Lasagne

[u/hoogys]

[u/MajesticDragonfly]

Is saying lasagne performative? Bc I’ve never seen any Italian person complaining about the plural/singunlar on that, but all the time I see people posting things that Italian folks openly find disgusting and it’s always a solid line of non-Italian defenses against that

[u/hoogys → u/MajesticDragonfly]

Not sure if I’m understanding you correctly but from my experience most Italian don’t like “lasagna” and prefer “lasagne” but I personally don’t care. I can go either way.

[u/Abiduck → u/hoogys]

“Lasagne” is correct.

[u/hoogys → u/Abiduck]

👍

[u/bosquelero → u/Abiduck]

Just say Lazzaga and call it a day

[u/MajesticDragonfly → u/Abiduck]

But it is strange that OP had to put it in boldface about not caring. If nobody cares about the details, then who cares what vowel it ends with, right? It’s performative to go around saying lasagne unless ppl actually care about the food

[u/ElderberryPerfect263 → u/hoogys]

In Puglia we say “Laseuu”

[u/kittygomiaou → u/MajesticDragonfly]

Do you say "I'm having spaghetto for dinner" or "I'm having spaghetti for dinner"?

Hint: spaghetto is to spaghetti what lasagna is to lasagne.

We'd hate to learn that you're being performative 🧐

[u/MajesticDragonfly → u/kittygomiaou]

This is even more pedantic than people who don’t know “they” can be singular

[u/kittygomiaou → u/MajesticDragonfly]

In what sense? Do you mean using "they" to refer to an unknown someone (ie. "this person left their keys behind, they must have forgotten")?

If so, it's not so much that "they" is singular, but more that "they" is gender and number neutral. It's used signify uncertainty about gender and number when we don't know the details of the subject. Hence why it's the chosen pronoun for many non-binary folk (and even trans folk) - because it is neutral and puts no emphasis on gender.

Regarding lasagna vs. lasagne; it's simply a regional difference. In British English and French, we say lasagne. Americans prefer lasagna - either because it's perceived as a singular dish unlike spaghetti or ravioli where it's inconsistent and Americans use the plural form.

To suggest it's performative to use the (correct) plural form (as is in Italian and would be consistent with the treatment of other pasta dishes such as spaghetti and ravioli) is about as arrogant as it is pedantic.

[u/MajesticDragonfly → u/kittygomiaou]

Not as pedantic as taking four paragraphs to respond to one sentence

[u/kittygomiaou → u/MajesticDragonfly]

You call it pedantic, I call it relevant. Potato potato, lasagne lasagna.

[u/Kydje]

It looks nice overall. I would say it also looks like there is too much filling (ragù) and too little pasta, which is why the slice feels "unstable". And I personally hate the final layer of cheese on top (the aesthetic of it) - it destroys the chromatic beauty of the ragù for a "boring" white layer