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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you don't put small holes in the bubble wrap pasta, you could make a fun kind of pasta that explodes while cooking, sending boiling water everywhere and burning everyone in the kitchen

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Alternatively if you can really make the pasta gather an internal sphere of liquid, just cook it in sauce and it could actually be amazing.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (3 children)

"sheet of lasagna noodle" I'm sorry but what did you just call it? I can understand calling spaghetti a noodle, at least it is noodle shaped but lasagna sheets!?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

In America, everything is noodles for some reason.

I assume french fries are also a kind of noodle to them

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What else would you call it?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Are you serious? "pasta", "lasagna sheet", "lasagna". Literally anything that isn't a completely different shape. Hell, calling it "lasagna paper" makes more sense than calling it a noodle... Do you yanks have the term "noodle shaped"? If you do how do you grapple with that and calling pasta of completely different shapes "noodles"? Is this a pool noodle in the US? A lasagna sheet is as far as you could possibly get from a noodle when it comes to carbohydrate food items.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

One more question because this is honestly baffling to me: Is gnocchi also noodles in the US? How about ravioli? And what about pierogi and other dumplings?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

None of those are noodles. And to be fair, I thought the part you were objecting to was "sheet" not "noodle". I guess I was skimming too fast. I agree lasagna sheets are not noodles!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Is ziti or penne a noodle? Or macaroni? How long and skinny does it have to be to count?

[–] kartoffelsaft 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Gnocchi I wouldn't personally call a noodle but if someone did I wouldn't call them out on it. Hell, I probably wouldn't even notice.

Ravioli is definitely a noodle. Not the stuff inside, though.

Pierogi is a similar story to ravioli, even if it feels less "noodle"y to me.

Other dumplings it depends. Chicken & dumplings' dumplings for example definitely aren't, as that's usually leavened (and even when the aren't they're still quite bread-like). Bao isn't for similar reasons. Gyoza if steamed/boiled is again like ravioli, and I'd still describe it that way if pan-fried but only because of it's resemblance to boiling it.

Point is, the american english definition of noodle, or at least how I use it as an american, is boiled, unleavened dough. When you see americans refer to some food as a noodle it's more often a textural distinction, not a shape one (even if most would consider noodles to have a canonical shape, which is why the OP feels the need to clarify sheets).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Ravioli is definitely a noodle.

A godless folk.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I learn something new about the American dialect everyday. Thanks

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Tbf, this is probably regional. I'm in the Midwest and noodle has always been limited to long string like pasta. Everything else is pasta.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

That’s a pool lasagna

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I think they mean cannelloni cases

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

As far as I know, the worst type of pasta that exists is the long macaroni. They're awkward to eat and you can't slurp then in like spaghetti because the hole in the middle lets air through.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bucatini? Yeah, fuck that shit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was gonna say that's bucatini. I like bucatini though, except for how long it takes to boil.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Bucatni is the basic version of the Oct 4 suggestion, evil.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

You're meant to break ziti or candele, you don't cook them as if they were spaghetti

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I was already ready to be irrationally outraged at calling pasta "noodles", but then I read the word "y'all's"

[–] Hexarei 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Y'all'd'nt've noticed the word if you were from a place that uses words like "y'all'd'nt've"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Is that actually used in some places? 😳

[–] Hexarei 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's absolutely used aloud, though we don't usually write it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, rednecks can't write.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OHnFheqTTdg

Unfortunately, I can't find the "usetocould" one!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Probably not common to spell it out like that, but yeah I don't see any reason why it's something that people wouldn't say

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

ikr, clearly they meant: all y’all’s

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Alcuni di questi sono veri e propri crimini contro l'umanità

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I don’t know Italian but I can understand that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Crimini mushrooms against humanity?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Some of yall have never had a soup dumpling apparently.

Also my pitch is just a big solid sphere of pasta dough. Good luck cooking or eating that.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Violates the challenges' restrictions

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Soup dumplings are fantastic.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Shit went off the rails on complexity haha

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Barbed wire farfalle!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Tessaract pasta. You have to transcend reality to eat it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I like the bowl one, but in order for it to be the worst it needs to never fit the bowl you’re using. Too wide so it wrinkles and doesn’t sit right, too tall ao the upper edges get cold and dry out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Not much of one for cooking, but that coax pasta with cheese filling sounds like good eating!