But not because Guido Barilla is a homophobe, not because Guido Barilla makes a point of not being supportive in their ads, that is, do not buy Barilla pasta but not for being homoindifferent, homohaughty, homounhelpful, homopococurante, but rather because they use silicon dies and not bronze dies. It makes all the difference in the world.
Vodkapundit.
And, ew, I hate that. Bronze dies leave a rough texture on the pasta that you can feel with your fingertips, like sandpaper The faster, slicker, easier to replace, less expensive silicone dies preferred by producers result in slick slippery feeling pasta. Rough textured pasta hold onto sauce a lot better, sloughs more and helps create a sauce better. So look for it. It makes a difference.
DeCecco at the grocery stores. This reminds me. I see a lot of harsh words towards Whole Foods, a friend calls it Whole Paycheck, but you can go straight to their house brand pasta and pick up a few boxes of spaghetti, linguini, fettuccine, and such, they're about a dollar, a little more, about the same price as elsewhere, if more then nothing worth noting but certainly worth taking advantage of, even if that is not what you had in mind, just grab a box or two and you will see the difference in how it cooks, tastes, and holds sauce, even sauce so light as plain oil.
Vodkapundit.
And, ew, I hate that. Bronze dies leave a rough texture on the pasta that you can feel with your fingertips, like sandpaper The faster, slicker, easier to replace, less expensive silicone dies preferred by producers result in slick slippery feeling pasta. Rough textured pasta hold onto sauce a lot better, sloughs more and helps create a sauce better. So look for it. It makes a difference.
DeCecco at the grocery stores. This reminds me. I see a lot of harsh words towards Whole Foods, a friend calls it Whole Paycheck, but you can go straight to their house brand pasta and pick up a few boxes of spaghetti, linguini, fettuccine, and such, they're about a dollar, a little more, about the same price as elsewhere, if more then nothing worth noting but certainly worth taking advantage of, even if that is not what you had in mind, just grab a box or two and you will see the difference in how it cooks, tastes, and holds sauce, even sauce so light as plain oil.
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Althouse has a post claiming Obama is gay. Well, not exactly. Althouse blogged about a guy who was caught stretching the truth, lying, is now claiming Obama is gay, she tagged it as lame.
To me that's a nebulous tag.
Althouse has a post claiming Obama is gay.
Isn't that all pretty old? Google "Obama bathhouse"
Althouse is losing her touch for being ahead of the curve.
I read about it, the barilla controversies, tangentially via Gay Patriot.
Well, as much as you can deduce from a tightly scripted twitter post.
All I could surmise was that someone at Barilla had done or said something anti-gay.
Althouse is losing her touch for being ahead of the curve.
She posted that violent video of NYC thugs attacking a man with his wife and daughter.
Althouse is like Fox News.
OTOH, Maybe the autocomplete is just telling me what I want to hear. Or, more precisely, what it believes I want to hear.
I don't like using dry pasta in any case. You can usually get good (semi-)fresh refrigerated pasta at the grocery store or Trader Joe's.
You can get bronze die pasta at Trader Joe's for .99 a pound.
Whether you go with fresh or dry pasta depends on the dish you are going with.
Less is more, focus on simplicity and quality.
Too late, besides The Blonde loves their whole grain spaghetti.
(1) Pasta is the first food I learned to do without once I decided to get back in shape.
Eat to live, don't live to eat.
(2) Whatsername uses "lame" as if it were the word "gay."
See what she's doing there?
About as subtle as a flying mallet.
(3) "Moe is their leader."
-- Homer Simpson
The gov time website http://129.6.13.35/timezone.cgi?Eastern/d/-5 that my scripts read every ten minutes to update the laptop clock have stopped working.
Website government shutdown.
(Regular windows time checking for some reason resets the clock speed and ruins time keeping entirely, so I do it "manually" in my own script).
Sometimes I'll read something and think - that was a great thing to say. Then I'll keep reading and it only gets better.
like now....
I’ve always dreamed in living in a world where I was Free to Celebrate precisely those cult objects that the left demanded I Celebrate. I always dreamed of a world in which I was Free to be rentlessly henpecked, anklebitten, bullied & boycotted by well-funded leftist groups paid to harass citizens every waking moment of every single day.
Welcome to ObamaClintonPelosiReid America. You will be harassed.
Ace wrote, "didn't clap hard enough."
All the owner did was say, "No thank you." to supporting their cause in their own advertising.
The PJ article linked has an ad run by competitor, penne pasta and farfalle pasta pair, then penne pasta pair, then farfalle pasta pair, "we don't care who you do it with, just do it al dente"
do it hard.
we don't care who you do it with do it duro.
That is just plain silly. Hey everybody, we're not like those controversial guys, we're homonormative. glees. sillies. twirls. dances, smiles winningly.
Instead of, "bronze dies"
That would be a selling point. a picture of bronze dies, glorious old world, craftsmanship, VS silicone dies, cold, clinical, circle with red X.
Ha! when I googled [pasta bronze dies] I see my own photo.
The guy could have said, "Oh, we feature gays in our advertising already. Gay cooks cooking pasta, gay customers eating pasta. The models shown in the advert behaving straight are actually gay, and the two men sitting together are actually straight, my nephew is in one, he's gayor the mayor, and my sister, Alicia, is in one of the adverts too, and she just came out. So yeah, they're all over the place already.
oh sorry - Above content are ACE quotes, found at the link.
We didn't have a lot of money growing up. At least twice a week dinner was a plate of spaghetti. A&P brand pasta and sauce from a jar. On Sunday nights we would also get a tossed salad and Italian bread from the deli on the corner. Lots of A&P brand margarine for the bread.
I'm not complaining. It was good and I never went hungry.
The point is, that's a dinner-thing I took into adulthood. And I'm no longer underfunded.
It wasn't so very long ago that a favorite dinner of mine was an enormous fucking pile of fettuccine carbonara, with lots of pancetta and as much cheese and cream as humanly possible. And yes, I'd go back for seconds.
And don't think there wasn't bread and butter and wine and booze and beer.
Dessert. Like Italian cookies from the local bakery, at the very minimum. Sometimes cheesecake. Yes, cheesecake.
Anyway, back when I shopped for myself, I bought San Giorgio brand. I liked the red box and the gold medallian of St. George and the Dragon. Pretty cool.
Later on, my wife would by some brand of pasta that came in a blue box with an illustration of some obese peasant chick on it.
I used to spend a lot of time looking at that fat peasant chick trying to put it all together. Why was I so fat?
And then the penne a la vodka dropped.
CORRECTION: It appears that it was actually Aunt Jemima on the pasta box.
I'm not a big fan of pasta. I do love good gnocchi, however.
after delicate surgery to remove the u.
When you're eating massive quantities of pasta with cheese/cream sauces, and you've moved up from dumping crushed red pepper flake all over it to dumping ground cayenne all over it . . . to give it some distinction . . . it's time for a change.
I had several meals in fancy hotels in Italy.
They'd bring a pasta course served on a little baby plate.
I'd look at it and be all like, "What the fuck?"
But it was delicious.
And I admit it: They were right and I was wrong.
I don't recall seeing any fat Italians.
And they all seem to dress pretty damn well, too.
A small plate of Italian pasta sounds really nice. Especially if there's garlic in the sauce.
I need to harvest my basil. Winter may hit in a few days. (grrr)
Mrs. Fruit Bat takes the last of the basil and turns it into pesto. It freezes well. You can even use ice cube trays.
She'll use the pesto as a pasta sauce.
Sometimes nowadays I'll have a little pasta with pesto . . . a special treat.
Live a little. Why not?
Too much pasta will make you fat. A small plate is appropriate as a course between the antipasta and the main dish. Eat to live, of course. But Italians do live to eat and expect the food to be a high quality even on normal days.
Pesto is like concentrated goodness. Italian vitamins.
Basil (catnip for humans) garlic, pine nuts, olive oil.
Never thought of ice trays. hmmm.
Classify THIS more as humor than serious health and fitness advice, but still, the man has a point.
Once they're frozen into little cubes, turn them out into a plastic ziploc freezer bag and squeeze out all the air. Then put teh bag in Tupperware or a RubberMaid container if you've got room enough in the freezer.
Thanks, Eric. I'll give it a try. Squeezing the air out is key, right?
No air!
I'm a regular buyer of Barilla linguini. Very good mouth feel. No complaints. Could care less that the homo "community" is having a hissy fit over simple free speech.
@Eric: thanks for posting news of deep fried soup. Anyone can deep fry a Snickers bar, but it takes imagination and tech know how to deep fry soup. And you just know that's not an idea that would occur to any gays. Deep frying is definitely hetero. Barrilla should bring out a line of pasta that is designed to be deep fried rather than boiled.
Lem said...
Althouse has a post claiming Obama is gay. Well, not exactly. Althouse blogged about a guy who was caught stretching the truth, lying, is now claiming Obama is gay, she tagged it as lame.
To me that's a nebulous tag.
Yet no posts about Obama lying about being gay or just lying? Interesting.
Pasta is only gay if you stick it up your ass.
I make my own pasta.
Now I have to do it gluten free.
It's good to know that Trooper's up and full of beans.
Stay thirsty, my friend.
Hungry . . . whatever.
Trooper, good to see you back at the keyboard...
Trooper, good to see you back at the keyboard...
Just try not to get his heart aflutter...
Good point...
Isn't that all pretty old? Google "Obama bathhouse"
Way old. The Hillbuzz guys have been claiming this for years now.
To be on topic: Why are they putting die into pasta?
It's not the pasta that puts the dying in it. It's the fucking cream sauce.
Trooper York said...
It's the fucking cream sauce.
Eat enough of it and it ends up flowing through your veins.
The best thing about a cheesy cream sauce is after it congeals you can caulk your windows with it.
Thanks, Chip. I had noticed the difference in the feel of some lasagna noodles, but now I know why, and what I should do when I don't buy ready-to-bake ones.
The ready-to-bake ones are a gift from the universe...no tedious boiling and handling hot, sloppy noodles. And the sauce is absorbed into the noodles for a more cohesive product. Am I a barbarian?
"we don't care who you do it with, just do it al dente"
translation:
just do it to the tooth
Sorry, but I think I'll skip receiving oral sex from whomever thought that up.
When a liberal PC interest group says "boycott this product because we think the owner did or said[..xxx..]", my SOP is to buy a LOT of said product.
Fascism of all kinds must be resisted.
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