Spaghetti is the default pasta

[RawBloomers]

My DH asked me what I’d like to eat and I said pasta and pasta sauce. I was picturing spaghetti with a lovely tomato and basil sauce, generously sprinkled with black pepper and parmesan. This is also DC1’s favourite meal.

Spaghetti is the default pasta and should be assumed if no particular type of pasta is mentioned. AIBU?

He has made a mix of penne pasta and macaroni. And put sausage in the sauce. I want to pout and stamp my feet like a four year old. (I have not I have thanked him and told him how lovely he is).

There is plenty of spaghetti in the cupboard. We only have penne in because they had no spaghetti in the shop once, months ago. We only have macaroni in because DC2 likes mac&cheese and I make it - for them alone - from time to time. He made this penne/macaroni monstrosity for me and DC1 as DC2 has already eaten and he had something different. He and all right thinking people should know better, right?

Hmm, I'm not sure about mixing macaroni pasta with another. In my head, macaroni is more starchy but I could be talking nonsense.

Yes mixing two or more shapes feels very wrong. I’ve done it but only when it’s the only option because there’s only a few bits and bobs left in different bags. I then try to eat all of one of the shapes first to feel less discombobulated.

I would mix something like fusilli and penne together (as PP above, I've done this with bags that have small amounts in them), but I wouldn't mix spaghetti with either of those.

@RawBloomers I think they're called stelline.

Apart from the almost unforgivable mixing of pastas I'm with your man. Penne sounds the better option for tomato and sausage sauce.

Sorry, should have said the little stars are stelline.

You know, you might be right about the bows being worse than the penne.

I just have to contend with penne more because of dh's issues.

Penne or rigatoni are the default pastas.

Spaghetti is just for spaghetti bolognese or spaghetti and meatballs.

Macaroni is for mac n cheese or at a push, chicken noodle soup. Can also be used instead of ditalini in pasta e fagioli.

Fettuccine is for fettuccine alfredo.

I don’t eat pasta but the default for the kids is tagliolini.

This.

I’ve got a solution to this, if any non-default pasta makes it across your threshold: pop straight into the food recycle bin. I’m even stricter about pasta it has to be spaghetti or fusilli and also DeCecco (or I whack it into the bin). Life is too short for shitty supermarket brand pasta.

I seem to be in the minority for thinking mixing pasta types is a heroic move on his part. I’m all about the Jazz Pasta.

YABU spaghetti is spaghetti, pasta is the non-long ones

Italy gave spaghetti to the people of the world. The people of the rest of the world have yet to get the joke.
😉😁😁.

I remember in the 1970s going to posh/wealthy/ ate out great aunt and uncles house and they had long packs of spaghetti.
In 1988 I worked in a restaurant and on the wine bar menu was lasagna.
Then I discovered pasta twists and then the stuffed pasta parcels like spinach and ricotta tortellini.

But spaghetti came waaaaayyyyy before pasta!

Farfalle, and yes, I like them too.

Also have never eaten penne since I first tried rigatoni.

Can't explain why it's so much better, but it just is.

I remember spaghetti hoops and alphabetti spaghetti!

You an still buy spaghetti hoops 😀

Does anyone remember the April fools joke on News at Ten
They reported to have discovered that spaghetti grew on trees. My dad had never eaten it and believed them 😳🥴

Spaghetti goes with bolognese, meatballs or carbonara in our household. Otherwise it’s penne or fusilli. (Although I do like tagliatelli as well!)

It's a wonder the Italians let us into their country at all. I assume our consumption of spaghetti hoops is why we were on opposite sides in WWII.

pretty good for bulking out soups and the like too.

[Sharp intake of breath]

It is a well known fact that different shapes of pasta taste different.
I agree that spaghetti is the best. Penne and fusilli are ‘okay’, those little bows and tagliatelle are 👎!

@DancinOnTheCeiling you'd think that but even then it comes off weird. Adding the hard starchy pasta to the already boiling other pasta messes it up. I think?!

@BobbyBiscuitsI don’t do it often, only when we’re running low so haven’t thought about it much but I get where you’re coming from

I think macaroni came somewhat before spaghetti. My dm would make macaroni cheese occasionally, but never anything as exotic (garlic!) as spag bol.

The word 'macaroni' entered the English language in the 18th century to refer to dandies who dressed in a continental style so presumably someone had knowledge of that particular pasta.