On Monday, December 7, 2020 at 3:50:11 PM UTC-5, wrote:
> On 12/7/2020 3:45 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > On Monday, December 7, 2020 at 3:14:04 PM UTC-5, wrote:
> >> On 12/7/2020 2:48 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >>> On Monday, December 7, 2020 at 2:10:25 PM UTC-5, Sheldon wrote:
> >>>> On Mon, 7 Dec 2020 06:20:59 -0800 (PST), "
> >>>> > wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> I do like linguini and fettuccine, and even spaghettini. But my favorite is still Spaghetti.
> >>>>> I like it very al dente and simple. With homemade marinara sauce, tomato sauce with
> >>>>> parmesan cheese, or even more simple. The spaghetti tossed with butter and a bit of
> >>>>> salt and black pepper. A touch of nutmeg in there is also nice.
> >>>> My favorite pasta is medium shells because it can hold sauce well and
> >>>> I can eat it with a spoon. I never enjoyed long pasta twirled on a
> >>>> fork, messy and always leaves all the sauce in the dish. I do like
> >>>> ravioli but somehow I never considered it pasta, it's more about the
> >>>> filling. I also much prefer orzo to rice... I think of rice as
> >>>> communist asian belly filler, rice contains zero nutrition.
> >>>
> >>> Both white pasta and white rice contain so little nutrition (apart from calories),
> >>> it's not worth making the distinction.
> >>>
> >>> Cindy Hamilton
> >>>
> >> I don't eat a lot of pasta. Or rice. Occasional exception is mac &
> >> cheese. Spaghetti, linguini... one is round, the other is flat. Both
> >> are long.
> >>
> >> Ravioli made from scratch is too labor intensive for me. I have a
> >> friend whose 95 year old Italian mother made Lobster Ravioli that was to
> >> die for. Sheldon wouldn't eat that either, because lobsters can live to
> >> great ages unless we mortals with traps consume them. I think he just
> >> doesn't like crustaceans (other than clams, Manhattan chowder).
> >>
> >> A few folks mentioned vermicelli. I have to say I'm put off by the
> >> memory of visiting a vermicelli factory in Bangkok in 1969. It was a
> >> school field trip. OMG, the place stunk to high heaven. There were a
> >> lot of women hanging vermicelli out to dry on clotheslines. Can't get
> >> past the smell memory.
> >>
> >> Jill
> >
> > The vermicelli to which I referred is just a shape of the same pasta
> > that is spaghetti, linguini, elbow macaroni, etc. If you were presented
> > a plate of vermicelli with your favorite sauce on it, you'd never
> > know the difference.
> >
> I'm pretty sure I would.

Ridiculous. If nobody told you what it is, you'd think it was skinny spaghetti.
Which is what it is. It's the exact same dough extruded through a die with
smaller holes.

> > Nothing to do with what happened in Bangkok in 1969. That wasn't,
> > strictly speaking, even vermicelli, despite what it may have been called.
> >
> > Cindy Hamilton
> >
> Whatever. All I know is it was long threads of noodles and they stunk.
> Maybe vermicelli made in Italy in 1960 didn't also stink. <shrug>

"Vermicelli" is an Italian word. The fact that white people have applied
it to skinny rice noodles doesn't mean squat, except that white people
have trouble pronouncing Asian languages. The noodles that you
think of as "vermicelli" are called S̄ênh̄mī̀ in Thai and "mai fun" in
Chinese.

Cindy Hamilton