r/foundsatan • u/needMore_SleepTime • 2d ago
Breaking spaghetti in front of a Italian be like 🇮🇹
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u/Hidesuru 1d ago
Can anyone please explain to me why the hell this matters? Or is it really not a thing and JUST an Internet meme?
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u/Terrin369 1d ago
I mean, it isn’t THAT huge of a deal, but spaghetti isn’t meant to be broken. It is the length it’s supposed to be. For Italians, food is a big part of the culture, and that includes the eating experience. Breaking the spaghetti in half changes the experience. I can’t explain it but short spaghetti noodles don’t feel right in the mouth.
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u/TwinkiesSucker 1d ago
short spaghetti noodles don’t feel right in the mouth.
You sound like my ex
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u/notoriouszim 1d ago
I think the big thing is that long noodles can be wrapped around the fork more completely and are less likely to fall off. In addition to that, longer noodles means more sauce adhesion per bite. If the noodles are short you end up with more sauce in the bottom bowl at the end instead of in your mouth.
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u/Hot_Statistician_466 1d ago
It's like eating a burger with a fork and knife. You can do it, but it's a different vibe from having it in your hands like a proper caveman
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u/Loose_Acanthaceae201 1d ago
It seems very common for people to cook pasta in general but spaghetti in particular using a pan that is too small, and not enough water. That makes spaghetti cook unevenly, clump together, and/or go gluey.
As a rule of thumb, allow 1L per 100g dry pasta (or 1¼ gallons per pound, in eagle units).
Often people are breaking up the spaghetti so it will fit in the pan. If the pasta doesn't fit in the pan, please use a bigger pan.
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u/Manjorno316 1d ago
I'm gonna go ahead and say that I've eaten plenty of broken and not broken spaghetti and the experience is the exact same.
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u/Disastrous_Button440 1d ago
You have angered the entire Italian nation. They will send you messages of disapproval, along with excessive handwaving and The Worlds Best Pasta recipe which has been perfected for longer than the US has existed as a country
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u/Careful-Bother5915 1d ago
I don't wanna sound spry, but what culture isn't food a big part of? I don't see shorts of japanese people loosing their shit over sushi, turkish peiple loosing their shit over kebab or mexican people loose their shit over a taco.
Again, not arguing with you here, it's just cringy af behaviour to see grown men trip over broken pasta
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u/ulfric_stormcloack 14h ago
The spaghetti comes already in the right size for what it's supposed to do, they are a vessel for the sauce, which is better carried with longer noodles, it's also easier to roll on the fork to prevent it from dropping
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u/Hidesuru 12h ago
See you're really gonna hate me but I haaaate rolling pasta. No matter what you bloody do there's always hangers on and you end up having to maneuver it into your mouth or get sauce on your chin lol. I just cut the shit up in the bowl and go to town. I end up with the same sauce to noodle ratio because I'm finishing the bowl, so I ate whatever ratio I spooned into it in the first place.
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u/ulfric_stormcloack 6h ago
Well that's why there's different kinds, spaghetti are specifically made for rolling, but you can get one that fits your taste better
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u/jkurratt 1d ago
When I was a boy my mum always used to break spaghetti and overcook them in not-enough water.
This is how my evil cooking side rises.
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u/AlexDavid1605 1d ago
Recently came across a YouTube shorts and supposedly the length of the spaghetti is a necessity because it helps the sauce to stick to it. I really didn't understand how longer noodle length helps the sauce but apparently it happens because you are supposed to swirl your spaghetti and the swirling helps create a zone where the sauce cannot find a way to drip out of the spaghetti.
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u/Hidesuru 1d ago
Thanks. I don't personally think it makes a noticable difference but at least that makes some sense to me!
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u/Careful-Bother5915 1d ago
I'm so over the "my italian husband is sensitive about pasta" trend, for real. It's so not endearing.
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u/Th3Glitch510 1d ago
Italian here
Don't feed the stereotype, peeps, I don't even like spaghetti lmao
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u/that_relevant_guy 1d ago
Don't really care for "standards" like these. I know that most of these clips are scripted, but everyone has different ways of eating. For some people who have oral issues which make noodles a pain to eat, breaking noodles into smaller bits is exactly what makes the meal comfortable and enjoyable. As someone who cooks for my family and has such a family member, I'd rather cook food in a way that the served people can enjoy their meal than sticking a stick up my ass and holding to pretentious standards.
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u/BloodyPaleMoonlight 1d ago
They actually sell boxes of smaller lengths of noodles now, so people could buy those rather than break pasta.
I know because my dad gets those.
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u/JackEleczy 1d ago
Sorry. But WHY would you break spaghetti? They‘re literally the exact right length!
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u/Gloomy-Music-718 1d ago
Tell that to the pot makers
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u/ulfric_stormcloack 14h ago
By brother in Christ spaghetti gets soft after a few seconds in hot water, just push it in if it's taking too long for you
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u/npdady 1d ago
Really, why are Italians so extra when it comes to their food?
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u/Amyhime801 1d ago
Italian here: it's quite bothersome picking up broken spaghetti from the plate. You can't roll them around the fork properly. It's maddening XD
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u/npdady 21h ago
Is it a taboo to use a spoon? Just curious. I'm Asian, I eat with chopstick and spoon. So for small bits of noodles I can't pick up with my chopstick I usually just push into my spoon.
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u/Amyhime801 15h ago
Yes, absolutely. Spoons are for soup, yogurt, liquid food. Not for pasta. It's weird, for me, thinking about eating spaghetti with a spoon 😅
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u/Amyhime801 15h ago
Yes, absolutely. Spoons are for soup, yogurt, liquid food. Not for pasta. It's weird, for me, thinking about eating spaghetti with a spoon 😅
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u/npdady 15h ago
But sauce is liquid though... Haha.
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u/Amyhime801 15h ago
Yeah, but sauce remains attached to the pasta. There are ads which focus exactly on the pasta texture, claiming that it holds the sauce better. Plus, we have a tradition, called "scarpetta" (little shoe, I don't know where the name comes from). At the end of the meal, you use bread to clean the plate from the sauce that you missed when eating.
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u/ulfric_stormcloack 14h ago
But you don't drink sauce, it's just part of the dish, at most you use bread to get it, but a spoon?
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u/BrokeGamerChick 1d ago
Finally a video to prove I'm not the only angry Italian girlfriend out there. GAH
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u/CancelPretend5626 1d ago
Yeah its not staged at all, those are honest reactions and they didnt know they were filmed..
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u/theblackoctopus23 1d ago
Send in your fake vids I'm putting together a team.