She was a child... But what does that have to do with spaghetti anyway?
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Me, on the lookout for fascist nonas, as I break my spaghetti
Uh... Lotta people in not Italy with Italian grandmothers are in not Italy because their Grandma fled fascism.
It's 2025. There's barely a person on Lemmy whose grandma's were more than 15 years old in the early 1940's.
My grandma was born in 1929, grandpa in 1926, so they'd be 97 and 100 next year, and were approaching their 20s in the 40s. But that's just me. I'm not even 40. There are plenty of people on Lemmy over 40, 50, 60. 😛
Most people here are under 40.
Your grandma was only 16 when the war ended, so she didn't do a thing in it.
Most kids are born before their parents turn 30, so for most people who are currently 40 years old their grandparents were too young to fight in the war.
Even if you're grandma was older and your grandparents could have did anything in WW2, you'd still be in the minority for "most people on Lemmy".
Most people here are under 40.
Uh huh, uh huh. But you didn't say that at first.
You said:
There's barely a person on Lemmy whose grandma's were more than 15 years old in the early 1940's.
And I'm saying there's plenty of them. Especially since the older you are, the older your grandparents are/would have been then. And I said I'm not even 40. So for those who are 40 and up, their grandparents would likely have been even older.
I just think you exaggerated a bit in your first take, that's all. And that's fine.
some families just have spread out generations, too. my bio family has 5 generations in the same span my wife's has 4. i'm the second oldest of the grandchildren on my side of the family, my wife is the second youngest of the great-grandchildren on her side of the family.
Sure, but 5 generations isn't exactly an average situation. Maybe not even 4. So on average I still maintain my assumption that there are plenty of people here on Lemmy with grandmothers who were older than 15 during the early 40s. ✅
5 generations in 120 years is unusual?
Your grandma was only 16 when the war ended, so she didn’t do a thing in it.
that's a pretty big assumption. my wife's grandfather enlisted in the navy at 14 during WW2
My Italian grandpa escaped a Nazi camp and brought his wife and my mom to America. Now I need to escape my family back to Italy. Funny how that worked out
hello distant relation i would like to join you on your emigration please and thank you. i promise to buy a large enough pan i don't have to break my noodles
You need to escape your family? What makes your family so terrible?
Gonna guess fascists.
Parading the body of Mussolini through Italy by his ankles.
If it fits in the pan, no break
If it doesn't fit in the pan and you don't have a tall pan, break
If you have a tall pan, and you have no compulsion or impairment preventing you from enjoying full length noodles, get your fucking life together what were you thinking trying to break the pasta like that?
You don't have to break it. Just place it in the boiling pot and slowly push down on the pasta. It starts to go soft faster than you think.
Me too
Full-length noodles are a pretty severe trigger for me, ever since...well. You know.
i thought we didn't talk about that, calvin
If he didn't then we wouldn't know.
I personally don't break spaghetti, but a friend of mine once asked what difference it would make for taste and consistency, and i didn't have an answer.
From the cooking standpoint: none. But it might make a physical difference, since shorter spaghetti are hard to roll up on a fork, and might hold sauce differently.
I have answers for both, Pasta cooks according to thickness, not length. If breaking the Pasta allows it to be submerged entirely, it will only aid it in cooking evenly.
Next break a fucking donut in half and ask if that changes the flavor.
like pasta, i guess it depends on the donut. like, breaking an eclair in half the wrong way so all the bavarian custard falls out. that would make me sad and change the flavor (too much salt)
Yeah, but it feels wrong.
Valid, I'm not gonna tell you how to feel and I want you to do what feels right.
My Italian grandmother taught me to break the spaghetti. Also, my Italian grandfather fought for the Allies in WW1, coming to the US in 1923 the last year before the xenophobic, 1924 anti-immigration bill was passed essentially cutting off immigration. He came with his pregnant sister through many trials on a long boat cruise to re-unite her with her husband who was already living in the US. So by 1940 my Italian grandmother was supporting the US where she had lived for over a decade. Please do not make assumptions about people's Italian grandmothers.
BTW my grandfather was a bit of a bad-ass, he served in the Arditi, Italian shock-troops who specialized in explosives and close quarter combat with edged weapons. He taught me to shoot a rifle when I was 7!
The whole "Italians reacting to people doing food wrong" thing always seemed so performative.
TBF Mussolini was not well liked in Italy and after he died he was not respectfully sent off.
Only because Mussolini fucked up so bad. People typically support a ruler if that ruler could maintain material stability. If Mussolini had been as pragmatic as Franco, he may have lived as long.
Americans love to pull up this kind of bullshit, but it really falls even flatter after 2024. You can't do "nazi bar" rhetoric while you have an unmarked militia disappearing people off the streets and doing fuck all about it
Normalize scrolling past threads unrelated to US politics if that's all you want to post about.
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Broke spaghetti last night while cooking for dinner. I also threw it against the cabinet to make sure it was done cooking.
I have a toddler so cooking "rules" go out the window for laughter.
I also threw it against the cabinet to make sure it was done cooking.
So you don't have a mouth?
I don't. I absorb spaghetti via osmosis.
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The 99% is always batshit. Sanity is only found in the niches.
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