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[-] Pulptastic@midwest.social 65 points 11 months ago

Ha, the Italian police lights

[-] MrFappy@lemmy.world 34 points 11 months ago
[-] misterundercoat@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

Every knows you have to turn up the heat inside the van until the noodles get soft enough to fold into the trunk.

[-] DNOS@reddthat.com 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Ahhhhhhhhhhh it hurts my heart cant take it all dam you.... u need to heat the car first and THEN I said THEN through the spaghetti in ... 😉 from Italy 🇮🇹

[-] Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago
[-] Sneptaur@pawb.social 68 points 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago

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

[-] Live_your_lives@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago
[-] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 32 points 11 months ago

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

[-] darcy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

cool, but whats the reason?

[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

To let you slurp them and spray sauce all over

[-] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months 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 10 months 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 11 months ago

Easier to pick up, different feeling when eating.

[-] mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 11 months ago

I feel like you gotta spin the fork for days tho

[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Hah, I thought he was loading lumber.

[-] darcy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months 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 11 months 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 10 months 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 10 months 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 11 months 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

[-] Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Much thanks. Joke compreheneds.

[-] pewpew@feddit.it 2 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Sneptaur@pawb.social 2 points 10 months ago

Disowned on behalf of Italia /j

[-] emptiestplace@lemmy.ml 11 points 11 months ago

...is not the word you are looking for

[-] GuybrushThreepwo0d@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago

Insinuate? Defenestrate? Regurgitate?

[-] hglman@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago
[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago
[-] thorbot@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago
[-] coco@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago
[-] Custoslibera@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Zoom

Edit: well this is awkward, I meant to reply to the person that said enhance…

[-] thorbot@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago
[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago
[-] undeffeined@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago

And we're here for the sillyness and goofyness!

[-] nieceandtows@programming.dev 5 points 10 months ago

Holy macaroni!

[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Will you, though?

[-] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 11 months ago

Me too OP :3

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