What is the appeal of pasta?

[pagerbear]

Chewy, gummy, tasteless stuff, IMHO. Holder-upper of good stuff like meat and cheese and sauces. Why defile a perfectly good tuna salad with gummy pasta shells? Why put your clothes in peril for spaghetti? I just don't get it.

[demnan]

1. You've overcooked it

Pasta shouldn't be chewy or gummy. And if you don't like it, well that's your problem.

[Whitacre D_WI]

3. You've WAY overcooked it.

And if it's flavorless, you need a new brand of pasta!

[Jack_Dawson]

2. It's about the sauce - not the pasta

...duh? :-) :toast:

[GOPisEvil]

4. If it's gummy and chewy, you aren't cooking it properly.

It's all about a balance between the pasta and the sauce. :9

[mzmolly]

5. Pasta is Low Glycemic! And....Nutritious/Delicious and Versatile

;)

[pagerbear]

6. Me? Cook? You clearly don't know me!

[BlueEyedSon]

10. Well if you dont cook it

it's kinda too "crunchy"....

[Skittles]

7. lol . . . . pagerbear

I find pasta gross too.

[Zomby Woof]

8. versatility

As long as you keep cereal out of your recipes.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

9. Pasta can often get you in the presence of Italian women

that's good enough for me

[pagerbear]

11. How about Italian men?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

13. That's what wine does

[On the Road]

12. The Italian Futurists Would be Delighted with Your Post

They had some of history's unkindest words for pasta.

Above all we believe necessary: a) The abolition of (pasta), an absurd Italian gastronomic religion.... For example it is completely hostile to the vivacious spirit and passionate, generous, intuitive soul of the Neapolitans. If these people have been heroic fighters, inspired artists, awe-inspiring orators, shrewd lawyers, tenacious farmers it was in spite of their voluminous daily plate of pasta. (When they eat it they develop that typical ironic and sentimental scepticism which can often cut short their enthusiasm.

----snip

Pasta), 40 % less nutritious than meat, fish or pulses, ties today's Italians with its tangled threads to Penelope's slow looms and to somnolent old sailingships in search of wind. Why let its massive heaviness interfere with the immense network of short long waves which Italian genius has thrown across oceans and continents? Why let it block the path of those landscapes of colour form sound which circumnavigate the world thanks to radio and television? The defenders of pasta are shackled by its ball and chain like convicted lifers or carry its ruins in their stomachs like archaeologists. And remember too that the abolition of pasta will free Italy from expensive foreign grain and promote the Italian rice industry.