What Is Your Favorite...

[Ambrosious]

pasta?

Vermicelli ranks up there for me. how about you?

 

[Juliangel]

I love any of the cork screw pastas they hold sauce so well.

 

[Beaker]

Spaghetti... no actually No 6 which is a bit thicker than spaghetti

 

[Shylady]

I like those little tiny pasta shells

 

[Ksss]

Manicotti and Lasagna...MMMMMMMMMMMMMM....ooops that's two

 

[Lil-Brandi]

....isn't it lunch time yet?

Does Chicken Parmigan count? It has spaghetti with it!
If not a can of Ravioli or beeferoni will do ok! LOL

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

Okay explain.......

Pasta is pasta is pasta.

At Barrilla (a popular brand here in NYC) for instance, the recipe for the doe is the same - and then run through all the different shapes, boxed up and sold under all the traditional names - Rigatoni, Spigot, whatever......

It all tastes the same. No?

Sure, the shape - aesthetically speaking, physically speaking (how it holds or does not hold sauce) can formulate a preference.

Surely a recipe, where one shape of pasta is preferred - like Lasagna - can play into preference too.

But in the end - we're talking, at any one given restaurant - the same noodles/pasta, the same sauce and a lot of times the same cheese. I mean hey, if you took any one dish and mashed it up to the same constancy - they would all pretty much taste the same - all these different pasta dishes - right?

So explain to me the logical rational behind any preference for these very much alike dishes.

All of which I like by the way.

It has to come down to - what shape of thingy you really want to put in your mouth.

Or it's purely psychological nonsense. Like people who prefer not to eat - green veggies - simply because they might be green. Sure, they'll tell you all day long "they don't like the taste." Well maybe on one or two green veggies - but come on - all green veggies don't taste the same. All don't taste bad. It's the color - they just won't admit it.

 

[Ambrosious]

I admit it, it's the color. Freaks me out. I think the difference for me in pasta is the consistency of the taste. Vermicelli is sooooo tender, and that is what I like in a pasta. Not chewy, definately not crunchy. For example, macaroni doesn't reach that same tenderness, it becomes soggy. Does that help?

 

[Ksss]

But it's the ingredients which makes each dish different. I add venison and sausage to my Lasagna besides the ground beef and use 5 cheeses.

 

[Ksss]

Oops, was gonna say in that last post, you can't taste color, every vegetable has its own unique taste.

 

[Ambrosious]

Yeah, but the thought of eating those colors, don't most things start to turn green when they go bad?

Just kidding, I am a vegatable lover, but the thought above is held by a friend of mine. He's weird, you know, the guy who wants to die having sex? Him!

 

[CelestialBody]

 

[TonyG]

Angel hair or linguine. Done correctly with the right additions (shrimp, clams, etc.). I think it is the perfect pasta for romance.

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

I know people......

Whose side dishes can't touch each other. I know a guy who must put parallel lines in his patted down, half inch high mashed potatoes. I know people who have never tried to eat a whole olive but eat Italian bread dipped in olive oil. I know people who will eat yellow squash but not zucchini squash. They will eat a red apple of any kind - no green or yellow ones.

All this makes no sense to me..... nonsense.

Childish nonsense that is.

The way I look at it is this - for sure, one is comfortable with what one has grown up with - but also - if a large body of people (on this here planet) have been eating some dish for hundreds, even thousands of year - well........

It can't fucking kill ya. It's probably at least - okay. Hell, there's a good chance you will even like it, like all those other people.............

So why not put it in you mouth and try it?

Why not? Psychotic thoughts. That's why.

 

[Hecate]

So why not put it in you mouth and try it?

Because I either am alergic to it (and this is not going to change no matter how many other people will eat it) or because it simple makes me throw up .. and in that case I give a shit if it is for psychological reasons or not, I just don't need to have that!

 

[Merelan]

Kss... when is dinner?

I wasn't hungry, but now thanks to you all, I am rifling through the cupboards and trying to decide what I want.

Hecate, I bet there are several people here who will give you something to try that you aren't allergic too.

 

[Guest]

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

I never puke......

unless it's viral.

Nothing can make me puke by seeing it or tasting it - nothing.

I'm puke-less.

Having fully shared in everything babies do - 3 times now. Working around hospitals in my early days and other (some rather horendous) life experiences.......

I find puking at a gorey movie seen or tasting a strange food - simpley silly.

So for all you Woofer's out there - have at it - puke away.

I love the smell of puke in the morning!

 

[Ambrosious]

Sparky

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[Edited by Ambrosious on 12-07-2000 at 08:45 AM]

 

[KillerMuffin]

So Sparky, how exactly do New York Citiers go about making a doe? I'm vastly interested.

Out here in our version of Manhattan, they make a doe by going out in blaze orange and accidently shooting her. Of course, the game warden, lovely man that he is, confiscates things for such activities. Do you get fined for that in your version of Manhattan?