"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Sat, 01 Jul 2006 19:32:32 -0500, Michel Boucher wrote:
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>> "Janet Puistonen" > wrote in
>> newsMApg.126$Ym2.84@trndny05:
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>> > And by the way, what is this "noodles" you refer to? Are you
>> > actually using noodles? As in egg noodles? I have found that
>> > carbonara works best with spaghetti. Preferably thick spaghetti.
>>
>> Yes, spaghetti and yes, thick, not spaghettini. Are spaghetti not also
>> referred to as noodles where you live? We call spaghetti the object
>> "nouilles" in French, but "spaghetti" when it's a dish with spaghetti
>> noodles. Colloquially, we refer to a spaghetti dish as "un spaghetti"
>> or "un spaghet". My mother made a "spaghetti au four" which was an
>> oven-baked spaghetti dish and not a single spaghetti noodle in the
>> oven.
>
> Oh, should I say thanks now? That was as clear as mud.


I understood it all, until we got to "oven-baked spaghetti dish and not a
single spaghetti noodle in the oven."