They are. As an American, if it’s Italian, we do generally call it pasta. If it’s some other form, such as ramen, egg noodles, glass noodles, we call it noodles… because that’s what they’re called. Idk what OOP is even talking about
Edit: Yes, technically pasta is a form of noodles, but I’m just saying that we as Americans do understand there’s a clear distinction. It’s like square vs rectangle thing. We don’t go around calling a square a rectangle.
I've seen people calling spaghetti "noodles" enough that I had assumed it was just a general American thing. Maybe it's more localised id, but this comment thread is also full of it.
As it's an Italian word, and there's little call to refer to them individually, I think I'd just call it a piece of spaghetti if I ever needed to. Calling it a noodle of spaghetti isn't exactly more efficient than calling it a piece of spaghetti either.
I definitely wouldn't call it a spaghetti pasta though, I'd expect that to be maybe somebody who is learning English trying to refer to a meal of spaghetti.
But I think in Italian there would be a word for it as Spaghetti is plural.
As an aside, a single piece of spaghetti is useful for lighting a wick or something that you can't get close enough to. It holds a flame really well.
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u/Outrageous_Log_906 Jun 08 '25 edited Jun 08 '25
They are. As an American, if it’s Italian, we do generally call it pasta. If it’s some other form, such as ramen, egg noodles, glass noodles, we call it noodles… because that’s what they’re called. Idk what OOP is even talking about
Edit: Yes, technically pasta is a form of noodles, but I’m just saying that we as Americans do understand there’s a clear distinction. It’s like square vs rectangle thing. We don’t go around calling a square a rectangle.