Talk:Pasta

Latest comment: 9 days ago by Girth Summit in topic Noidles
Former good articlePasta was one of the good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
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Semi-protected edit request on 23 July 2023

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The Wikipedia article on Cascatelli pasta might be nice to mention in this main article, as it is a modern shape (2019) specifically designed to have certain performance characteristics. It could go in the Science section, for example. Mjtheisenusa (talk) 15:49, 23 July 2023 (UTC)Reply

  Not done - the format for proposing a change in the article is to give "a complete and specific description of the request, that is, specify what text should be removed and a verbatim copy of the text that should replace it. "Please change X" is not acceptable and will be rejected." Zefr (talk) 18:26, 23 July 2023 (UTC)Reply

Source 22 seems unreliable

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Inmamaskitchen.org (original website, see https://web.archive.org/web/20120331135946/http://www.inmamaskitchen.com/FOOD_IS_ART/pasta/historypasta.html for archived website) may not be a source that is reliable (it doesnt seem to have any sources itself), if possible someone should find a different source for this information if at all possible (Maybe citation needed may be better?) Rocksok (talk) 17:45, 16 October 2023 (UTC)Reply

Guinness World Record

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I would like to add info about the longest "sfoglia" (fresh egg pasta) ever made but I cannot edit the page. Adry0104 (talk) 11:20, 22 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Adry0104: in my opinion, it isn't necessary to add this record. JacktheBrown (talk) 05:57, 23 April 2024 (UTC)Reply
I agree with JackkBrown. This is a trivial record not worth mentioning on Wikipedia. Someone could easily build a machine that could produce a strand of pasta of unlimited length. Who cares? Cullen328 (talk) 06:05, 23 April 2024 (UTC)Reply
ok! Adry0104 (talk) 14:29, 23 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Noidles

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Please add a “see also: noodles” link to this article.

Reason: pasta seems to be a subtype of noodles. For a reader interested in the food type in general but not exclusively the Italian variety this cross-reference would make sense. 2A02:2121:61E:7387:D91F:52C9:6E0E:27DF (talk) 08:51, 8 November 2024 (UTC).Reply

The question of whether pasta is a subtype of noodles has been discussed extensively here - see the archive. That said, I would object to a 'see also' link, since the two subjects are obviously related. Girth Summit (blether) 09:20, 8 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
Same vibes as aluminium vs aluminum :P Sirocco745 (talk) 09:21, 8 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
Yeah, I think there are regional variations in how the words are used. For me, a noodle is a long stringy thing made of dough. Spaghetti is probably a type of noodle, but I don't think lasagne would qualify. Noodles are one of the things that you can make with pasta, and pasta is one of the things that you can make noodles out of - they're intimately connected, but one isn't a sub-type of the other. Girth Summit (blether) 16:59, 8 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
"Noodles and pasta are actually two very different things": [1]. Other sources: [2]; [3]; [4]; [5]; [6]; [7]; [8]; [9]. JacktheBrown (talk) 13:42, 10 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
Nah. Diorite and souffle are two very different things. Noodles and pasta are two very closely related things, so closely related that a great many people conflate them, but I agree with you that they aren't quite the same thing, and one is not a subset of the other. Girth Summit (blether) 00:55, 11 November 2024 (UTC)Reply