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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. 😛
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
You need to escape your family? What makes your family so terrible?
Gonna guess fascists.
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!
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?
Full-length noodles are a pretty severe trigger for me, ever since…well. You know.
Parading the body of Mussolini through Italy by his ankles.
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.
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.
Yeah, but it feels wrong.
Valid, I’m not gonna tell you how to feel and I want you to do what feels right.
The whole “Italians reacting to people doing food wrong” thing always seemed so performative.
The 99% is always batshit. Sanity is only found in the niches.
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.
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.
just because your have a toddler doesn’t mean you have to cook like one
Lmfao… Maybe I’m actually 3 toddlers in a trench coat.
this is lemmy where the epitome of cooking is garlic and onions
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.
What if she ain’t Amewican?
Nah. Only Americans have Italian grandmothers.
Man, this meme sure was spot on…
My grandma was a first generation immigrant from Italy and would not have given a shit. I don’t have a strong preference but not everyone wants longass spaghetti.
There’s 37643782 pasta shapes and they all taste good
passive aggressively breaks orzo in half while maintaining eye contact
For people who don’t realize how confusing this would be, this is what orzo looks like:
will probably need some toenail clippers and lots of time
Lots of passive aggressive time
Gonna need a banana for scale
I love trying different pasta shapes. When I was single, I would keep several different types, and when I’d make pasta, I’d mix them up in the same pot. Fun!
Until I got married, and found out that some people are profoundly insulted by mixed pastas. It’s not one of those things that couples discuss before marriage like kids, or which side of the bed they prefer, so it sort of blind sides you when it occurs.
I have also found that many people have strong preferences about shapes, and truly hate some shapes, claiming they taste bad. It’s all pasta, shape shouldn’t matter, but there is no negotiating with these people. Because of this, I seldom enjoy Farfalle anymore.
I’m against mixing because different shapes take different times to get done.
“Tastes bad” is not a good description but different shapes DO have different textures and hold different amounts of sauce. That’s my reason for not mixing shapes, I want one consistent dish
Ooo I’ve never mixed several types but I do enjoy doing penne/fusilli with some spaghetti
You can cut a potato up and cook it the same way yet will taste different per sise and shape.
not everyone wants longass spaghetti
I bet long ass-spaghetti is someone’s fetish, though 🤷
I miss that brand of spaghetti where each spagetto is a metre long, the box is half a metre long and they are all folded in half, and if you’re not careful with the box you will snap them in half.
To me, breaking spaghetti is just a big sign that someone is a novice at cooking. It’s done because the person thinks they can’t fit them in the pot and are too inexperienced to know that the noodles will soften enough in just a few seconds to push them the rest of the way in.
It’s less “My Italian ancestors would be horrified” and more “Do you know what you’re doing? Would you like some help before you ruin whatever dish you’re trying to make?”
Or they just like smaller pieces. I don’t break pasta, but also spaghetti is a pretty shit shape for pasta and it feels like just weak attempt at a noodle more than anything.
I swear, people that cook Italian food just have zero creativity. “Oh I only use two ingredients but they’re quality” is such a lame excuse. “Yea this plate of mediocre pasta costs $25-30 no matter where you go but if you ignore the pho place next door it’s a pretty good deal!” Like, just a bunch of losers who don’t enough going for them so they get all juiced up on being pricks over their mediocre food.
You honestly believe breaking the pasta has a chance of ruining it? Lol
more like a rule of thumb, if they don’t know how to cook the most simple and easiest thing to cook, what else will they fuck up.
horror story, was studying for finals at a friend’s place, and his wife cooking dinner… I know because the first thing I hear is the spaghetti being snapped in half, them she boiled them for 40 minutes before dumping a cold jar of sauce and no cheese… Couldn’t focus on studying, that was torture
Look I’m not one to go around pointing out how people on the internet just tell lies but if this is the story you’re going to use to paint people who break their spaghetti as ignoramuses who not only can’t cook but will actually fuck it up…
his wife didn’t boil anything for forty minutes because there would be no water left well before then
ok, if you want more specific details, she boiled them for like 10, then left them in the hot water soaking for half an hour.
Ah well now I see where breaking the spaghetti is responsible for the problem
I’m itself breaking then isn’t a bad thing, at least not an unforgivable sin, it’s just an indicator of what else will they fuck up.
In our case, it’s a sign that my kids struggle with extra-long noodles. We’re letting them get used to scooping with a fork before worrying about much longer strands.
I can use a slightly smaller pot if I break the spaghetti
“Ruin” lmao also 0 difference to my tastebuds
To me, the breaking of spaghetti is just a thing smug snobs like to use as a call out to make others feel less than.
If someone breaks pasta noodles, who fucking cares? It tastes the same!
I’ve been cooking homemade from scratch pastas for over 30 years. I break the spaghetti if I feel like the dish needs shorter noodles. So no, I know exactly what I’m doing and I don’t need your help.
Ffs… thinking a dish is “ruined” because someone Broke the spaghetti. LMAO!
Fuck the pasta police!
I rarely make homemade anymore and can easily twirl my long noodles without a spoon (wøōp), but don’t give a crap how others enjoy their pasta. So long as those sweet carbs make it in the word hole, all is good.
I couldn’t care less what type of noodles I’m eating in an Italian dish. I care more about the sauce and protein.
Think you meant “couldn’t care less”
Thanks. Fixed.
Exactly! Thank you! Same here. The shape/length of the noodle is entirely irrelevant to the dish, unless it’s a specific thickness of sauce, because then you’d base the pasta noodle on wether or not it can hold the sauce.
Or maybe they have kids who have trouble eating full length spaghetti
Or we’re adults who still haven’t quite figured out how to properly and appropriately wrap long spaghetti around a fork. 30+ years on in life, and I still end up dropping noodles and wearing sauce splatters when I try.
In b4 someone comes along and says sKiLL iSsuE. Yes, it is a skill and it is an issue. It’s also why I prefer rotini, or other small pastas.
In fact I’m starting to think I should just use chopsticks with spaghetti, as I have no problem eating ramen and lo mein that way.
I can eat spaghetti “properly” but it’s also painfully slow. If I’m somewhere in public there’s no way in Hell I’m ordering spaghetti because I don’t want to be eating like 30+ minutes later than everyone else.
I wouldn’t say I eat slow by any means (generally speaking) but it seems like people these days can’t wait to shovel down food fast enough so I’m already at a disadvantage from the start.
Or they want an effortless-to-eat meal, not having to choose between getting all dirty and spending more time rolling the damn pasta on the fork than eating
Then buy differen pasta, maybe? :p
or just break em :p
I have cooked pasta 100s of times and I prefer it broken. Long pasta in annoying when you twirl it on a fork since you get often too much too little.
Also nice that the cooking is standardised so you can test a single pasta and know it’s a representative sample.
And if your pot size is small, it takes a lot longer than a couple of seconds to soften enough to push it in.
