I hate both of the people in this discussion.
this post was submitted on 06 Dec 2025
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One more than the other?
How about the Italian grandmother in the equation too?
Oh damn, I just made myself hated for asking that now too, didn't I?
There is this nice little book by Alberto Grandi that looks at the history of Italian cuisine and finds out that many of those "old food traditions" were invented after WW2. It's really a great read if you want to talk a look behind this italian food snobbery:
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250227-is-there-no-such-thing-as-italian-cuisine
She was a child... But what does that have to do with spaghetti anyway?
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.
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
Or make your own spaghetti [ o_O or noodles ] fresh.
Cook spaghetti in long cylinder instead, problem solved
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or maybe in a loaf pan? they make one that goes on the burner, right?
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.
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. 😛
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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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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.
They don't taste different when you break them
Me too
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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.
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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!
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.
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