On Tuesday, September 1, 2020 at 8:59:14 AM UTC-10, Pamela wrote:
> On 18:29 1 Sep 2020, dsi1 said:
>
> > On Tuesday, September 1, 2020 at 4:46:32 AM UTC-10, Pamela wrote:
> >> On 15:33 1 Sep 2020, Cindy Hamilton said:
> >>
> >> > On Tuesday, September 1, 2020 at 9:53:23 AM UTC-4, Gary wrote:
> >> >> Pamela wrote:
> >> >> >
> >> >> > For what it's worth, spaghetti with garlic bread is a folly.
> >> >> Oh please spare us. For a cooking group, we sure do have more
> >> >> than our share of finicky tastes.
> >> >
> >> > Spaghetti with garlic bread is delicious. It's just not good for me
> >> > to eat so much carb.
> >>
> >> Howdo you physically eat spaghetti with garlic bread? Maybe you mean
> >> cut up spaghetti, which I don't consider spaghetti at all.
> >>
> >> American spaghetti with meatballs is bad enough
> >>
> >> > Lately I've been having cauliflower florets with spaghetti sauce on
> >> > them.
> >> > Tasty and righteous.
> >> >
> >> > Cindy Hamilton
> >>
> >> What's "spaghetti sauce"?
> >
> > In the US, one can buy cans and jars of spaghetti sauce. It must be
> > quite a competitive market because spaghetti sauce occupies much shelf
> > space in the supermarkets. One can even buy Filipino spaghetti sauce in
> > plastic bags. I've never tasted it but it's supposed to be very sweet.
>
> Okay, that's an new Americanism for me. It would have been clearer if it was
> called "pasta sauce" because that's reflects its use. That explains why
> Cindy equated it with "sugo".
>
> > Americans like to eat spaghetti with meat sauce and garlic bread. In
> > Hawaii, you might also find a scoop of macaroni salad. The Filipinos
> > like to eat their spaghetti with fried chicken. The people on this rock
> > have adopted this Italian-American, Filipino, Hawaiian, mash-up in a
> > single plate.
>
> I know Americans have a dish of spaghetti with meat balls but surely not
> garlic bread. I guess anything's possible in a country that eats surf and
> turf.
>
> > https://www.zippys.com/wp-content/up...Spaghetti-and-
> > Chicken-Mixed-Plate-Clipped-01.png
>
> Pasta and chicken is a standing joke amongst Italians. They consider it as
> bad as pineapple on pizza -- oops!
>
> https://lucasitaly.com/2018/11/28/wh...chicken-pasta/

My son ordered some pizzas the other day. It was chicken with American style barbecue sauce and cheese. It's a popular pizza with the younger generation. I didn't have any because I wasn't hunger enough. I was hungry, just not enough. My guess is that the Italians would just plotz.