Do you mix the meat and sauce with the pasta or eat everything separately?
I have to make a premise: I will probably come across as that Italian guy who goes “ThiSiSnoTHowYoUDOPasTaaa”, even if criticizing anyone’s food is not at all my intention.
Everyone can eat whatever they like in whatever way they like, obviously.
Also, I am aware that in Northern Europe people have unseasoned pasta as a side dish.
What I wonder is: is it a cultural thing? Because there’s no way that people in those countries have never tried to season pasta in the pan together with the sauce.
And there’s also no way on earth that people who have tried to season (sautè) pasta with a sauce have concluded that sticky, overcooked pasta on the side is still better.
Like, you’re forcing me to awkwardly mix it together in the plate trying to avoid making a mess. Not to mention the fact that the part that doesn’t have the sauce on top will get sticky real quick and mix with the sauce in a different way. Whereas the bits covered by the hot sauce will probably overcook.
In the best of cases it will be uneven, with some unseasoned bits and some lumps of sauce with no pasta.
My theory is that it’s a visual thing brought about by Lady and the Tramp.
Anyway, I’m in no way criticizing, I’m sure that a Chinese would shudder at the sight of what I do when I think I’m doing fried rice.
It’s just that I’m super curious, there are some few simple things you can do to make pasta unquestionably better regardless of personal taste (cooked evenly, seasoned evenly etc), so it must be some cultural preference and I’m trying to find out what that is, in the spirit of the sub.
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Do you mix the meat and sauce with the pasta or eat everything separately?
I have to make a premise: I will probably come across as that Italian guy who goes “ThiSiSnoTHowYoUDOPasTaaa”, even if criticizing anyone’s food is not at all my intention.
Everyone can eat whatever they like in whatever way they like, obviously.
Also, I am aware that in Northern Europe people have unseasoned pasta as a side dish.
What I wonder is: is it a cultural thing? Because there’s no way that people in those countries have never tried to season pasta in the pan together with the sauce.
And there’s also no way on earth that people who have tried to season (sautè) pasta with a sauce have concluded that sticky, overcooked pasta on the side is still better.
So, let’s talk about it:)
One other thing that I always wonder is why when foreigners do put sauce on the pasta [they just drop it on top of it on the plate](https://previews.123rf.com/images/bdcollins/bdcollins1703/bdcollins170300240/76153049-pasta-sauce-and-a-meatball-on-top.jpg), instead of at least mixing it with the pasta inside the pot.
Like, you’re forcing me to awkwardly mix it together in the plate trying to avoid making a mess. Not to mention the fact that the part that doesn’t have the sauce on top will get sticky real quick and mix with the sauce in a different way. Whereas the bits covered by the hot sauce will probably overcook.
In the best of cases it will be uneven, with some unseasoned bits and some lumps of sauce with no pasta.
My theory is that it’s a visual thing brought about by Lady and the Tramp.
Anyway, I’m in no way criticizing, I’m sure that a Chinese would shudder at the sight of what I do when I think I’m doing fried rice.
It’s just that I’m super curious, there are some few simple things you can do to make pasta unquestionably better regardless of personal taste (cooked evenly, seasoned evenly etc), so it must be some cultural preference and I’m trying to find out what that is, in the spirit of the sub.