• robolemmy@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    My favorite grocery store sells “pot-ready spaghetti noodles” which are half the length of normal ones. I think Italy’s declaration of war is a foregone conclusion at this point

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      1 month ago

      I mean, who decided that spaghetti noodles had to be that long anyway? What if I go to Italy and start selling spaghetti noodles that are 2m long? When will they admit that its fin to snappa the spaghetta?

      • wieson@feddit.de
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        1 month ago

        It’s harder to pick up broken or shorter spaghetti with a fork. If you break them up real small and make chicken noodle soup that you eat with a spoon - that’s fine. Italians do that as well.

    • skulkingaround@sh.itjust.works
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      1 month ago

      Protip, you can cook regular spaghetti noodles in a big pan. You only need enough water to cover the noodles and it’s way faster than boiling a lake’s worth of water in a pot and doing the whole “try to fold the pasta into the water as fast as possible so it cooks evenly” dance.

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        You can leave them full length with only a third of the length in the water, they quickly soften and slump and the rest can be immersed

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      1 month ago

      Did you know they don’t eat garlic bread in Italy?

      Ergo, “Italian Food” in America is better than food in Italy. They have to take us out as a matter of self defense