🤷 I’m also American and grew up on pasta, and while you’re dead on about the sauce and unsalted pasta water, most people in my experience know that al Dente means “firm to the bite” and cook pasta properly enough, often enough that when it’s not I’d just assume it was an accident.

It’s not exactly hard scifi

That’s wild, I only got hit once months ago. She must really have the hots for you.*wink wink *nudge nudge

It might be, I dunno, but any pair of lightweight, wide-toebox shoes with minimal cushioning, no incline, and minimal arch support will achieve most of the same benefits. The idea is that shoes like these let you walk more naturally, with toes splayed and foot muscles worked.

Italian recipes tend to let the quality of the produce do the talking. There’s no making cheap stuff work by seasoning the hell out of it, so it has to be quality fresh stuff. Fresh herbs, good cheese, quality tomatoes, etc.

the rest of the world isn’t your mother

Nah but it’s way closer than it should be

Zing!

Starting with the pasta itself (not how it’s prepared), they use different ingredients. Italian pasta is usually made from high quality duram wheat, whereas American made pastas use a variety of flours, and usually includes eggs (rare with Italian pasta), which results in a softer cooked product. That leads to cooking differences, where Italians prefer firmer texture (al dente), whereas Americans tend to have it softer.

How many times have you had pasta in America?You have some good points with the rest of your comment but this paragraph makes sound like either someone over overcooked your pasta or incorrectly used egg noodles, which are totally different and for different dishes though they look the same at a glance. I would only use egg noodles in soups and stroganoff. I just looked through all the pasta I have now, purchased from Walmart, Costco, and all the normie places: none of it has eggs, a lot of it contains durum wheat/semolina flour, and a majority of it is 100% durum. Some of it uses the phrase “al Dente” on the box, and I can tell you with good confidence that that is one of the few Italian phrases that American non-italians will know.

If you really wanna be pedantic, almost everything is a knocknockoff of something

I’m pretty sure bishops had a list of questions that they had to ask everyone in the 1-on-1 meetings. Concerning porn I distinctly remember

Have you ever watched porn?

And

When was the last time you watched porn?

What threw me off though was even though I answered “no” to the first (I was lying of course, I straight jork it), they still asked the second with no hesitation. I’m saying “they” because I got the same porn questions from multiple bishops, like at least 3. I’m pretty certain it’s actual church policy. It’s basically involuntary confessions now that I think about it, fuckin weird. One straight up asked me if I was into his daughter though, pretty sure that wasn’t in the script haha.

I wanna touch it

Thanks! I’ll read through this and watch the videos tonight

Knocking on heaven’s door - guns n roses

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*Up an octave, shrill af

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They’re definitely a thing in the US

I really like my lodge cast-iron one, but when I’ve used stones they seem to work just as well for New Haven style

It’s not great but ‘bad car names’ is a whole genre, one that vw in particular excels at. These are the guys that brought you the “Tiguan”. Look it up, that’s not some fancy Spanish word or something, they literally just jammed the words “tiger” and “iguana” together and thought that it’d be the perfect name for their new mom-car.

I’m listening. Have any recipe suggestions?

Some jerk posted Escape from the Prison Planet by Clutch on lemmy somewhere awhile back and now it’s been stuck in my head for three months straight

Not quite right!!

Two come to mind:

Scott Pilgrim vs the World

A Knights Tale

Hell, might as well go for three. Keep em comin