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- "Pastan är maten."
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The idea is probably something like this: I'm hungry but the only thing on the table is that bowl of pasta. I ask: Where's the food?
Someone answers: – The pasta is the food.
Not our best sentence, I grant you that.
Manchester, and I've never heard of this 'not pasta' controversy in my life! Of course it's pasta, how could it not be? It's another variety of the same stuff!
Not that it's the authoritative source or anything, but:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/pasta
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/spaghetti
And if you go to say Tesco online the spaghetti is in the 'dried pasta' section
I believe it's a southern thing for pasta to be specific to smaller individual types like penne, fusili, rather than long thin spaghetti or sheets like canneloni or lasagna. Down here I haven't come across anyone or anywhere that thinks it's fine to call spaghetti pasta, because you'd simply call it spaghetti. Same goes for lasagna etc.
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Born and bred Londoner here... Spaghetti is pasta. Or should I say, the spaghetti is the pasta.
Ok, so I admit Spaghetti is a type of pasta.
Although, if I asked for pasta and got spaghetti I'd be a bit shocked. The fact that the average person probably can't recite all the names of the different types of small pasta but everybody knows what spaghetti is, means that if you want spaghetti you'll probably ask for it and not go with the broad label of pasta, and likewise, if you don't want long stringy spaghetti you'll just ask for pasta.
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I listened to it a bunch of times, on slow, and she definitely says hasten, not pastan. Which is weird, but some people do eat "horse." Not me!