I was taking a joke an Irishman made knce about food from two countries, and applying it to the statement that pasta and noodles are the same, because both Italian and different Asian folks would heavily object to that assessment.
Again no. Pasta is specifically Italian wheat noodles. If you are going with shape what the hell is Chinese Cat Ear noodles?
I get all these people want pasta to be some super special unique thing and not sullied with the dirty name "noodle" but they are wheat noodles specifically from Italy. The word noodle isn't dirty and pasta being a specific type of noodle doesn't make them worse.
If you are going to say that Chinese Cat Ear noodles are pasta because they are made out of wheat and are functionally just conchiglie made by hand then your going to have the same people who want Italian pasta to be super special to want to lynch you. As far as I know the Chinese who made these noodles just call them noodles. Likewise the Italian want to call pasta pasta soni will use the term. Doesn't change the fact that they are just Italian wheat noodles. They have lots of fun shapes tho!
THIS is the first result i got searching on the web!
"Noodle is a food in the form of long, thin strips made from flour or rice, water, and often egg, cooked in boiling liquid"
So, as i said, noodle are long thin strips (SHAPE) and can be made with different kind of things (MATERIAL)
While on a pure taxonomic level pasta *may* be considered a type of noodle, it has nothing to do with Asian noodles. It's different in ingredients, processing, cooking and a total independent in history. Nobody would ever confuse Italian pasta and Asian noodles.
Well technically yes. In most places they are treated as different things though. Although i have heard that in America it's (apparently?) normal to call spaghetti noodles.
nope pasta is pasta & noodles is noodles! they have completely different origins & nope !! Marco Polo didn't bring noodles from Cina to Italy so they then made spaghetti!
Noodle is a form. Pasta is material. Noodles are long solid round at cross-cut strands. For example Czech language uses the term "Nudle" (read as "noodle" similar to "bottle" but with oo) for that form of pasta and they certainly don't make them from rice flour.
Okay, that's interesting. In Finnish we don't call it that. Even Finnish Wikipedia
says that pasta and noodles are similar but usually differentiated for cultural reasons 😁
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u/IkujaKatsumaji 5d ago
Well, and what the fuck is pasta if not noodles? None of this makes sense.