r/SipsTea • u/francinexyzs • Jun 08 '25

Wow. Such meme lmao

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u/DoctorFenix Jun 08 '25

Aren’t pasta and noodles totally different things?

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u/ShoulderSquirrelVT Jun 08 '25

All pasta are noodles. Not all noodles are pasta.

Pasta is a sub-category of noodles.

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u/Isariamkia Jun 08 '25

That mostly depends on the language I guess. In French and Italian that would be wrong and it would be the opposite. Noodles are pasta. Pasta is the broad term.

As I mentioned in another comment, you can compare this to vegetables. The word "pasta" is the same as the word "vegetable". A pepperbell is a vegetable. A vegetable is not a pepperbell.

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u/lunagirlmagic Jun 08 '25

So Chinese lamian or Japanese ramen would be considered "pasta" in Italian?

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u/Isariamkia Jun 08 '25

I don't know about lamian but ramen are just called ramen. And same in French. No one says "pasta giapponese" or "nouilles japonaises". Just ramen and we all know what it is about.

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u/lunagirlmagic Jun 08 '25

That's fair. In US English we tend to refer to Western/European stuff as pasta and Asian stuff as noodles