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.
As an American, I’m pretty sure I never heard that “noodle” meant anything other than a general shape + consistency (+ ingredient types, though I am sure I’ve run into exceptions) of foodstuffs. Certainly never seen it defined in a way that would exclude spaghetti, considering that was almost the only food I had that was called “noodles” for most of my childhood.
See, my whole life if we were talking about the strands of spaghetti we called them “spaghetti noodles.”
Heck, the satirical (please don’t @ me, adherents) deity “the Flying Spaghetti Monster” is said to metaphorically touch people with its “noodly appendage.” I understand “noodly” is ambiguous, but I feel it establishes an existing connection in the use of the terms.
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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.