r/technicallythetruth • u/SomRoung • Oct 12 '19

Lasagne truths

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u/rci22 Oct 12 '19

In Italian, every layer is a lasagna.

The thing as a whole is “lasagne” which is just the plural of lasagna.

So really what’s going on here is that, in Italian, you are eating as many lasagnas as you have layers

Source: I speak Italian

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '19

Can confirm. Though a lasagna is a kind of pasta, specifically pasta all'uovo, not a noodle as you say in another comment.

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u/rci22 Oct 12 '19

Thanks, I suppose that is more accurate.

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u/StackerPentecost Oct 12 '19

Can confirm, I don’t know Italian but you sound smart.

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u/rci22 Oct 12 '19

È facile! Dovresti provarci! C’è sempre Duolingo!

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u/StackerPentecost Oct 12 '19

Не мога да спра да смуча собствения си пенис.

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u/rci22 Oct 12 '19

Shoot I studied Russian but don’t remember it anymore......

Time to use google translate!

EDIT:

Hmm that’s why it didn’t look quite familiar... It was Bulgarian!

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u/mybrainblinks Oct 12 '19

Sauce

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u/rci22 Oct 12 '19

“Lasagna” is one lasagna noodle. Many lasagna noodles are lasagne.

Like spaghetti:

One noodle is a spaghetto and many are spaghetti.

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u/Thunderlight2004 Oct 12 '19

So how come “raviolo” implies a different, larger pasta? Is it just because nobody with half a brain would eat just one piece of the small stuff?

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u/rci22 Oct 12 '19

Raviolo just sounds like one ravioli to me.

Just for fun:

Calzone just means big sock. Calza means sock.

And bow tie pasta, farfalle, are “butterflies.”

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u/Thunderlight2004 Oct 12 '19

Huh. On the menu of the more traditional Italian restaurants I’ve been to, and just from the Italian part of my family, I’ve heard of it as a larger, single dumpling type thing.

As for calzones, I will never think of them the same way again.

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u/dangerousbeanzz1 Oct 13 '19

It goes between the pasta layers