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Default Why vermicielli rather than spaghetti?

"Brooklyn1" <Gravesend1> wrote in message
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> "Yes" > wrote:
>>
>>What's the reasoning to choose one pasta type (for example, sphaghetti)
>>over another (say vermicelli or those elbow things) to serve as the
>>pasta component of a meal? Does the shape really matter to the taste
>>of the dish?

>
> Women tend to enjoy big tubular pasta like manicotti and cannelloni...
> guys seem to have an affinity for small stubby/frilly pasta like mezzi
> rigatoni, gigli, and campanelle... sauce has nothing to do with it so
> long as it's hot and abbondanza!
>
> http://www.barillaus.com/Products/20...-rigatoni.aspx



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Dimitri