On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 09:25:54 -0500, Gary > wrote:

>On 3/2/2021 2:09 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
>> Sheldon Martin wrote:
>
>>> we rarely ate pasta at home... I still much
>>> prefer egg noodles.
>>
>> Egg noodles aren't pasta?
>
>Yes they are. Ask Mario Batali. His recipes for both are the same.
>I always use egg in my pasta and homemade is to die for.
>
>I know that some commercial dried pasta doesn't contain eggs. Inferior
>product, imo.

Most packaged pasta contains no eggs because a lot of people are
allergic to eggs so they won't buy any. Wontons and ravioli contain
no egg for the same reason. Eastern Europeans make wontons and
ravioli with egg, they're called kreploch.