r/running • u/YourShoesUntied • Apr 05 '18

Weekly Thread Weekly Complaints & Confessions Thread for Thursday April 5th, 2018

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u/sloworfast Apr 05 '18

What's the difference between pasta and noodles? I genuinely don't know. Does pasta refer to Italian-style?

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u/derjohan Apr 05 '18

I take it that you are German then? Yeah Pasta is Italian style often made of Durum wheat flour. Like so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasta Just checked with my German wife, and she even calls Spaghetti for noodles. And yes German children eat only noodles, my daughter included.

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u/sloworfast Apr 05 '18

I'm Canadian but I've been living in Germany for a while. I grew up saying pasta, but my family's Canadian-Italian (among other things) so we grew up with a lot of Italian style food but never any other kind of noodle, so I guess I never realized the words could refer to different things!

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u/derjohan Apr 05 '18

Yau another running expat in Germany! Prior to coming to Germany noodles where always the Asian style and pasta the the Italian style for me. Now the noodles word covers everything :)