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Would you ever pay restaurant prices for pasta?

>> No.17698021

>>17698013
This term gets thrown around a lot, but paying for pasta at a restaurant is a true "midwit filter". Especially if you rave about olive garden.

>> No.17698039

I will sometimes, if its a particularly good restaurant and they make their own fresh pasta properly
If its your generic family run italian shithole serving par-cooked dried pasta then not a chance

>> No.17698044

>>17698013
I have sometimes but usually end up annoyed when ive had ready meals for a fraction of the price which were much better.

>> No.17698051

>>17698013
>eat the bugs
nope

>> No.17698337

>>17698013
The local italian joint here is a scratch cuisine, the food is delicious (not just the pasta), and it's not more expensive than a shitty chain because their menu is focused. I don't often do because the place is only dine-in, but yeah, I do buy pasta for "restaurant prices"

>> No.17698375

>>17698013
I'm NEVER eating the bugs.

>> No.17698419

i'm in east europe, worked for a week as a dishwasher in a shitty italian restaurant owned by an italian expat, exactly the sort of place where you pay restaurant prices for shitty local pasta. they kept pushing me to "work harder and faster" while the dishes kept piling up near the tiny shitty sink in the corner with a perpetually limited amount of dish soap. the kitchen itself was extremely small, under-equipped as all the money seemingly went to the decor where the peasants eat. i left, they underpaid me, then some time later i became buddies with a group of local leftie communists who would protest against unfair capitalist employers. a lot of them had the same experience working in the same restaurant. one of them started harassing the shitalian owner, then got apprehended by some hired thug to keep things quiet. years later, now the business is thriving in the "country", with multiple spots across our blessed land and some of the best reviews of any restaurant chain.

no, i would not pay restaurant prices for pasta.

>> No.17698446

pasta is like "girl shit test to see how much you will overspend for her" the food

bolognese isn't even good
everything tastes like tomato, wow who cares

>> No.17698455

I was blown away with how cheap the food was in Rome. A top tier pasta dish was 9-10 euros tops. I think the price of Italian food in other countries is inflated due to hype.

>> No.17698458

>>17698446
>bolognese isn't even good
weak bait

>> No.17698465

>pasta
>it's just water and flour
>it comes in different shapes!
>there's a big difference between each shape!
yeah, nice "cuisine", italians

>> No.17698467

Only for stuffed pasta.
Ravioli is a pain in the ass to make.

>> No.17698472

>>17698419
kek
name country and restaurant
maybe I went there

>> No.17698482

>>17698465
You can't do carbonara with bows or cavatelli, you dumbass, and different pasta bring different textures.

>> No.17698483

>>17698465
>tomato sauce
We a have a deepa richa ancienta culture
>they came from the americas in the 1600s

What the fuck did italians eat before tomatoes came? Greek food? Literally everything is wheat and tomatoes and cheese.

>> No.17698492

>>17698458
Beef stew with tubers is better be it eastern yuro with sour cream or french with red wine

>> No.17698498

>>17698013
Do it*lians literally eat bugs?

>> No.17698506

>>17698483
They ate wheat, cheese, seafood, poultry, beef, pork, venison, turnips, garlic, onions, carrots, artichokes, peaches, pheasant, pears, apricots, etc.

Look into Bartolomeo Scappi's Opera dell'arte del cucinare. It's a 1570's Italian cookbook.

>> No.17698515

>>17698482
i'm pretty sure you can boil the little pieces of dough and put whatever sauce you like on them. not that i'm complaining, simple food is best food.

>> No.17698519

>>17698515
Carbonara is made with the pasta water, parm, and egg yolks you don't make the sauce separately and you have to try hard to not make scrambled eggs

>> No.17698528

>>17698519
i've read that spaghetti is best for carbonara, why wouldn't any other pasta work?

>> No.17698537

>>17698528
Dunno I never make it. I only ever do tomato cream sauces and I fucking hate spagettis My old room mate does and you use pancheta or bacon and parsley and egg yolks and parm for it. I guess so the egg gets stuck in the pasta instead of hits the pan and turns into scrambled eggs.

>> No.17698597

YES!!! IF ITS FAZOLI,S

>> No.17698619
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17698619

>Roommate pays me to cook for him
>Saw that I smoked a "chicken" over the weekend
>Asks if I could make him some chicken alfredo
>Give him a non-committal "Maybe"
>Truth is that it was actually a duck
>Now I have an excuse to make duck alfredo
Mother fucker has no clue what's coming.
No homo.

>> No.17698625

>>17698619
>smoked duck alfredo
Please do not do this and make it a cajun style sauce instead. Cajun smoked duck actually makes logical sense.

>> No.17698632

>>17698625
Ooh. Good suggestion.
I'd actually smoked it with a a Cajun honey glaze so this is going to pair nicely.

>> No.17698786

>>17698013
>yes
I'm not poor or an american so I don't eat slop.

Good restaurants serving great pasta exist - why would I deny myself?

>> No.17699590

>>17698013
Expat in Taiwan here, don't ever go to a pasta restaurant in Taiwan. They pretend it's "fancy foreign food" and charge twelve bucks a plate. A typical lunch or dinner here starts at $2.50 and you have to go pretty far upscale to break $8.

Shit's ridiculous, yo.

>> No.17699644

>>17698337
Post the menu

>> No.17699656
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>>17698013
yes, eating out is about camaraderie or family time
don't care about the price of the food
and if you're not getting unlimited soup & salad at olive garden as your entree you're doing it wrong

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>>17698519
>>17698537
>I've never done it and I don't know how but let me tell you how it's done

>> No.17699938

>>17698013
If I'm in a restaurant and a pasta dish takes my fancy, then of course.

>> No.17700002

>>17698013
Are those fucking bugs?

>> No.17700025
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>>17700002
Pretty sure that's gnocchetto.

>> No.17700074

>>17698013
The local Italian joint makes really good lasagnes and tagliatelle dishes, but they do everything from scratch, and don't charge much for pasta. Their bread and butter's stuff like ossobuco and langoustine risotto.
When the club next door was operating like a speakeasy during shut down, Big John was shoveling margherita pizzas and lasagna snackpacks out the pickup window - I don't think he lost more than a week's business.

>> No.17700080

Only if it was made fresh at the restaurant and was a shape that was difficult to source in my area. Obviously it would be low on my list though.

>> No.17700083

>>17700002
you are missing out if you have not tried gnocchis

>> No.17700088

>>17698013
Why the fuck is there sour cream on it?

>> No.17700090

Things with high surface area to volume ratios work best - they cool slightly faster/release heat to thicken the sauce more readily. Angel hair's a little too delicate, but something like conchiglioni's a bit coarse for what's essentially bacon and cheese custard.

>> No.17701370

>>17698013
There has to be alot of meat with it, like Chicken Parmesan or unusually large meatballs.

>> No.17701447

>>17698013
depends on restaurant, the pasta, and the price lol

>> No.17701614

>>17700088
It's ricotta you swine

>> No.17702068

>>17698472
>dishwasher
>"boohoo they underpaid me"
lmao nigger you were a fucking dishwasher, the bottom of the barrel of all jobs, a position that exists solely to occupy teens and mouth-breathing retards (I would know, it was my first job). Expecting to be paid anything but minimal wage as a dishwasher is fucking hilarious.

>> No.17702198

>>17701614
No it isn't, you retard. Ricotta has grains or protein flecks, and it's more cream coloured than this.

>> No.17702342

>>17702198
>>17701614
>>17700088

Its burrata

>> No.17702590

>>17702342
correct. I bathe in the ignorance of these swines.

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17703441

>>17702590
FIRST TIME YOU'VE BATHED IN A WHILE IM SURE.

>> No.17703777

>>17698465
Mf u don't know what u talking about

>> No.17703796

>>17698483
MF u don't know what u talking about 2 go search Mediterranean diet.
Also there's a world of other stuff we ve created during the times your Irish/Africans ancestors didn't even know how to act differently from monkeys so my brother in cristh, stop saying shit

>> No.17703805

>>17698465
pasta is eggs and flour and if you dont have eggs in your pasta you should reevaluate your life

>> No.17703808

>>17698021
>it’s true when I say it tee hee
Fuck off faggot.