>Nancy Young writes:
>
>"Bob (this one)" wrote:
>
>> Spaghetti means "little strings" and is a specific shape. It's not the
>> generic name for pasta (which *is* the generic name).
>
>I'm not arguing, of course you're correct, but growing up, if you
>were at an Italian family's house, they might say, we're having
>spaghetti, you want to stay for dinner? You didn't know what you'd
>get could be anything from actual spaghetti to rotelli to lasagna.

I don't think so. Growing up in Brooklyn, all the Italian families I knew
refered to pasta generically (and familiarilly) as "macaronis", in fact I never
heard them use the word 'pasta' except for when refering to the *dough* and the
forming thereof.

>I still say the spiral pasta is much better for bolognese sauce than
spaghetti.

Wouldn't that depend on the magnitude and configuration of ones oral orifice
and how well one twirls? <g>

By spiral I suspect you mean rotini/rotelli (screws)... I equate those with the
pasta used for deli salads, I place them in the same catagory with elbows.
With meat sauce I prefer cut fusilli (little springs).


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