Pasta for dinner

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's funny how some posters make generalizations on how Italians eat based on a sample size of the dozen they personally know. Different Italians eat different things and have different ideas of what a "proper" meal is.

OP, your guest was rude for saying out loud what everyone else would be thinking. Your being Italian has nothing to do with this, just buttered pasta is kind of a weird kids meal for most people. Next time this situation occurs cut up some apples and carrot sticks to make it look like a "proper" kids meal. Now, try to move on.

WTF are you even talking about? Have you ever set foot outside your house?

“Just buttered pasta” is on the kids’ menu at almost EVERY restaurant in the United States.

I just checked these kid's menus:

Olive Garden: Pasta with Alfredo or Marinara sauce, Mac and Cheese - no buttered pasta
Chili's: Pasta with Cheesy Chicken and Mac and Cheese - no buttered pasta
Applebee's: Pasta with Chicken Alfredo and Mac and Cheese - no buttered pasta

Buttered pasta is on the kid's menu at Cheesecake Factory and Noodles & Company. But certainly not "almost every" or even most restaurants in the US.

Sure, you could request no alfredo sauce, but buttered pasta isn't on the kid's menu.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's funny how some posters make generalizations on how Italians eat based on a sample size of the dozen they personally know. Different Italians eat different things and have different ideas of what a "proper" meal is.

OP, your guest was rude for saying out loud what everyone else would be thinking. Your being Italian has nothing to do with this, just buttered pasta is kind of a weird kids meal for most people. Next time this situation occurs cut up some apples and carrot sticks to make it look like a "proper" kids meal. Now, try to move on.

WTF are you even talking about? Have you ever set foot outside your house?

“Just buttered pasta” is on the kids’ menu at almost EVERY restaurant in the United States.

I just checked these kid's menus:

Olive Garden: Pasta with Alfredo or Marinara sauce, Mac and Cheese - no buttered pasta
Chili's: Pasta with Cheesy Chicken and Mac and Cheese - no buttered pasta
Applebee's: Pasta with Chicken Alfredo and Mac and Cheese - no buttered pasta

Buttered pasta is on the kid's menu at Cheesecake Factory and Noodles & Company. But certainly not "almost every" or even most restaurants in the US.

Sure, you could request no alfredo sauce, but buttered pasta isn't on the kid's menu.

You checked 5 restaurants. Yeah, I forgot there are only 5 restaurants in the US.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's funny how some posters make generalizations on how Italians eat based on a sample size of the dozen they personally know. Different Italians eat different things and have different ideas of what a "proper" meal is.

OP, your guest was rude for saying out loud what everyone else would be thinking. Your being Italian has nothing to do with this, just buttered pasta is kind of a weird kids meal for most people. Next time this situation occurs cut up some apples and carrot sticks to make it look like a "proper" kids meal. Now, try to move on.

WTF are you even talking about? Have you ever set foot outside your house?

“Just buttered pasta” is on the kids’ menu at almost EVERY restaurant in the United States.

I just checked these kid's menus:

Olive Garden: Pasta with Alfredo or Marinara sauce, Mac and Cheese - no buttered pasta
Chili's: Pasta with Cheesy Chicken and Mac and Cheese - no buttered pasta
Applebee's: Pasta with Chicken Alfredo and Mac and Cheese - no buttered pasta

Buttered pasta is on the kid's menu at Cheesecake Factory and Noodles & Company. But certainly not "almost every" or even most restaurants in the US.

Sure, you could request no alfredo sauce, but buttered pasta isn't on the kid's menu.

You checked 5 restaurants. Yeah, I forgot there are only 5 restaurants in the US.

Also the 3 that don’t have it are restaurants that I don’t know anybody who goes to. In fact, I haven’t been to any of those 3 in the last 20 years at least.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What restaurants are you guys going to that offer buttered noodles on the menu? I see a lot of mac n cheese but I don't think I've ever seen buttered noodles.

Restaurants will use butter rather than sauce if you ask. I like chicken ziti and broccoli but hate Alfredo sauce. I’ll ask for butter instead, no problem.

Why would someone ask for that lol. I’m not going to a restaurant to spend money to be served a poverty meal.

Op has never come back to this has she?

That was me. I like basic food with no sauces or condiments or anything on the food. The butter keeps it moist. I wouldn’t think it was odd at all that she gave everyone a bowl of pasta and nothing else.

I don't think it's odd for a restaurant to honor a request for very plain food. Some people do prefer their food plain, and some people prefer their food with more flavor and texture.

I think it's less than ideal to assume that certain guests would automatically like plain food, and to not offer them the same sauce you offer other guests.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's funny how some posters make generalizations on how Italians eat based on a sample size of the dozen they personally know. Different Italians eat different things and have different ideas of what a "proper" meal is.

OP, your guest was rude for saying out loud what everyone else would be thinking. Your being Italian has nothing to do with this, just buttered pasta is kind of a weird kids meal for most people. Next time this situation occurs cut up some apples and carrot sticks to make it look like a "proper" kids meal. Now, try to move on.

WTF are you even talking about? Have you ever set foot outside your house?

“Just buttered pasta” is on the kids’ menu at almost EVERY restaurant in the United States.

I just checked these kid's menus:

Olive Garden: Pasta with Alfredo or Marinara sauce, Mac and Cheese - no buttered pasta
Chili's: Pasta with Cheesy Chicken and Mac and Cheese - no buttered pasta
Applebee's: Pasta with Chicken Alfredo and Mac and Cheese - no buttered pasta

Buttered pasta is on the kid's menu at Cheesecake Factory and Noodles & Company. But certainly not "almost every" or even most restaurants in the US.

Sure, you could request no alfredo sauce, but buttered pasta isn't on the kid's menu.

That’s so kewl

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What restaurants are you guys going to that offer buttered noodles on the menu? I see a lot of mac n cheese but I don't think I've ever seen buttered noodles.

Restaurants will use butter rather than sauce if you ask. I like chicken ziti and broccoli but hate Alfredo sauce. I’ll ask for butter instead, no problem.

Yes, they will. They will also serve you just a side of broccoli, or just ice cream if you ask. That doesn't mean that just broccoli or just ice cream isn't a surprising thing to be offered as an entire meal when you are expecting lunch.

Also ziti with butter, chicken and broccoli, is very different from ziti with just butter.

+1

This is weird food to serve to invited guests.
I have never ever seen a single restaurant offering pasta with butter in their menu.

The buttered noodles were for the kids. Literally every restaurant I have taken my kids to in the US (except Mexican restaurants) has had buttered noodles on the kids menu. This has also been offered to my kids in restaurants in Europe (not Italy). Where in the world are you dining that you haven't see this before???

Why don't you name the restaurants that serve buttered noodles, weirdo?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's funny how some posters make generalizations on how Italians eat based on a sample size of the dozen they personally know. Different Italians eat different things and have different ideas of what a "proper" meal is.

OP, your guest was rude for saying out loud what everyone else would be thinking. Your being Italian has nothing to do with this, just buttered pasta is kind of a weird kids meal for most people. Next time this situation occurs cut up some apples and carrot sticks to make it look like a "proper" kids meal. Now, try to move on.

WTF are you even talking about? Have you ever set foot outside your house?

“Just buttered pasta” is on the kids’ menu at almost EVERY restaurant in the United States.

I just checked these kid's menus:

Olive Garden: Pasta with Alfredo or Marinara sauce, Mac and Cheese - no buttered pasta
Chili's: Pasta with Cheesy Chicken and Mac and Cheese - no buttered pasta
Applebee's: Pasta with Chicken Alfredo and Mac and Cheese - no buttered pasta

Buttered pasta is on the kid's menu at Cheesecake Factory and Noodles & Company. But certainly not "almost every" or even most restaurants in the US.

Sure, you could request no alfredo sauce, but buttered pasta isn't on the kid's menu.

You checked 5 restaurants. Yeah, I forgot there are only 5 restaurants in the US.

Also the 3 that don’t have it are restaurants that I don’t know anybody who goes to. In fact, I haven’t been to any of those 3 in the last 20 years at least.

I don't think that you go out to eat, depression-era mommy!!

[Anonymous]

Meanwhile, I am sitting here and thinking that Americans eat like poor people. LOL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's funny how some posters make generalizations on how Italians eat based on a sample size of the dozen they personally know. Different Italians eat different things and have different ideas of what a "proper" meal is.

OP, your guest was rude for saying out loud what everyone else would be thinking. Your being Italian has nothing to do with this, just buttered pasta is kind of a weird kids meal for most people. Next time this situation occurs cut up some apples and carrot sticks to make it look like a "proper" kids meal. Now, try to move on.

WTF are you even talking about? Have you ever set foot outside your house?

“Just buttered pasta” is on the kids’ menu at almost EVERY restaurant in the United States.

I just checked these kid's menus:

Olive Garden: Pasta with Alfredo or Marinara sauce, Mac and Cheese - no buttered pasta
Chili's: Pasta with Cheesy Chicken and Mac and Cheese - no buttered pasta
Applebee's: Pasta with Chicken Alfredo and Mac and Cheese - no buttered pasta

Buttered pasta is on the kid's menu at Cheesecake Factory and Noodles & Company. But certainly not "almost every" or even most restaurants in the US.

Sure, you could request no alfredo sauce, but buttered pasta isn't on the kid's menu.

Hello 1992

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's funny how some posters make generalizations on how Italians eat based on a sample size of the dozen they personally know. Different Italians eat different things and have different ideas of what a "proper" meal is.

OP, your guest was rude for saying out loud what everyone else would be thinking. Your being Italian has nothing to do with this, just buttered pasta is kind of a weird kids meal for most people. Next time this situation occurs cut up some apples and carrot sticks to make it look like a "proper" kids meal. Now, try to move on.

WTF are you even talking about? Have you ever set foot outside your house?

“Just buttered pasta” is on the kids’ menu at almost EVERY restaurant in the United States.

I just checked these kid's menus:

Olive Garden: Pasta with Alfredo or Marinara sauce, Mac and Cheese - no buttered pasta
Chili's: Pasta with Cheesy Chicken and Mac and Cheese - no buttered pasta
Applebee's: Pasta with Chicken Alfredo and Mac and Cheese - no buttered pasta

Buttered pasta is on the kid's menu at Cheesecake Factory and Noodles & Company. But certainly not "almost every" or even most restaurants in the US.

Sure, you could request no alfredo sauce, but buttered pasta isn't on the kid's menu.

Hello 1992

This is why you should take online forums with a grain of salt. Apparently we are being scolded by the Applebees crowd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's funny how some posters make generalizations on how Italians eat based on a sample size of the dozen they personally know. Different Italians eat different things and have different ideas of what a "proper" meal is.

OP, your guest was rude for saying out loud what everyone else would be thinking. Your being Italian has nothing to do with this, just buttered pasta is kind of a weird kids meal for most people. Next time this situation occurs cut up some apples and carrot sticks to make it look like a "proper" kids meal. Now, try to move on.

WTF are you even talking about? Have you ever set foot outside your house?

“Just buttered pasta” is on the kids’ menu at almost EVERY restaurant in the United States.

I just checked these kid's menus:

Olive Garden: Pasta with Alfredo or Marinara sauce, Mac and Cheese - no buttered pasta
Chili's: Pasta with Cheesy Chicken and Mac and Cheese - no buttered pasta
Applebee's: Pasta with Chicken Alfredo and Mac and Cheese - no buttered pasta

Buttered pasta is on the kid's menu at Cheesecake Factory and Noodles & Company. But certainly not "almost every" or even most restaurants in the US.

Sure, you could request no alfredo sauce, but buttered pasta isn't on the kid's menu.

You checked 5 restaurants. Yeah, I forgot there are only 5 restaurants in the US.

Also the 3 that don’t have it are restaurants that I don’t know anybody who goes to. In fact, I haven’t been to any of those 3 in the last 20 years at least.

I don't think that you go out to eat, depression-era mommy!!

Yeah all the cool kids are definitely going to applebees, chilis and olive garden. i’m 43-these restaurants were cool when I was like 10. The only people I know still going there are like 80.

[Anonymous]

Can we push to 50 pages

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's funny how some posters make generalizations on how Italians eat based on a sample size of the dozen they personally know. Different Italians eat different things and have different ideas of what a "proper" meal is.

OP, your guest was rude for saying out loud what everyone else would be thinking. Your being Italian has nothing to do with this, just buttered pasta is kind of a weird kids meal for most people. Next time this situation occurs cut up some apples and carrot sticks to make it look like a "proper" kids meal. Now, try to move on.

WTF are you even talking about? Have you ever set foot outside your house?

“Just buttered pasta” is on the kids’ menu at almost EVERY restaurant in the United States.

I just checked these kid's menus:

Olive Garden: Pasta with Alfredo or Marinara sauce, Mac and Cheese - no buttered pasta
Chili's: Pasta with Cheesy Chicken and Mac and Cheese - no buttered pasta
Applebee's: Pasta with Chicken Alfredo and Mac and Cheese - no buttered pasta

Buttered pasta is on the kid's menu at Cheesecake Factory and Noodles & Company. But certainly not "almost every" or even most restaurants in the US.

Sure, you could request no alfredo sauce, but buttered pasta isn't on the kid's menu.

You checked 5 restaurants. Yeah, I forgot there are only 5 restaurants in the US.

Also the 3 that don’t have it are restaurants that I don’t know anybody who goes to. In fact, I haven’t been to any of those 3 in the last 20 years at least.

Yeah. I don’t go to these restaurants, but I can’t recall any I do go to offering buttered noodles at all as a main dish. Kids menu or not. It’s not common.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's funny how some posters make generalizations on how Italians eat based on a sample size of the dozen they personally know. Different Italians eat different things and have different ideas of what a "proper" meal is.

OP, your guest was rude for saying out loud what everyone else would be thinking. Your being Italian has nothing to do with this, just buttered pasta is kind of a weird kids meal for most people. Next time this situation occurs cut up some apples and carrot sticks to make it look like a "proper" kids meal. Now, try to move on.

WTF are you even talking about? Have you ever set foot outside your house?

“Just buttered pasta” is on the kids’ menu at almost EVERY restaurant in the United States.

I just checked these kid's menus:

Olive Garden: Pasta with Alfredo or Marinara sauce, Mac and Cheese - no buttered pasta
Chili's: Pasta with Cheesy Chicken and Mac and Cheese - no buttered pasta
Applebee's: Pasta with Chicken Alfredo and Mac and Cheese - no buttered pasta

Buttered pasta is on the kid's menu at Cheesecake Factory and Noodles & Company. But certainly not "almost every" or even most restaurants in the US.

Sure, you could request no alfredo sauce, but buttered pasta isn't on the kid's menu.

You checked 5 restaurants. Yeah, I forgot there are only 5 restaurants in the US.

Also the 3 that don’t have it are restaurants that I don’t know anybody who goes to. In fact, I haven’t been to any of those 3 in the last 20 years at least.

I don't think that you go out to eat, depression-era mommy!!

Yeah all the cool kids are definitely going to applebees, chilis and olive garden. i’m 43-these restaurants were cool when I was like 10. The only people I know still going there are like 80.

Ironically, the 80 year olds would probably appreciate the buttered pasta.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile, I am sitting here and thinking that Americans eat like poor people. LOL.

There must be some overlap with the people who eat sticks of butter dipped in sugar.