I bet, ENBB - did she ever take you to the glorious cheap pizza place Lorelei? That closed last year :((((
― i was a downy lad, and twee (stevie), Friday, 22 August 2014 13:43 (ten years ago) link
I mean, if you added "rice noodles" to the mix, like, rice is my favourite carbohydrate and you adding the amazing of rice to noodles, which is the best thing ever, obviously.
Ha! You making a pun. I meant, "eat with delight" but also, if we're talking about this odd place my friend and I always go to (near the British Museum?), well I could mean "relish" in the bowls of pickled condiments of obscure origin which are amazing on noodles.
― Shugazi (Branwell with an N), Friday, 22 August 2014 13:45 (ten years ago) link
pasta is one of the most efficient means of getting parmesan into my system and that's why i love it
― i was a downy lad, and twee (stevie), Friday, 22 August 2014 13:45 (ten years ago) link
Dayo where do you stand on rice vs. noodle
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 22 August 2014 13:47 (ten years ago) link
Hm I don't know the national origin of soba noodles but I would walk two hours for soba, and def prefer it to 90% of Italian pastas
― faghetti (fgti), Friday, 22 August 2014 13:48 (ten years ago) link
In the end, with rice but is a very hard decision to make
― 龜, Friday, 22 August 2014 13:48 (ten years ago) link
I would have gone with noodles, no question, until I ate all the rice in Taiwan. Still a very hard decision and so I'm just gonna refuse to take a stan(d).
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 22 August 2014 13:50 (ten years ago) link
Choosing rice in the land of beef noodles, interesting
― 龜, Friday, 22 August 2014 13:51 (ten years ago) link
Rice is the greatest starch that exists
― faghetti (fgti), Friday, 22 August 2014 13:52 (ten years ago) link
Not surprising though that an Italian xerox of a Chinese invention loses something in translation and only benefits after going through a process bearing remarkable similarity to the production of particle board
i know that noodles originated from china but to call modern-day italian pasta a "xerox" of chinese noodles is bullshit. there have been a huge number of agricultural and culinary exchanges in the past 500 years in most cases various cultures have adapted foreign ingredients and incorporated them into their own cuisines. i love traditional mexican food but i'm never going to say that other countries using chilis or tomatoes are a sad "xerox". it's one ingredient. similarly peruvian lomo saltado may be an approximation of chinese stir fries but it transcends mere approximation and becomes something else entirely.
― marcos, Friday, 22 August 2014 14:33 (ten years ago) link
300 posts by midnight gmt
― imago, Friday, 22 August 2014 14:38 (ten years ago) link
it's a myth that fresh pasta is better imo, it's too mushy, you lose that al dente texture
no way am i reading this whole thread but i have no idea what terrible pasta experiences have led you to believe that this is true
― call all destroyer, Friday, 22 August 2014 14:38 (ten years ago) link
eh, my in-laws are sicilian and they all pretty much agree with me. not saying fresh pasta is bad by any means, just that it's not necessarily better. i think there are some exceptions with certain pasta types (e.g. various stuffed pastas) but generally i think it's a myth that fresh is better. it's often inconsistent and unreliable.
will agree w/ 龜 xp that chinese noodles may benefit more by being fresh
― marcos, Friday, 22 August 2014 14:44 (ten years ago) link
I guess this is where I feel slightly ashamed that my tongue in cheek post reeled another poster in by the cheek entirely
― 龜, Friday, 22 August 2014 14:46 (ten years ago) link
$20 if it's incredible pasta but $15 seems reasonable for a nice restaurant
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, 22 August 2014 14:47 (ten years ago) link
well sure nothing would be necessarily better if it wasn't made right or cooked right, but it's like very easy to make and cook delicious al dente fresh pasta
― call all destroyer, Friday, 22 August 2014 14:50 (ten years ago) link
i just think fresh pasta tastes better.
― Scary Darey (dog latin), Friday, 22 August 2014 14:52 (ten years ago) link
btw i agree w/lamp, $25 is fine at a good restaurant
― call all destroyer, Friday, 22 August 2014 14:52 (ten years ago) link
my answer to this question is that 99% of the time if i'm in an Italian restaurant I would choose pizza.
― Scary Darey (dog latin), Friday, 22 August 2014 14:53 (ten years ago) link
$15 but I've spent more. Tempted to say I should only spend >$15 in the small cities I've lived. Mid grade Italian restaurant food is the worst, but there seems to be a $$ threshold around here where it becomes a completely different thing.
― Peeking at Peak Petty (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 22 August 2014 14:57 (ten years ago) link
I have an irrational thing against ordering pasta in restaurants because it feels somehow like an overly marked up item, which is silly because all food in restaurants is overly marked up.
― 'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Friday, 22 August 2014 15:00 (ten years ago) link
we have one of those imperia pasta machines & you get really good pasta but it must not be worth the bother since it's been like a decade since we used it
voted $15 but that would only be in exceptional circumstances, great pasta's too easy to make at home to spring for it when out imo
― Euler, Friday, 22 August 2014 15:00 (ten years ago) link
It needs to have some rabbit ragu or some other special ingredient for me to pay mor than 16 or so.
― 'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Friday, 22 August 2014 15:03 (ten years ago) link
I'm more happy paying $15+ if it's stuffed pasta or gnocchi, something besides what (even at good places) comes in a box
― Euler, Friday, 22 August 2014 15:10 (ten years ago) link
but some really wonderful things come in boxes
― Peeking at Peak Petty (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 22 August 2014 15:18 (ten years ago) link
*gets down on one knee*
*restaurant goes silent**olive garden waitstaff gather*
― Peeking at Peak Petty (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 22 August 2014 15:19 (ten years ago) link
*I think, 'thank god the chicken con broccoli was perfect tonight'*
― Peeking at Peak Petty (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 22 August 2014 15:21 (ten years ago) link
there was a multicenturion thread about olive garden wasn't there
it does make me wonder if america wreaks the same godforsaken horrors upon 'pasta' that it does on 'pizza' but tbh the former is probably much more difficult
now i've lobbed that grenade, i'm going to run out amidst your zings
― imago, Friday, 22 August 2014 15:21 (ten years ago) link
I just want to know why they only made the least significant word Italian in 'chicken con broccoli'
― Peeking at Peak Petty (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 22 August 2014 15:23 (ten years ago) link
*calls over shoulder* it's not italian
― imago, Friday, 22 August 2014 15:24 (ten years ago) link
Broccoli is an Italian word
― a spectrum is taunting ur OP (wins), Friday, 22 August 2014 15:25 (ten years ago) link
Think yr projecting
― 龜, Friday, 22 August 2014 15:26 (ten years ago) link
I don't ever mind paying for good meals but I balk at expensive Italian meals.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 August 2014 15:27 (ten years ago) link
Like the worst crimes against pasta weren't committed by my Mum clueless Britishers during the 70s.
― Shugazi (Branwell with an N), Friday, 22 August 2014 15:27 (ten years ago) link
tbf my mum is a terrible woman for the overcooked pasta everything, but I'm not in Britain right now, nor am I seeking to defend its approach to pasta
― imago, Friday, 22 August 2014 15:35 (ten years ago) link
Worst argument I've ever had with my partner was the first and only time we tried making pasta with a machine.
― Scary Darey (dog latin), Friday, 22 August 2014 15:37 (ten years ago) link
Pasta attachment on a kitchen machine is a great way to do it.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Friday, 22 August 2014 15:38 (ten years ago) link
ironically it only came with a single broccolo, xp
― 'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Friday, 22 August 2014 15:59 (ten years ago) link
Broccoli is an Italian word― a spectrum is taunting ur OP (wins), Friday, August 22, 2014 8:25 AM (52 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― a spectrum is taunting ur OP (wins), Friday, August 22, 2014 8:25 AM (52 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
hmmmm, it doesn't seem to work
― Peeking at Peak Petty (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 22 August 2014 16:20 (ten years ago) link
I think I'd pay upwards of $20 for really good rice vermicelli or flat rice noodles, but the menu pic threw me.
― Peeking at Peak Petty (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 22 August 2014 18:39 (ten years ago) link
but I guess rice noodles don't count as pasta
― Peeking at Peak Petty (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 22 August 2014 18:44 (ten years ago) link
I don't care what they say about how pasta should be good on its own and Americans over-sauce theirs. Imo you're NEVER paying for the pasta, you're paying for the all-day-cooked wild boar ragu or rustic bolognese sauce, and there better be sauce.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Friday, 22 August 2014 18:53 (ten years ago) link
For me this is all a distant memory, as I fork in mouthfuls of brown rice with egg and cheese binder.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Friday, 22 August 2014 18:54 (ten years ago) link
30 bucks. i'm not likely to buy $30 pasta any time in the near future, but that's the imaginary expenditure cap for when i don't. crab & urchin, please.
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Friday, 22 August 2014 18:55 (ten years ago) link
http://queenbeecoupons.com/wp-content/upload/2012/08/Never-ending-pasta-bowl-olive-garden.jpg
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 August 2014 19:01 (ten years ago) link
a certain menace to 'the bowl is back'
― i was a downy lad, and twee (stevie), Friday, 22 August 2014 20:48 (ten years ago) link
this thread is painful for me as I have friends who refuse to go to pasta or some noodle-themed restaurants as they refuse to pay money for pasta
― mh, Friday, 22 August 2014 20:50 (ten years ago) link
― faghetti (fgti), Friday, August 22, 2014 8:52 AM (6 hours ago)
Revote!
PICK A STARCH: Pasta/Noodles vs Potatoes vs Rice
― Cindy Operahouse (WilliamC), Friday, 22 August 2014 20:51 (ten years ago) link
this makes me wonder what the most expensive plate of pasta on an a la carte menu currently is
― tao lin commentboxing (nakhchivan), Friday, 22 August 2014 20:56 (ten years ago) link