On 12/7/2020 4:23 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> 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
>
The Thai people running the joint called it a "vermicelli factory" and
for all I know they packaged it up and shipped it off for sale in Italy.

Jill