AIBU to think pasta is the world's most pointless food

[sonlypuppyfat]

That's it I'm done, I've tried every shape going all different sauces and I have decided once and for all its crap. All it is is boiled dough and I'm done with it

I like nearly everything mentioned on this thread (except Marmite and blue cheese - did anyone mention blue cheese?) and some of these things I like A LOT!!! How can anyone dislike avocados - when ripe they are just perfection.

Back to pasta. Obviously I like it a great deal but could I also say a word in defence of courgette spaghetti, courgetti whatever you want to call it. Of course it is not as good as the real thing; but when I am on the 5:2 and it is a fast day I can do courgetti and make a bolognaise of sorts out of turkey mince. Nowhere near as nice as proper spag bol but not bad for a fast day!

We have pasta nearly every day, occasionally a pizza or a baked potato.
Once in a while a veggie curry with rice and chapati/naan etc.

Where would I be without the genius invention that is pasta!

Op you have very unreasonable food opinions.

Pasta, red wine, aubergines, goats cheese, these are all staples of an adult diet.

(Potatoes are best roasted or mashed, no one surely actually likes boiled potatoes?)

I like boiled potatoes!

Boiled potatoes with butter are nice and also cold with mayonnaise

Polenta is pointless, porridge is pointless, goats cheese is just plain evil, celery is pointless (it doesn't even have calories just a bad taste and strings), courgettes were pointless until I discovered pea, courgette and parmesan soup which is delicious.

I like boiled potatoes too. Must be the celtic fringe blood.

Ooh yes, give me your boiled potatoes, baby ones with lots of butter?
And all your pasta, all shapes and styles with all your lovely sauces,
even goats cheese and avocado ....

Just pass it down this way ...

I'm starving, haven't eaten yet, got busy and need to visit the shops ....

I love pasta - but I love a good stodgy carb...

But two pasta dishes I have loved and that converted my DH - who thought it was a waste of carbs

Ravioli with an intense mushroom filling - just two of them as a starter in a lovely Italian restaurant - incredible.

Seafood pasta - the special of the day in a tiny restaurant in Venice - full of workers from the Musuem next door. That was just incredible.

Baby boiled potato with a bit of butter is heavenly. Doesn't need adorning with lots of other ingredients in order to de-blandify it.

I'd eat pasta anyday over mushrooms.
Fresh pasta is nicer though (but I kick myself at paying for it when I could, but cnba, to make it myself).

Pasta is my favourite source of carbs (and rice). Quinoa is pointless as far as I am concerned. Complete waste of calories.

What is wrong with some of you people? pasta, goats cheese, red wine - please let me have all three together.

Not a fussy eater here and I like pasta, but polenta never did it for me either. I also hate packet custard and tinned rice pudding with a passion. Why would you follow a substantial meal with a load of slimy lumpy tasteless stodge?

yes YABU.
marshmellows (except the bit in a wagonwheel/teacake/ tunnocks) on the other hand - pointless.

Doesn't like pasta or red wine.

OP you have serious issues.

I agree polenta can be a bit of a tricky one - but once had a delicious meal of slices of polenta with a puy lentil dish - on holiday in the French Alps!

BTW Instead of going out to the shops I rustled up a lovely fusilli pasta with the rest of a jar of pesto, some cream cheese, and a handful of olives. Was great!

Really made me chuckle when you say "I'm done with it!" Like its some petulant relative !!! Pasta... I'm done with YOU !!

StealthBear

Me too - but I would have my pasta with a spoonful of olive oil . . .

That's right, I've tried and tried but I'm done with it

Quinoa is muck; as are tofu, soya and quorn.

Parsnips are The Work of The Devil.

Pasta is fabulous (except for vermicelli, which just cooks into a rats' nest); lentils are superb; blue cheese is the food of angels, avocados are the most wonderful, buttery, delicious things ever.

Coleslaw. Vile, vile, vile. Smells like child's sick.

I love corned beef. With a bit of brown sauce. And cheese and onion crisps in a sandwich.

Pasta is nice if cooked properly.

You are doing it wrong. Pasta is fab.

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I've got a really horrible feeling I won't be able to look at coleslaw the same way in future, I loved it until I read your comment. Very upsetting for me