Thread: Is pasta a noodle and vice a versa.

Originally Posted by patsycat

It's pasta - Would you go to an Italian reastaurant and ask for egg noodle bolognaise? No, you would ask for spaghetti bolognaise. Which is pasta.

I see that as a NO (girls get double 'cos they are shite at footie, but good at pasta and noodle stuff).

4-4.

Very tight...

The powerful midfielder "Cyrille of Arabia" puts the NO in to the lead.

4-5

Half-time.

No. Pasta has egg in it, noodles is boiled/steamed flour paste, with no egg. Ofcourse, you can get Egg Noodles, but these are egg noodles and not noodles.

So therefore, pasta is pasta, noodles are noodles.

Yeah, and all girls swallow.

In Italy, by the time you had got out your phrase book to look up egg noodles they would have cooked you the best pasta that you have ever eaten. And they are made with eggs. U toob is your friend.

Originally Posted by cyrille

Pasta is made from durum wheat and originates, it's widely thought, from Sicily.
Noodles are made from rice flour (usually) and originate from China.

What sort of remotely sensible person would think when they're eating a cup of 'Mama' that it's pretty much the same thing as Spaghetti Carbonara?

Having done some research on this it seems that in the US they refer to spaghetti as noodles but, let's be honest, the day we start following the lead of Americans in things gastronomic will be a cold day in hell.

Or maybe we should be copying Thai and calling orange juice 'orange water', fish sauce 'fish water' etc. After all they contain water so they're pretty much the same thing, eh?

Counterpoint.
Historically, throughout Asia, noodles or noodle-types have been produced from every considerable flour one might think of [grains, legumes, tubers, plants, etc]. Including wheat......when Europeans were hanging from trees.

Asia Minor and Major, actually [Central Asia, ME]
And [again] diffused to the lower European civilisations [like everything].

No reason to spin a make-believe Eurocentric model upon influence and contributions - as it ain't true. Falacy.

Originally Posted by patsycat

In Italy, by the time you had got out your phrase book to look up egg noodles

...which is why you would ask for Pasta, no?

Originally Posted by david44

I'm with harry on this I like both but I grew up with duram wheat Italian pasta that was yellow/brown or black if squid ink

Originally Posted by pseudolus

No.

Originally Posted by Kurgen

Yeah, and all girls swallow.

Put that at 5-7

Could go to penalties

In all the excitment, I forgot to add my own view.

Pasta and noodle are as one.

6-7

Define Noodle = Nudel german 18th century,

^Yaso unsure. Will mark that down as a NO...

6-8

Originally Posted by Bogon

^Yaso unsure. Will mark that down as a NO...

6-8

Dumbfuckery is being counted?
Shame...

Noodles is poof

Originally Posted by Bogon

7-8

Extra time

Erm...

You can have 7-9 with that post. Full of insight, and you explained the perception of pasta using the discourse of Western culture in an appropiate manner.

7-9

Some of the people are on the pitch. They think it's all over.

COZY fan tutti frutti

Originally Posted by david44

COZY fan tutti frutti

Through the madness of david44 I count that as a no (for some reason)

I hereby delare that pasta is not a noodle and vice a versa

7-10 to the naysayers

GAME OVER.

But, what about the known fact that pasta came to Italy from China all those hundreds of years ago.

Who cares, noodles are noodles and pasta is pasta. And they all taste great if you can make a good Carbonara with them.

Originally Posted by patsycat

But, what about the known fact that pasta came to Italy from China all those hundreds of years ago.

The known "fact" as you put it is bullshit.

You would have to be fairly dim to think that various ancient western civilizations who subsisted primarily on a grain based diet didn't manage to independently come to the conclusion that you can mix flour with water (or egg) and steam or boil it......

Originally Posted by Necron99

various ancient western civilizations who subsisted primarily on a grain based diet

Tell that to a paddy!

Pasta is pasta. Noodles are pasta too. Am I too late?

Originally Posted by Necron99

The known "fact" as you put it is bullshit.

You would have to be fairly dim to think that various ancient western civilizations who subsisted primarily on a grain based diet didn't manage to independently come to the conclusion that you can mix flour with water (or egg) and steam or boil it......

It's an absurd 'argument' isn't it.

Like people in Sicily would have been nonplussed about what to eat and how to eat it without the previous 'example' of a place that might as well have been on a different planet.

That 'theory' opens up the possibility that fish and chips is from fucking mars.