Is Spaghetti the Sauce or the Noodles?

its the combination of both

Spaghetti is the type of noodles. Like angel hair, rigatoni. Look here.

it’s the type of pasta. just like ravioli only refers to the pasta part. i forget the name of the inside of ravioli..my husband knows.

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@casheroo cheese :P The word ravioli comes from the old Italian word for “to wrap” Just as linguine is Italian for little tongues. And thus concludes random knowledge with uberbatman

@uberbatman tried google, can’t find it. it’s in Heat by Bill Buford. I’ll have to go through the entire book.

the whole is more than just the sum of its parts ;)

It’s the noodle, at a restaurant they usually say, “spaghetti with marinara or meat sauce”.

Spaghetti is the noodles. When you purchase the box, it says “spaghetti.” The sauce may have a number of different labels (spaghetti sauce, marinara, meat-flavored sauce), but it never says just “spaghetti.”

You can have the noodles with the traditional sauce, and then we refer to the dish as “spaghetti,” much the same way we say “to have a hamburger” and actually mean cooked hamburger, bun, and condiments. “Hamburger” is ground meat you purchase in the supermarket, and ”a hamburger” is a food item, ready to eat.

You can serve spaghetti noodles other ways, like just with butter and grated cheese, the way a lot of kids like them, and they are still spaghetti. If you serve the sauce other ways, such as with lasagna, it isn’t spaghetti.

Spaghetti is not needles it is pasta !

@casheroo i was saying google to pmichelle not you :)

@sandystrachan i would hope its not needles…..

Spaghetti is the noodle. It is the name for a long noodle of a certain diameter, usually this is a number listed on the box. Spaghettini is a smaller diameter, fettucini are thick-ish flat noodles, linguini is a smaller fettucini, etc.

Each pasta shape has advantages and disadvantages in picking up certain sauces, the ratio of pasta to sauce in your mouth, etc.

Please enjoy reading through this list of pasta.

Spaghetti is not the noodles it’s the PASTA. Noodles come from an entirely different continent.

Take it from an Italian American…spaghetti is the “noodle”.

@Lightlyseared Marco polo ;)

Noooodle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti

Spaghetti is the plural form of the Italian word spaghetto, which is a diminutive of spago, meaning “thin string” or “twine”. The word spaghetti can be literally translated as “little strings”.

In my husband’s family, anything pasta is “spaghetts.” I don’t know if that’s an Italian thing, or if it’s just more fun for them to say it that way.

The sauce is totally different, especially if my father in law has been hitting the wine bottle a little early on any given day.

Sub Question for those italians in here. Do you call it “Red Sauce” or “Gravy”?

Gravy??? My grandmother would turn over in her grave if anyone called it gravy. It’s not gravy. Gravy you put on potatoes and meat. And Red Sauce? Yuuch!

It’s tomatoe sauce, or marinara sauce, but it can also be clam sauce, pesto sauce, and a whole bunch of other different sauces depending on the ingredients.

Red Sauce :). I hate the gravy thing. My whole family is Italian and they call it gravy instead of red sauce, it drives me crazy.

GRAVY?? I’ve NEVER heard it referred to that way. It’s not gravy.

I KNOW! Gravy is from a meat base IMO

I can’t believe REAL Italians are calling it gravy. They must get SOME reactions from OTHER Italians and non-Italians alike?

I miss spelled noodles thanks for pointing it out .

Noodles is not pasta spaghetti is pasta . Why would you call it noodles ?!?!?!

It’s not noodles. But the questioner is giving 2 choices, i.e., the sauce or the noodles. I’ve heard many Americans refer to it as noodles. Incorrectly, but I’ve heard it.

It is noodles….

Pasta is a wheat noodle.

gravy is a south philly thing. not italian.