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  • Posts: 1,232 Member
    I would have to draw a venn diagram of pasta and noodles.

    I wouldn't consider all noodles to be pasta, and I would consider all pasta to be noodles.
  • Posts: 15,267 Member

    Still doesn't answer my question.

    for me pasta is made from specific ingrediants...usually contains wheat...

    Noodles can be rice noodles...but not rice pasta....*scratches head*
  • Posts: 8,934 Member

    Yes we call all pasta of all shapes pasta.

    Noodles though I call Asian not northern European?

    I can see that too. I think of noodles more as German Egg Noodles or Spaetzle.
  • Posts: 8,171 Member
    edited September 2017

    Still doesn't answer my question.

    Best I can do. You know it when you see it.

    More seriously, around here, noodles are usually flat and rectangular, and can vary from about an inch long to a few inches (but can be different widths although wide is the most common) where pasta is shaped into specific forms depending on the use.
  • Posts: 1,232 Member
    edited September 2017
    my unpopular opinion about health is that the old fashion way works, but no one wants to do it! That is eat whole foods, mostly plants, dark greens, and other veggies, no food that comes in a box, very little starch, with lean protein, plus exercise of some type.

    so paleo + whole grains? I'm not sure that's such an unpopular opinion.

    don't most people just call that "clean eating?"
  • Posts: 13,575 Member
    my unpopular opinion about health is that the old fashion way works, but no one wants to do it! That is eat whole foods, mostly plants, dark greens, and other veggies, no food that comes in a box, very little starch, with lean protein, plus exercise of some type.

    I'm not arguing whether this is good or bad, but where is this the "old fashioned way"? I'm in my mid-50's and even my grandparents didn't eat that way.
  • Posts: 1,639 Member

    I think you are wrong here. Look "chili" up in the dictionary. It's a hot pepper. Chile is just another spelling for chili.

    You're right, they are completely interchangeable, with chili first. So why does something like "ancho chili pepper" look so weird to me, as opposed to "ancho chile pepper." Weird. Anyway, I asked Dr. Google, and he said that it's another great topic for debate, ha ha! : http://articles.latimes.com/2000/nov/19/local/me-54396

  • Posts: 1,232 Member
    NickleArse wrote: »
    a bulletproof coffee for breakfast (as part of a keto or LCHF diet) is an excellent way to lose weight

    whats the point of adding butter to the coffee? seems like unnecessary calories to me. coffee is just fine as-is.
  • Posts: 8,911 Member
    Anyone got a good American chili recipe? I think I'm gonna order some ancho chili, lol.
  • Posts: 1,232 Member
    Anyone got a good American chili recipe? I think I'm gonna order some ancho chili, lol.

    this is a really good one, and appropriately complex to make

    http://www.esquire.com/food-drink/food/recipes/a6171/texas-chili-recipe-ll-1208/
  • Posts: 6,057 Member
    NickleArse wrote: »
    a bulletproof coffee for breakfast (as part of a keto or LCHF diet) is an excellent way to lose weight

    How exactly...?
  • Posts: 3,563 Member
    Just to add to the pasta discussion. I come from a small neighborhood in Queens, from parents who came from very limited food backgrounds and never had money to eat out. This would be our family definitions, I'm really sure not the same outside the family.

    Spaghetti - just spaghetti
    Macaroni - elbow macaroni, bow tie macaroni, corkscrew macaroni etc. (always specifically by shape). Except shells, which were just shells.
    Noodles - lasagna, chicken noodle soup and Chinese
    Pasta (never heard this until we moved to CA) - became bucket term for everything not noodles.

    I'll save the "kidney bean stuff" that eventually morphed into "sweet chili" for another time...
  • Posts: 36,879 Member

    Some guy at a local chili cookoff made Cincinnati chili with cinnamon once. No idea how authentic it was, but I thought it was pretty good. I can't say I remember the texture at all. It was several years ago. He didn't win.

    He wouldn't, I think. Most people seem to prefer eating things that taste the same way that particular dish has always tasted in their world.

    This is the whole basis of the regional chili wars.
  • Posts: 8,911 Member
    jdlobb wrote: »

    this is a really good one, and appropriately complex to make

    http://www.esquire.com/food-drink/food/recipes/a6171/texas-chili-recipe-ll-1208/

    Lots of stuff there I can't get and don't know how to substitute unfortunately.
  • Posts: 15 Member
    I should clarify all of this by saying I don't buy Asprey's proprietary ingredients to make my BP coffee, it's jsut espresso, butter and coconut oil
    jdlobb wrote: »

    whats the point of adding butter to the coffee? seems like unnecessary calories to me. coffee is just fine as-is.

    I've done keto diet with and without bullet proof coffee, I get a lot less of the negative side effects of keto when I consume BP coffee
    J72FIT wrote: »

    How exactly...?

    helps me hit super low calories (on keto) whilst still feeling super energetic
  • Posts: 1,650 Member
    NickleArse wrote: »
    I should clarify all of this by saying I don't buy Asprey's proprietary ingredients to make my BP coffee, it's jsut espresso, butter and coconut oil

    I've done keto diet with and without bullet proof coffee, I get a lot less of the negative side effects of keto when I consume BP coffee

    helps me hit super low calories (on keto) whilst still feeling super energetic

    Bulletproof coffee helped you keep your calories low?
  • Posts: 3,424 Member

    Lots of stuff there I can't get and don't know how to substitute unfortunately.

    This is the one I have used that has beer and chocolate in it: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/beer-chili-chocolate-the-end-come-and-get-it-98477866295.html. Nothing too crazy for ingredients other than the Mexican beer (which is a malty lager) and the corn flour.
  • Posts: 958 Member

    When I was in 4th grade, my grandparents moved to the Ozarks, and we would always cross the river near Cairo and then stop at Boomland (a mecca for roadside Americana back then) and Lamberts. I always felt like I was getting somewhere once we hit that red dirt.

    Lamberts...home of the throwed roll!
    Got me a big Lambert's travel mug when I last there about 2 months ago.

  • Posts: 30,886 Member
    Bulletproof coffee would not work for me, since for me (not saying for anyone else) I like to have either nothing at all for breakfast (other than black coffee) or something that includes some vegetables. I try not to have meals that involve lots of calories and no vegetables.

    Also, and perhaps more importantly, I prefer black coffee, and the idea of oil and butter in coffee seems icky.
  • Posts: 36,879 Member
    earlnabby wrote: »

    Nope. Marjoram and Oregano are kissing cousins and are both members of the mint family. Mexican oregano (wild marjoram) is a completely different species unrelated to the mints. The botanical name is Lippia graveolens and it is actually related to verbena.

    In just to thank you for going to the Latin name - the only sane way to talk about plants.

    Maybe we need Latin names for stuff like pasta/noodles. ;)
  • Posts: 6,771 Member

    Still doesn't answer my question.

    Link I posted earlier.

    https://www.clearspring.co.uk/blogs/news/12237057-the-difference-between-noodles-pasta
  • Posts: 36,879 Member
    lemurcat12 wrote: »

    I actually think it's that a lot of Americans ran into noodles from a central European background first, and knew only a limited selection of pasta (which some apparently called macaroni in all forms, although we did not).

    When I was growing up, you had noodles, which were egg noodles, or spaghetti, or lasagne noodles. Pasta as a general term was not used. I don't recall noodles with Chinese food from when I was young, but later had it with Japanese food (nice restaurant in town was Japanese) and then was exposed to it (late high school) in Chinese and Thai.

    I now think of pasta as Italian and noodles as everything else, although I'd tend to agree that noodles is the generic.

    That said, chili shouldn't be put on spaghetti, that's a weird Cincinnati thing. (Joking, mostly.)

    Pretty close in the history points, for me, too (US Great Lakes region, rural). I'd add that the first people to start talking about "pasta" were perceived by some others as a little full of themselves and "fancy".
  • Posts: 13,575 Member
    AnnPT77 wrote: »

    He wouldn't, I think. Most people seem to prefer eating things that taste the same way that particular dish has always tasted in their world.

    This is the whole basis of the regional chili wars.

    I suppose that's true. Chili is serious business to some people. There was hate mail, calls for impeachment and lawsuits filed when the annual chili cookoff banned the use of meats that had not been USDA inspected.
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