PENMART01 wrote:

> Hmmm, perhaps he was ashamed of his roots... the elbow configuration is as
> Italian a pasta shape as it gets.... pasta extrusion was invented by an Italian
> (its extrusion being the *only* Italian claim to the noodle). The very first
> rendition of a tubular shape was curved, the "elbow". And in fact much
> experimentation over a long time went into developing extrusion methods which
> eliminated that curve so that straight tubes could become possible... the
> straight line being the most unnatural configuration in the universe. The
> Italians are credited with an amazing afinity for developing pasta shapes but
> they did not by any stretch of the imagnation invent the noodle.
> ````````````

No clue Shel. I just know he'd sneer at it. A nice curved
ziti was fine.. a short little elbow was not.
Goomba