• Frostbeard@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Norwegian here:

    • Long thin stick - Spaghetti
    • Straight tube - Penne
    • Curved tube - Macaroni
    • Bow tie - Farfarelle
    • Made of potato - Gnocchi
    • Sheet - Lasagna
    • Everything else - Pasta
  • fibojoly@sh.itjust.works
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    7 hours ago

    Good trolling! I’m not even Italian and even I find this infuriating.
    Like, call it pasta if you don’t know the name is. Even my wife knows that spaghetti is a specific type of pasta and not the general name.
    And she might forget the specific names of the Italian kind but you can be sure she is a stickler for specifics when it comes to the Chinese noodles!

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    This plus all the different Italian names for coffee which, as far as I can tell, are mostly just describing the amount of dairy added.

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      6 hours ago

      Well, if the coffee was in different shapes, they would give them all sorts of different names too, even if its the same thing across the board.

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        Starbucks already did it. They welcome all to order their more than 20 oz Venti, their medium Grande or their small Tall. Just don’t pretend words have logical meanings while you drink your $10 burnt coffee.

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      20 hours ago

      Just having bought an espresso machine and reading the coffee types listed…

      Holy shit this is true, it’s like eight types that only vary but dairy or even just the amount of “micro foam” on top.

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      Not only the amount of dairy.

      For Italians, “caffè” is just espresso. Then you have “americano”, which is similar to filter coffee even though it’s usually made by adding warm water to an espresso.

      Then you have “ristretto”, which is a shorter espresso.

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        An americano is indeed an espresso (sometimes double shot) with added hot water. Not Italy specific though, it’s just a different thing than filter coffee - but it’s true that in Italy you can usually get the former but not the latter.

        Some other common coffees: lungo (“long”, an espresso that’s extracted for longer so it’s a bit more “watery”), macchiato (“stained”, an espresso with a bit of milk and foam in it, kinda like an espresso version of a cappuccino), macchiatone (“big macchiato”, halfway between macchiato and cappuccino), corretto (“corrected”, with a tiny bit of liquor, usually grappa or sambuca)

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      See, I would call all those macaroni, that’s the coverall for tube-shaped fork-sized pasta. Spaghetti are the long rounds. Linguine flats. And then all the big guys get their own names, manicotti, ravioli, and just stuffed shells, they probably got a band that ends in a vowel but it didn’t make its way down to me from Grandma.