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?

No, spaghetti is spaghetti. If I asked for pasta and received spaghetti, I'd be confused. Pasta is be fusilli, spirali, conchiglie, farfalle... Not macaroni though, macaroni is macaroni. And tagliatelle is tagliatelle.

Penne here too.

Yet a main well known meal is spag bol

Oh I forgot about rigatoni, a great pasta

You cannot mix pasta, I am Italian and this is against the law. The vigile will be out and they will find you. My Italian mil would feint if shc read this.

Penne is our default pasta, anything else gets mentioned by name or shape. Most pastas work for most dishes but I wouldn't be happy about macaroni being used outside macaroni cheese. We also mix sometimes but not through choice only when where low on one

Every day goes by and I think - surely we've run out of things to talk about on MN. And yet here we are.

Penne is the default.

Every other type needs to be specified at the request stage.

what is this strangeness of snapping spaghetti? i've practically stopped buying it since you can't get proper long spaghetti any more!

Psychopaths mix pasta. It's the first thing on the checklist.

recoils in Italian

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

If someone offered you some pasta bake would you expect it to be spaghetti used?

Spaghetti is spaghetti. Penne or Fusilli is pasta in my home.

Why is nobody talking about that you had 3 different meals in your house tonight?! The washing up!!!!!!

I agree with @PrinnyPree :

"Fusilli is our default pasta, (really good at sauce retention)
Spaghetti is spaghetti and only the default for bolognaise or with meat balls.
I like linguine if we're doing a carbonara."

Linguine with cab every time. And farfalle is asking for floppy ends and chewy middles, no one wants that. Penne doesn't hold any sauce.

And conchiglie only holds a horrid pocket of boiling water to burn your lip and dilute your sauce. It's the nasty booby prize of pasta.

Just need to drop in and say that farfalle are BUTTERFLIES, not bow ties! Good grief!

Some sanity. Thank you.

Maritati - typical mixed pasta from Puglia

https://lestradedelvinopuglia.com/en/maritati-pasta/

Penne or fusilli is the default surely!
Definitely not spaghetti, although mixing pasta shapes is terrible! lol

Rigatoni is the default pasta in our house. Holds a pleasing amount of sauce in. Penne is too narrow.

If someone says pasta, spaghetti is the last type of pasta I expect. If it's spaghetti, I expect them to say spaghetti.

Mixing pasta shapes is sacrilege though.

I'm the same. Although I have to say pappardelle has been a game-changer for me. Like upgraded spaghetti imo 😅

I really like spaghetti (and pappardelle) but I don't really like other types of pasta. I mean, I could eat it if I have to but I don't really enjoy it.

I couldn't explain why but then I read a description somewhere that explained different pastas have a different thickness, and a different sauce-to-pasta ratio and I realised that's the issue for me! Pastas usually feel thick and heavy with more pasta than sauce/cheese etc whereas spaghetti and pappardelle has a better ratio so you get a more flavourful mouthful without having to munch through a load of heavy pasta.

I particularly despise those horrible little penne tubes which are just rigid and thick. Bleurgh.

Might go into hiding now to avoid being annihilated by Italians 👀🫣😅

There is no default pasta shape!

Goodness me, i can feel thousands of Nonnas welling up at our collective ignorance 😂

"It". You call it spaghetti.

And quite right too.