• Zeth0s@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    There are gnocchi, gnocchetti (small gnocchi) that are pasta. What you know as gnocchi are properly called “gnocchi di patate” in italian, i.e. potato gnocchis

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      1 year ago

      That’s the answer, the gnocchi pastas imitate the shape of the potato gnocchi. I also wouldn’t really call potato gnocchi pastas, like if I invite people to eat and say I’m cooking pastas, nobody’s expecting potato gnocchi. But I think in Italy they’re in the same aisle as fresh pastas. The thing is - and op’s picture is correct - that italians actually differenciate between different shapes of pasta, for the simple reason that pasta shapes have functional reasons and different shapes correspond to different dishes.

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        1 year ago

        Yes, and it is also incorrect in that normal people call it spaghetti because that makes people discuss the shitpost and remember it fondly