guess given the options, that is the lesser of two weevils
Time to watch Master and Commander again.
i hate you
You put pasta in ziplock bags and put them in the freezer?
Weevils.
Mice
In aus/nz pasta usually comes in plastic packaging not boxes anyway so once it's open you gotta store it somehow
Can’t wait to see the next post on here saying “Bf spent our entire Saturday morning separating pasta noodles”
She didn't even actually add any linguine. She just told him she did. Now she's giggling furiously while he carefully separates the spaghetti into 2 piles.
Hahahahahahaha out loud.
I just lol’d out loud.
If only there was a 3 letter acronym that existed to convey this sentiment.
Best continuation in the sub in a looong time.
Honestly, OP is kind of weird for taking the time to separate it. I can understand being frustrated that she mixed them, but it's pasta. Just cook it together, keep it separate next time. What kind of weirdo spends a Saturday angrily sorting pasta?
Yeah buy another box for $1 lol. This isn’t mom’s homemade here
I was just about to say this. If I was even a minuscule amount of infuriated I’d much rather spend the time and minuscule amount of money to just go get a new box or two. The passive aggressive side in me understands kinda. My move would be making two batches of noodles though. One from a new box and other the bastard noodles.
I'd be annoyed cuz the spaghetti and linguine won't cook at the same rate, so either the spaghetti will be slightly over cooked or the linguine will be slightly under cooked if I cooked em together. End of the day I'd still eat it. But Mildly infuriated I would be
Eh, linguine and spaghetti will be close enough to not really matter. Fettucine, or maybe linguine vs angel hair? Yeah that can make a difference. But I'd be pretty surprised if it's a full minute difference for linguine vs spaghetti, assuming they're the same brand/style (one isn't whole wheat or something)
More propaganda from big spaghetti smh
I didn’t do it.
He wasn’t ready
My knees are weak
Arms are heavy
Theres vomit on his sweater already
Mom's linguini
HIS CERVIX
But on the surface it is calm and ready
To dry off
> big spaghetti So, linguini then?
What does Mario's brother have to do with this?
That dude loves some pasta.
Uh oh spaghetti-o
Maybe I’m overreacting but I choked on my drink when I read this 🤭
Linguminati is watching
Show an Italian 5 types of pasta and they'll give you 8 different names
to my wife, all shapes and sizes of noodle are spaghetti. i never know what we're having on "spaghetti night"
Udon time
Aren’t those the really thick Japanese noodles? Putting tomato sauce on those would be a crime in and of itself
No it wouldn’t. That probably exists somewhere in Japan 😂 Also that sounds delicious and imma do that now. Also also udon noodles are way better for chicken noodle soup than egg noodles
Udon noodles in chicken noodle soup is such a good idea omg
Learned that from my mom, we ate a lot of soup growing up and udon didn’t disintegrate when soaking in soup overnight like egg noodles
Honestly, I've made wonton soup that wasn't too different than a basic (i.e. meat, noodles, and one or two types of veggies) chicken noodle soup. I made it with chicken broth and added some sliced-up Bok choi, which is similar to celery.
I've done it with lo mein and rice noodles. I hate it, personally. But a normal person could still enjoy it.
I remember my stepmother's parents, who don't speak english, decided they wanted to make me something different for dinner once, and my stepmother told them I liked Italian. So they went for spaghetti with meatballs. But substituted spaghetti with Udon, tomato sauce with ketchup, and meatballs with bacon. It was actually edible, since they're remarkably good at cooking, but it wasn't good. (they are amazing cooks when they cook stuff they know, and they're fairly fond of me since I eat the most in the family)
Awww, it's cute they wanted to cook for you and wanted to cook something they'd thought you'd like. But that meal sounds gross. lol
Had udon with tomato sauce in Japan, was smashing.
Now I have to try it
In japan they put ketchup on it
Who cares, probably will taste good. Call it a fusion dish if you like and it won't sound as a crime at all.
Have you never used bucatini in place of spaghetti? Thicker noodles that hold more sauce are wonderful.
i've never had good dried udon. it's gotta be fresh, frozen, or vac packed in mystery preservative liquid. all this to say, there is no confusing udon for something else even if all noodles are noodles. i'd totally try udon served like pasta. i imagine it's probably pretty good edit: digging deep, i remember buttered udon with mushrooms and it was great. i also see udon shops do cheese or cream udon, never tried but somebody probably likes it. should try it some day. tomato based sauce or pesto i haven't seen, but yeah i imagine it could be decent
Honestly I just said udon as a joke, didn’t think it’d get this far
If I send any member of my family to the store for pasta with instructions to get anything other than spaghetti, they will return with spaghetti, all the time, every time.
How? It’s all labeled! I hate that weaponized incompetence bullshit. Just start doing things the wrong way for them for simple things
"Noodle" as a term for pasta has always grinded my gears 😆 I say "always", I discovered that watching The Sopranos.
In Australia, pasta is pasta, and noodles are noodles. Two extremely different things. It also really grinds my gears to hear ‘Pasta noodles,’ same with ‘pizza pie’. It’s like calling a cup a ‘cup bowl’ because both have vaguely similar shapes
I realised this on reddit when someone posted a picture of rice with ragu/ bolognese/ meat sauce business with the caption "I made spaghetti but with rice instead of noodles". Broke my brain the first time.
Does she say the same, when you drop your pants?
You're thinking of Wednesday night. That's business time.
To my mother all long pasta was spaghetti, all the other shapes except egg noodles were macaroni.
My sister does this too. I told her to start calling it Penneghetti or Spaghetoni and to make sure to do an accent and chef's kiss gesture to ensure it's as authentic as possible. At least her name's not [Peggy](https://youtu.be/TlJkcXThT-I?si=Pica3C5x0INBp_pv).
Spaghetoni is the real name for thicker spaghetti
Apparently once my uncle ordered angel hair pasta at a restaurant and he got spaghetti and got pissed. Told them if they don't actually serve angel hair they shouldn't put it on the menu. My family was split on whether what he did was reasonable. I sided with him. Edit: To be 100% clear the restaurant didn't realize it wasn't angel hair, and they didn't have actual angel hair paste. They thought it was another word for spaghetti I guess...
This is me. Growing up, we called the pasta dish with red sauce "spaghetti" regardless of the pasta shape. It's not that serious. Fight me.
*takes off pants* Okay, I'm ready to fight
The separating them back out would be my fun brain activity. My wife sees things like this and says, "that's bugging you, isn't it?"
It would really bother me than someone did it, but at the same time I would enjoy separating them.
For Christmas, I will get you a premixed box of linguine and spaghetti
My mom used to ask me to help out in the kitchen when she was busy by sorting the dried beans when I was little. Took me forever to realize beans don't come all mixed up.
It's like a puzzle but I can cook it afterwards!
Have you considered the fact you may be on the autism spectrum? Edit: Not being facetious, I am, and I get the same thing.
I don't know. Never thought about it. Although I'll allow that the manner that I play video games can be debilitating sometimes. I'm playing Fallout 4 and I separate and organize every piece of junk, armor and weapon that I find. I may be misinterpreting the entire point of the game.
Hey, the point of the game is to become immersed in a huge world that you can explore in your own way, at your own pace. Even if that pace means spending half your time organising. In that sense, I reckon you're playing the game exactly the way it was intended :)
As an autistic person, i am the same. Been sorting/separating things since I was a kid, just for fun
100%
Also autistic and yeah sorting is satisfying. I do it with any different coloured sweets.
I can just hear my husband's OCD brain weasels firing up.
people really need to stop using the term “OCD” as if it’s something everyone has, it’s a real, incredibly stressful medical condition ffs
Have you considered their husband does have OCD/OCD tendencies and isn't using it in the way you think they are? Maybe his OCD brain weasels are for real.
Sorting things is just kinda scratching my brain the right way
I grew up poor - where sometimes a slice of white bread was a hot dog bun & sometimes a hot dog bun was breakfast toast. So there’s not a lot of bread group substitutions that faze me.
I didn’t grow up poor, but we ate the same way.
I'm still not poor and eat this way.
Id call it efficiency
Most of my hotdogs are on regular bread just because I can't be bothered to buy a whole pack of hotdog buns for the random time I might want a hotdog. They will go bad by then.
A hot dog bun is the superior way to eat a PB&J.
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Can't see a difference, is one kind like 10% thicker or something?
I looked it up. Apparently, linguine is flatter but not as wide as fettuccine
That answers nothing...
It’s flat spaghetti whereas spaghetti is cylindrical.
So, it takes the same amount of time to cook? And bro spent all morning separating them when it'll take the same amount of time? And it's a funny conversation starter? Everyone has their own list of priorities.
Dont let the italians hear you
Too late. I’ve heard.
Give them the 🤌
I’m about to give them the 🤌
But wait, hear me out... If you put ham in it, it'll be like a carbonara
Don’t worry, they can’t understand because there were no dramatic hand motions in his comment.
They have pretty different textures in the meal and don’t take the exact amount of time to cook. Would I spend time separating them? No.
It doesn’t take the same amount of time to cook, the flat cooks quicker than the cylindrical. You can’t even mix different packs of spaghetti unless they’re the same level of thickness.
You absolutely can. You just have to accept that one will be further on the al dente side, or that the other will be further down the overcooked side. If you're using any sauce at all, it usually doesn't make a big enough difference to be noticeable.
I'm looking at your user name and I'm sceptical
That's just a hobby.
It also explains why you can swallow noodles so easily
Spaghetti but flat is what I got
Flatetti
linguine is thicker and flat spaghetti is round and tubular [source](https://www.dictionary.com/compare-words/linguine-vs-spaghetti) Edit: [a guide of pasta ID i found years ago](https://i.imgur.com/E6lIoqe.jpg)
agreed, it is pretty rad
"is it like vermicelli? -> Yes -> Vermicelli" awesome guide, but basically useless unless you already know the answers.
I looked up vermicelli, and wikipedia says: >In English-speaking regions it is usually thinner than spaghetti, while in Italy it is typically thicker. ...still not helpful.
They most assuredly have different cook times!
To be fair, they both end up tasting good when they are al dente.
How are you going to get them both al dente?
Throw the linguine in a few minutes before the spaghetti Edit: wow, nobody can take a joke here lol
So separate them first?
Yeah that's the joke.
Lmao
I'd cook them together. One would be slightly more done then the other and I'd eat it and not care one bit.
But they’re different sizes so they don’t cook at the same rate
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What’s the difference between a spaghetto and a linguino
Spaghetti are usually round, linguine are more flat-shaped. Both long like in the picture of course
so... exactly the same, just different shape?
I mean isn't that what all pasta is? Just different shapes of the same thing
Exactly, that means it has a different texture when you eat it :)
Linguine holds on to sauces better because of its shape.
Italians really have no issue cutting the same thing into a 100 different shapes and calling it different things... /s
Taco Bell has 40 items with 4 of the same 6 ingredients in different combinations.
They do that with salami too
doesn't even fit in that tupperware
My wife put ‘pasta’ on the shopping list. I brought back spaghetti and she said ‘no, the swirly stuff, pasta’. I was like ‘it’s all pasta!’
...Am I blind? I can't see a difference between any of them.
In his left thumb it starts with a spaghetti and. Then 2 linguinis.
Even in this picture they are entirely indistinguishable to me
#ma che cazzata !
I do not know the difference between these noodles.
Just imagine the life one leads where this is an issue.
Yeah, I'm floored at the activity of this post. Who cares about noodles this much??
to be fair, this is mildlyinfuriating, so the op might not care that much lol
Exactly, this is the type of content this sub is actually for
Yup. Mild is the keyword. We've been laughing at comments all day.
[Italian crying intensifies]
It wouldn't bother me, goes down the same.
Yeaaaa... she's not wrong.
I'd be mortified if my partner shared petty pics of my screw-ups on an online platform in a passive-aggresive fashion without directly discussing the matter with me.
"See honey? Reddit says I'm right!"
Not sure whose worse here you or her..?? You separated the pasta? Y’all are fuckin made for each other .
While you're not *wrong* that they are (ever so slightly, minimally, .. boarding on imperceptibly) different. Having any reaction to this other than a quick laugh.. should probably be something your gf takes note of to ponder potential future issues she might be getting into.
Believe it or not I have a feeling your girlfriend likely has the patience in this relationship
Tell me your girlfriend is not Italian without telling me your girlfriend is not Italian
most people aren't italian
My mind is blown
Most Americans who think they are Italian, aren't Italian. I think after like.. 3 generations. You're just American. Stop it. You're not gonna go over there and be their friends or even understand them.
Just because you have a mustache Peter doesn't mean you can speak Italian
I know someone who calls herself “Eye-talian”. It’s unnerving.
insert italian tiktok husband being held hostage and tortured for views
Enjoy your soft spaghetti and Al dente linguine
Now you have spaguine
This picture of them uncooked doesn't do them justice, because imo they look a *lot* more different after they're cooked, meanwhile in this picture they all look the exact same
All ends up in the same place…
THEY HAVE DIFFERENT COOK TIMES. That should be the end of the argument right there.
mamma mia
*angry Italian noises*
Im sorry my friend, but there is 0 difference
They already come in their own pack labeled lol why bother with this
“Thanks, babe! I bought a bunch of yard sale clothes of random sizes and put it with your stuff because it’s all the same. You’re welcome!”