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

Yes you are being very unreasonable. It's not the pasta, it's what you put with it that makes it a meal. Doh.

Pasta when cooked well, is divine. A good macaroni cheese is food of the gods.

Foods that are pointless and/or vile are:

Marrow
Goats cheese
Pine nuts
Eel in any form
the tiny little pips covering strawberries, they fuck up a good Daiquiri
Aubergine
Liver ... bleurgh even the smell of it cooking makes me boak
Oysters

OP I am afraid we cannot be food soulmates. Pasta and red wine are the foods of the Gods.

My DH won't eat pasta, thinks it's pointless so we never have it. But he loves his bread which is basically the same thing without yeast!

Pasta is okay I suppose. But it doesn't excite me in any way and I'd rarely order it, even in an Italian restaurant.

You need to buy good quality pasta - it can be an AWFUL, stodgy, tasteless mess but if you get a good one (De Cecco for example as a dried pasta) and cook it al dente (11mins) and add some of your favourite sauce/ingredients, it is absolutely gorgeous IMHO. YUMMY!

I hate pasta. And rice. It just tastes of nothingness. Wild and brown rice is ok coz it tastes of something but takes a lifetime to cook.
If pasta was eradicated from the world I can't say I'd miss it.

Limurz - Agree with you food/drink faves! :)

Rice- I never eat.

Don't see the point in it at all.

You are obviously just a really bad cook. Such a shame.

I love cheesy pasta bake made with Homepride sauce.

I love posh, filled pasta like they have in Waitrose...spinach, ricotta & walnut tortelini.

Goats cheese, in fact any type of cheese, is amazing.

I feel like stamping my feet.........I AM A GOOD COOK boiling dough doesn't make you a top chef!!

Love pasta! So many possibilities. Also kept me alive when I was poor(er!)
But on the flip side, knowing it is so cheap, I begrudge ordering a pasta meal at a restaurant

Completely with you on that Leaspr love it at home but never order it out!

I hate pasta. Every mouthful is the same. It's bland! It's slimy. Yuk.

YABU. WTF is wrong with you?!

I love pasta, and I adore marrow!
I hate potatoes.

So I was told you've love pasta when you've tried it in Italy.

Bullshit! I've had it fresh, it still tastes like gooey snot rolling around in your mouth - no I haven't before you ask I'm just making an abridged metaphor.

Hate it, cook it with a timer for my family and enjoy the delights of bolognaise sauce with a lovely jacket potato on my own plate

It doesn't matter what shape or colour it comes in the taste is still the same, boring. Sorry any Italians out there but your pizza is much more palatable.

I'm married to an Italian and I can tell you with absolute authority you're not doing it right if all you're tasting is boiled dough. It's all about the quality of the ingredients.

You need to start with good pasta, De Cecco at least. Weigh it, salt the water, use plenty of water, TIME it, and make sure what you put on it is good.

Fresh pasta tossed in browned, salty sage butter with some parmigiano grated on top is delicious.

spaghetti aglio olio with a bit of chilli..

pasta with cauliflower cooked to an (almost mush) with garlic, black pepper, salt and a tiny squeeze of lemon tossed it..

Pasta pomodoro with homemade sauce, how can you beat that?

If you only ever tasted bread from the supermarket you'd think bread was shite too. Once you've had real bread made from high quality ingredients you realise that even the most simple food can be totally sublime.

Any idiot can cook pasta, the sauce is the triumph, making pasta taste great is an impossibility, it still taste like wallpaper paste even if it's cooked in Italy - I know tried it there too!

Pasta and mushy cauliflower doesn't that sound a treat

Pasta cavolfiore is my personal favourite Thingamajiggy also add a few nchiovies to my aglio olio....yum......

BTW. No need to spend loads on "good" pasta. Asda and tesco own brand pasta is from Gragnano....world famous for its pasta and their own brand tomatoes are from campania region ( I know the factory and it's owners where they are worked and canned and I use them myself......in italy.......)

I think you will find this pasta comment originates from some headline grabbing attention seeking by Tom Aikens when his restaurant business wasn't doing very well.

Pasta is just like bread: a simple way to consume carbs.

I may well be wrong though. I don't want to get sued.

But it was definitely one of the celebrity chefs!

Hate hate hate anything that tastes of oranges or wobbly white dessert like panna cotta also hate steamed salmon its disgusting