Oh man, my local shop sells these as “makkaroni” and I was so confused, because I knew those to be a different shape. Now I just checked Wikipedia and it literally has a heading like:
“Makkaroni” in Germany
And it says that apparently we refer to any longer, straight, tube-shaped pasta as “makkaroni”. I guess, it’s alright that we don’t use the Italian spelling after all. 🫠
People can say “penne rigate” or declare not to be Italian without actually writing it
Italian food snobism ruined Italian cuisine
Penne rigate are the opposite of snobism!
Oh man, my local shop sells these as “makkaroni” and I was so confused, because I knew those to be a different shape. Now I just checked Wikipedia and it literally has a heading like:
And it says that apparently we refer to any longer, straight, tube-shaped pasta as “makkaroni”. I guess, it’s alright that we don’t use the Italian spelling after all. 🫠