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Would have been way funnier to make it all "macaroni" or "pasta" and leave one tiny section for "spaghetti", because somehow that's the distinction people make.

In persian "macaroni" is actually the umbrella term for all noodles. So persian macaroni are spaghetti most of the time.

But there are no noodles here, only pasta, noodles are usually in Asian meals

Important western noodles include spatzle and egg noodles!

I'd argue that pierogi/vareniki count too, but I understand if you disagree.

noodles are pasta but pasta aren't necessarily noodles since all pasta is spaghetti, as the meme foretells.

By normal people do you mean the savages that have a palate sophistication of Dhaka's sewage?

Om nom nom let's eat some kroppkaka

I see your boiled potato dumpling and raise to the almighty jacket potato. Yes, that's considered a "meal".

Since gnocchi is pasta spaghetti does that mean that these are pasta spaghetti too?

Why not? And add couscous to it as well, also wheat-based.

*pasta

Yeah, those are all pasta. Spaghetti is all the long noodles.

Meanwhile Americans be like "they're noodles"....

I don't know whether it's a urban legend, but apparently Icelandic has a hundred or so names for snow. We have many specific words for what is important for our survival. πŸπŸ•πŸ€Œ

Here in Sweden the rumor says that its the Inuits who have 100 words for snow.

Fun info about that for meme aficionados: that expression and its various clones are the basis for the general concept of those reusable templates called "snowclones".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowclone

Here in Australia the rumor is that snow is made up by other countries to flex on us!

Yeah but you also have to turn your monitors upside down to read and are constantly living with spiders in your ears.

Same with Inuit. I guess it makes sense when snow is such a dominant part of your life.

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gnocchi is not pasta

There are gnocchi, gnocchetti (small gnocchi) that are pasta. What you know as gnocchi are properly called "gnocchi di patate" in italian, i.e. potato gnocchis

That's the answer, the gnocchi pastas imitate the shape of the potato gnocchi. I also wouldn't really call potato gnocchi pastas, like if I invite people to eat and say I'm cooking pastas, nobody's expecting potato gnocchi. But I think in Italy they're in the same aisle as fresh pastas. The thing is - and op's picture is correct - that italians actually differenciate between different shapes of pasta, for the simple reason that pasta shapes have functional reasons and different shapes correspond to different dishes.

Yes, and it is also incorrect in that normal people call it spaghetti because that makes people discuss the shitpost and remember it fondly

Unless it is, of course.

it is made from potatoes

It's made with potato, but also flour, egg, water... Then boiled in water....Like all pasta.

Gnocchi are a varied family of Pasta in Italian cuisine. They are made of small lumps of dough most traditionally composed of a simple combination of wheat flour, egg, salt, and potato.

Source: Gnocchi on Wikipedia

There's also thin spaghetti and flat spaghetti which are made by satan to deceive us.

Flat spaghetti, known as linguine, are super!

Isn't there some new pasta shape that was specifically engineered to give maximum surface area for which to be coated with sauce?

The only shapes that matter are big, small, and toob. The rest are only distractions.

Yo where's the farfalle at? I love me some bowties

who tf calles noodles spaghetti?

Who tf calls pasta noodles?

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