Talk:Spaghetti

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In my experience, in the U.S. (and elsewhere), among lay people (i.e., not manufacturers, salespeople or chefs), "spaghetti" refers to a dish prepared with spaghetti pasta (often referred to as spaghetti noodles) rather than the pasta alone. The typical lay person would say something like, 'Pick up some spaghetti noodles, tomato sauce, and garlic so I can make spaghetti for dinner." I think this use of the word should be made clear if somehow a reference can be found. Kdammers (talk) 15:56, 26 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Isn't that common for many foods? If I say we're having salmon or meatballs or orecchiette for dinner, I'm not saying that they'll be served uncooked or plain. --Macrakis (talk) 17:49, 26 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The salmon and meatball examples are not comparable (I don't know what orecchiette is). A spaghetti dish is not just cooked noodles/pasta; it involves a whole set of other ingredients, that some might even consider more important than the wheat product. Kdammers (talk) 00:33, 1 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"Go to the supermarket and get me four boxes of spaghetti, 4 boxes of macaroni, 2 boxes of angel hair, and two boxes of rotini; pasta is on sale this week." Drsruli (talk) 06:53, 5 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Kdammers: spaghetti originated in Italy as a TYPE of pasta; your experience in the United States isn't relevant to this discussion, since for millions of Americans spaghetti and meatballs and spaghetti bolognese are typical Italian dishes... JacktheBrown (talk) 21:03, 7 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The history section needs to be expanded

The history section needs to be expanded (it.wiki article: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti). JacktheBrown (talk) 03:35, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sparghetti

The whole "sparghetti" section is highly questionable, especially when it claims the term was used in Italy since around 1845. The word sparghetti clearly derive from an English mispronunciation of the Italian "spaghetti" and, as evidence of this, the only sources provided to support this claim are 19th century English publications. The word has never been used in Italy (as incorrectly reported) and is not found in any Italian-language sources.--Sid-Vicious (talk) 22:54, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, the 'sparghetti' sources are dubious. It looks like some early cookbooks transcribed it as sparghetti, not an unusual occurrence for food items. Only a single recent publication -- by an English-speaker who specializes in the English language -- seems to be saying anything about the word ever being used in Italian or being 'retained' in Italian, we've got a second Italian-speaker saying this is dubious, and the article at it.wiki doesn't mention sparghetti at all. I think we'd need much better sources than we're using to include this content. At best this seems like trivia. Valereee (talk) 11:15, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]