Pasta for dinner

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Anonymous wrote:Husband and I are both Italian. His parents “are off the boat”. My grandparents were too and my parents were born in this country.

We have always had pasta for lunch or dinner.

I was with my kids (girl age 6 and boy 4) and a friend and her kids at a park. I invited them back to our house for lunch.

I made pasta-penne with butter for the kids and vodka sauce for myself and my friend.

She looked at it and said “is this lunch? A bowl of pasta?”

I said yes this is what we usually have. She looked at me oddly and didn’t say anything else and ate.

But what a weird response.

What is weird is serving a lunch with no protein and no vegetables (and probably no whole grains). And, it was rude for her to point it out

A 2 oz (dried) serving of standard white flour pasta alone has 7-8 grams of protein, FYI. And anyone criticizing a meal another serves to them is a poorly-raised moron.

Any child eating a Western diet is getting more than enough protein. It always surprises me that most Americans don't understand this.

I always picture women on their fainting couches, wasting away to nothing, swooning "protein, I need protein!"

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My guess is OPs guest has found the thread and is trying to clear her name.

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Anonymous wrote:I am Indian and we often serve rice or roti/paratha with a potato/root vegetable dish. I’ve had many questions about this.

But do you just serve your guests a potato or bowl of rice for lunch? One or the other, definitely not both, and just butter for sauce.

This is such a good example. Giving your guest a potato is super weird. Serving up a loaded baked potato (butter, cheese, bacon, sour cream, chives, maybe some broccoli) would actually be a meal. Buttered noodles = not a meal. Pasta with some kind of sauce = meal.

Jesus Christ lady, holy heart attack on a spud! Give me the buttered noodles any day over the monstrosity you serve your guests: butter AND cheese AND bacon AND chives AND broccoli.

You will eat your potato and you will like it. Otherwise never come back again!

I actually love a baked potato, but just with butter and a bit of salt. Hold the rest.

The moral of this story is you eat what you are served. Nobody asked how you liked it.

Yes, exactly. That's why the suggestion of the loaded baked potato instead of what was served is so stupid.

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Anonymous wrote:I am Indian and we often serve rice or roti/paratha with a potato/root vegetable dish. I’ve had many questions about this.

But do you just serve your guests a potato or bowl of rice for lunch? One or the other, definitely not both, and just butter for sauce.

This is such a good example. Giving your guest a potato is super weird. Serving up a loaded baked potato (butter, cheese, bacon, sour cream, chives, maybe some broccoli) would actually be a meal. Buttered noodles = not a meal. Pasta with some kind of sauce = meal.

Jesus Christ lady, holy heart attack on a spud! Give me the buttered noodles any day over the monstrosity you serve your guests: butter AND cheese AND bacon AND chives AND broccoli.

You will eat your potato and you will like it. Otherwise never come back again!

I actually love a baked potato, but just with butter and a bit of salt. Hold the rest.

The moral of this story is you eat what you are served. Nobody asked how you liked it.

I think it's fine to decline the pasta, without saying "ugh, that's it?"

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Anonymous wrote:I am Indian and we often serve rice or roti/paratha with a potato/root vegetable dish. I’ve had many questions about this.

But do you just serve your guests a potato or bowl of rice for lunch? One or the other, definitely not both, and just butter for sauce.

This is such a good example. Giving your guest a potato is super weird. Serving up a loaded baked potato (butter, cheese, bacon, sour cream, chives, maybe some broccoli) would actually be a meal. Buttered noodles = not a meal. Pasta with some kind of sauce = meal.

Jesus Christ lady, holy heart attack on a spud! Give me the buttered noodles any day over the monstrosity you serve your guests: butter AND cheese AND bacon AND chives AND broccoli.

You will eat your potato and you will like it. Otherwise never come back again!

I actually love a baked potato, but just with butter and a bit of salt. Hold the rest.

The moral of this story is you eat what you are served. Nobody asked how you liked it.

I think it's fine to decline the pasta, without saying "ugh, that's it?"

Except no ugh was uttered. You added it in for dramatic flair.

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Anonymous wrote:I am Indian and we often serve rice or roti/paratha with a potato/root vegetable dish. I’ve had many questions about this.

But do you just serve your guests a potato or bowl of rice for lunch? One or the other, definitely not both, and just butter for sauce.

This is such a good example. Giving your guest a potato is super weird. Serving up a loaded baked potato (butter, cheese, bacon, sour cream, chives, maybe some broccoli) would actually be a meal. Buttered noodles = not a meal. Pasta with some kind of sauce = meal.

Jesus Christ lady, holy heart attack on a spud! Give me the buttered noodles any day over the monstrosity you serve your guests: butter AND cheese AND bacon AND chives AND broccoli.

You will eat your potato and you will like it. Otherwise never come back again!

I actually love a baked potato, but just with butter and a bit of salt. Hold the rest.

The moral of this story is you eat what you are served. Nobody asked how you liked it.

I think it's fine to decline the pasta, without saying "ugh, that's it?"

Except no ugh was uttered. You added it in for dramatic flair.

It's implied. No adult could possibly be so confused that when they are offered lunch and then handed a bowl of pasta that they honestly have to ask if this is the lunch.

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the guest is an ungrateful POS

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Pasta for lunch or dinner is totally fine. Plain pasta for anyone other than a very picky kid seems like a very sad meal.

That being said, your friend is rude and should not have said anything.

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Anonymous wrote:I am Indian and we often serve rice or roti/paratha with a potato/root vegetable dish. I’ve had many questions about this.

But do you just serve your guests a potato or bowl of rice for lunch? One or the other, definitely not both, and just butter for sauce.

This is such a good example. Giving your guest a potato is super weird. Serving up a loaded baked potato (butter, cheese, bacon, sour cream, chives, maybe some broccoli) would actually be a meal. Buttered noodles = not a meal. Pasta with some kind of sauce = meal.

Jesus Christ lady, holy heart attack on a spud! Give me the buttered noodles any day over the monstrosity you serve your guests: butter AND cheese AND bacon AND chives AND broccoli.

You will eat your potato and you will like it. Otherwise never come back again!

I actually love a baked potato, but just with butter and a bit of salt. Hold the rest.

The moral of this story is you eat what you are served. Nobody asked how you liked it.

I think it's fine to decline the pasta, without saying "ugh, that's it?"

Except no ugh was uttered. You added it in for dramatic flair.

It's implied. No adult could possibly be so confused that when they are offered lunch and then handed a bowl of pasta that they honestly have to ask if this is the lunch.

I'm sure you can find anything in a comment if you look hard enough. Maybe it was said brightly. Changes the tone completely. You made this for us?!

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Anonymous wrote:I am Indian and we often serve rice or roti/paratha with a potato/root vegetable dish. I’ve had many questions about this.

But do you just serve your guests a potato or bowl of rice for lunch? One or the other, definitely not both, and just butter for sauce.

This is such a good example. Giving your guest a potato is super weird. Serving up a loaded baked potato (butter, cheese, bacon, sour cream, chives, maybe some broccoli) would actually be a meal. Buttered noodles = not a meal. Pasta with some kind of sauce = meal.

Jesus Christ lady, holy heart attack on a spud! Give me the buttered noodles any day over the monstrosity you serve your guests: butter AND cheese AND bacon AND chives AND broccoli.

You will eat your potato and you will like it. Otherwise never come back again!

I actually love a baked potato, but just with butter and a bit of salt. Hold the rest.

The moral of this story is you eat what you are served. Nobody asked how you liked it.

I think it's fine to decline the pasta, without saying "ugh, that's it?"

Except no ugh was uttered. You added it in for dramatic flair.

It's implied. No adult could possibly be so confused that when they are offered lunch and then handed a bowl of pasta that they honestly have to ask if this is the lunch.

I'm sure you can find anything in a comment if you look hard enough. Maybe it was said brightly. Changes the tone completely. You made this for us?!

You're reaching so hard I'm concerned you'll hurt your back.

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Regardless of how odd the meal seemed, it was not so bad that it required a comment. People are acting like lunch was a ketchup packet and a cigarette. Ok, now that is bad enough to warrant a comment. Buttered noodles is within one standard deviation of normal.

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Anonymous wrote:I am Indian and we often serve rice or roti/paratha with a potato/root vegetable dish. I’ve had many questions about this.

But do you just serve your guests a potato or bowl of rice for lunch? One or the other, definitely not both, and just butter for sauce.

This is such a good example. Giving your guest a potato is super weird. Serving up a loaded baked potato (butter, cheese, bacon, sour cream, chives, maybe some broccoli) would actually be a meal. Buttered noodles = not a meal. Pasta with some kind of sauce = meal.

Jesus Christ lady, holy heart attack on a spud! Give me the buttered noodles any day over the monstrosity you serve your guests: butter AND cheese AND bacon AND chives AND broccoli.

You will eat your potato and you will like it. Otherwise never come back again!

I actually love a baked potato, but just with butter and a bit of salt. Hold the rest.

The moral of this story is you eat what you are served. Nobody asked how you liked it.

I think it's fine to decline the pasta, without saying "ugh, that's it?"

Except no ugh was uttered. You added it in for dramatic flair.

It's implied. No adult could possibly be so confused that when they are offered lunch and then handed a bowl of pasta that they honestly have to ask if this is the lunch.

If it was that big of a deal OP would have been back by now. People seem more put out about this possible slight than OP. The guest was called a "POS" by some who are way too worked up over it. Why not just give the benefit of doubt?

I'm sure you can find anything in a comment if you look hard enough. Maybe it was said brightly. Changes the tone completely. You made this for us?!

You're reaching so hard I'm concerned you'll hurt your back.

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Anonymous wrote:I am Indian and we often serve rice or roti/paratha with a potato/root vegetable dish. I’ve had many questions about this.

But do you just serve your guests a potato or bowl of rice for lunch? One or the other, definitely not both, and just butter for sauce.

This is such a good example. Giving your guest a potato is super weird. Serving up a loaded baked potato (butter, cheese, bacon, sour cream, chives, maybe some broccoli) would actually be a meal. Buttered noodles = not a meal. Pasta with some kind of sauce = meal.

Jesus Christ lady, holy heart attack on a spud! Give me the buttered noodles any day over the monstrosity you serve your guests: butter AND cheese AND bacon AND chives AND broccoli.

You will eat your potato and you will like it. Otherwise never come back again!

I actually love a baked potato, but just with butter and a bit of salt. Hold the rest.

The moral of this story is you eat what you are served. Nobody asked how you liked it.

I think it's fine to decline the pasta, without saying "ugh, that's it?"

Except no ugh was uttered. You added it in for dramatic flair.

It's implied. No adult could possibly be so confused that when they are offered lunch and then handed a bowl of pasta that they honestly have to ask if this is the lunch.

I'm sure you can find anything in a comment if you look hard enough. Maybe it was said brightly. Changes the tone completely. You made this for us?!

You're reaching so hard I'm concerned you'll hurt your back.

If it was that big of a deal OP would have been back by now. People seem more put out about this possible slight than OP. The guest was called a "POS" by some who are way too worked up over it. Why not just give the benefit of doubt?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, next time you should consider serving spiced and lightly fried tuna. With some Code Red Mountain Dew, since water doesn't really quench the thirst.

Or chicken salad!

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Anonymous wrote:OP, next time you should consider serving spiced and lightly fried tuna. With some Code Red Mountain Dew, since water doesn't really quench the thirst.

Or chicken salad!

The chicken salad will have nuts, grapes, dried apricot, and celery in it. End of discussion.