• @Quetzalcutlass
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    118 months ago

    Hey, bread is served with meals in most western cuisine. The American part was adding loads of salt and fat on top of those carbs!

    • @[email protected]
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      28 months ago

      Fair enough, though I would argue that the side/appetizer bread doesn’t count because restaurants mostly serve it so the customers gorge themselves on something cheap instead of complaining about tiny main course portions.

    • @[email protected]
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      28 months ago

      The only time you need bread with pasta is at the end, to perform “scarpetta”, cleaning the leftover sauce with the bread.

      • sab
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        8 months ago

        At which point the garlic kind of defeats the purpose.

        After a couple of years in Tuscany I even started buying into the idea that salted bread is also a bit overkill.

    • DarkThoughts
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      8 months ago

      I only know it for things like stews and soups, maybe some fried veggies, not for literal noodles.