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- face_melter-3
Why do you call pasta and spaghetti 'noodles' instead of their actual given name? Is Fusilli 'twisty noodles'?
And in turn what do you call actual-factual noodles - Mystical Eastern Edible String?
- Probably to make it a simple as possible for their infantile brains to comprehend. Which why you also see signs during elections that say, 'voting place' ...Continuity
- ... instead of the more complex and sophisticated 'polling station'.Continuity
- We don'ttoemaas
- Checked my pantry. Spaghetti, Fettuccine, Linguine, Penne, Capelli d'angelo, Shanxi, Lo mein, Udon. And some black bean spaghetti that I shouldn't have..garbage
- ..bought. Out of Bucatini, thanks for the reminder lol. But yeah, we don't.garbage
- Black bean spaghetti? That sounds a bit vile.Continuity
- haha, i actually have some of that at home in the cupboard. bought on a whim. sat there for at least a year, unwanted.Nairn
- @face, not sure what you're referring to, you'll never see a box of italian style pasta listed as just "noodles"monospaced
- @cont & nairn Yeah... mine has been untouched. I make a mean gravy, but the black bean spaghetti is probably beyond my powers.garbage
- lol ok, noodle freaks. whatever.face_melter
- I tried the black bean stuff, it’s got a weird rubbery texturescarabin
- unless you go to eat at Noodles & Co. ...sarahfailin