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[-] Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago
[-] Sneptaur@pawb.social 68 points 1 year ago

Italians get mad when you snap your pasta in half before cooking. The noodles are long for a reason.

[-] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 1 year ago

Thank you for this comment, I didn't get it and now feel dumb for not noticing the green, white, red police lights. That's amazing.

[-] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

I thought it was the Mexican flag. Doesn't help that a lot of Mexican people do construction. I was confused too.

[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Hah, I thought he was loading lumber.

[-] Live_your_lives@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago
[-] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 year ago

To make you snap them to fit the pot so Italians can get mad at you.

[-] darcy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

cool, but whats the reason?

[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

To let you slurp them and spray sauce all over

[-] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

When I get a plate of spaghetti the first thing I do is take my knife and fork and slice slice slice until the noodles are all short little bits that mix nicely with the sauce and are easy to pick up with the fork.

Fuck tradition, give me practicality.

[-] theneverfox@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago

You're a monster. Why not just put them in the blender and chug your spaghetti?

But seriously though, I don't get how it's at all more practical - if you twirl the noodles you can get a nice bite of whatever size you want, and you don't have to worry about it falling off your fork like you do if they're short. You can get just the right amount of sauce bound up in the noodle bundle by pulling it in the sauce or outside it too

I'm not Italian and it has nothing to do with tradition - I must've been 4 when I yelled at my mom for snapping the noodles so they fit in the pot because they'd be less twirly... Literally the only influence on this was my grandma teaching me that Italians use a spoon to help twirl the noodles... I never got the spoon nonsense down, but by pulling the noodles up or dipping them in the sauce, you easily get the perfect mouthful of anything from buttered linguine to spaghetti and meatballs to noodles in white or red sauce that I'm not a big fan of

It's just so much less pleasant from every angle when you break the noodles -texture, convenience, just plain fun factor

It's not even much harder to cook, you take boiling water and you just push the noodles into it until they go under - as long as you wait for the water to boil first, it doesn't take any more effort or longer

/rant

[-] Damage@feddit.it 8 points 1 year ago

Easier to pick up, different feeling when eating.

[-] mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

I feel like you gotta spin the fork for days tho

[-] darcy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

they love to enforce their preferences onto others just because their ancestors did it first (or second if you count asia)

[-] Strykker@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

I'm not Italian and I'll fight anyone who tries to make spaghetti by snapping the noodles in half.

[-] darcy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

why? u arent the one eating it. i have a small pot and dont wanna wait around for the pasta to go soft so i can bend it. also dont have to twirl the fork for 10s each time

[-] Anamnesis@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Breaking it in half is the objectively better practice. Cooks faster and more evenly, doesn't require ages to twist on a fork. Better in literally every way.

[-] DNOS@reddthat.com -1 points 1 year ago

We don't enforce our ideas it's just that our old ancestors tryed everything and hardly found the best way to do it ... we are just highly suggest it 😉 btw we would love everyone else to highly suggest a working economic politic

Much thanks. Joke compreheneds.

[-] pewpew@feddit.it 2 points 1 year ago

What? I'm italian and I do it every time i have to cook spaghetti

[-] Sneptaur@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago

Disowned on behalf of Italia /j

[-] emptiestplace@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

...is not the word you are looking for

Insinuate? Defenestrate? Regurgitate?

[-] hglman@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago
[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
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