I'm more happy paying $15+ if it's stuffed pasta or gnocchi, something besides what (even at good places) comes in a box
― Euler, Friday, 22 August 2014 15:10 (ten years ago) link
but some really wonderful things come in boxes
― Peeking at Peak Petty (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 22 August 2014 15:18 (ten years ago) link
*gets down on one knee*
*restaurant goes silent**olive garden waitstaff gather*
― Peeking at Peak Petty (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 22 August 2014 15:19 (ten years ago) link
*I think, 'thank god the chicken con broccoli was perfect tonight'*
― Peeking at Peak Petty (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 22 August 2014 15:21 (ten years ago) link
there was a multicenturion thread about olive garden wasn't there
it does make me wonder if america wreaks the same godforsaken horrors upon 'pasta' that it does on 'pizza' but tbh the former is probably much more difficult
now i've lobbed that grenade, i'm going to run out amidst your zings
― imago, Friday, 22 August 2014 15:21 (ten years ago) link
I just want to know why they only made the least significant word Italian in 'chicken con broccoli'
― Peeking at Peak Petty (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 22 August 2014 15:23 (ten years ago) link
*calls over shoulder* it's not italian
― imago, Friday, 22 August 2014 15:24 (ten years ago) link
Broccoli is an Italian word
― a spectrum is taunting ur OP (wins), Friday, 22 August 2014 15:25 (ten years ago) link
Think yr projecting
― 龜, Friday, 22 August 2014 15:26 (ten years ago) link
I don't ever mind paying for good meals but I balk at expensive Italian meals.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 August 2014 15:27 (ten years ago) link
Like the worst crimes against pasta weren't committed by my Mum clueless Britishers during the 70s.
― Shugazi (Branwell with an N), Friday, 22 August 2014 15:27 (ten years ago) link
tbf my mum is a terrible woman for the overcooked pasta everything, but I'm not in Britain right now, nor am I seeking to defend its approach to pasta
― imago, Friday, 22 August 2014 15:35 (ten years ago) link
we have one of those imperia pasta machines & you get really good pasta but it must not be worth the bother since it's been like a decade since we used it
Worst argument I've ever had with my partner was the first and only time we tried making pasta with a machine.
― Scary Darey (dog latin), Friday, 22 August 2014 15:37 (ten years ago) link
Pasta attachment on a kitchen machine is a great way to do it.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Friday, 22 August 2014 15:38 (ten years ago) link
ironically it only came with a single broccolo, xp
― 'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Friday, 22 August 2014 15:59 (ten years ago) link
Broccoli is an Italian word― a spectrum is taunting ur OP (wins), Friday, August 22, 2014 8:25 AM (52 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― a spectrum is taunting ur OP (wins), Friday, August 22, 2014 8:25 AM (52 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
hmmmm, it doesn't seem to work
― Peeking at Peak Petty (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 22 August 2014 16:20 (ten years ago) link
I think I'd pay upwards of $20 for really good rice vermicelli or flat rice noodles, but the menu pic threw me.
― Peeking at Peak Petty (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 22 August 2014 18:39 (ten years ago) link
but I guess rice noodles don't count as pasta
― Peeking at Peak Petty (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 22 August 2014 18:44 (ten years ago) link
I don't care what they say about how pasta should be good on its own and Americans over-sauce theirs. Imo you're NEVER paying for the pasta, you're paying for the all-day-cooked wild boar ragu or rustic bolognese sauce, and there better be sauce.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Friday, 22 August 2014 18:53 (ten years ago) link
For me this is all a distant memory, as I fork in mouthfuls of brown rice with egg and cheese binder.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Friday, 22 August 2014 18:54 (ten years ago) link
30 bucks. i'm not likely to buy $30 pasta any time in the near future, but that's the imaginary expenditure cap for when i don't. crab & urchin, please.
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Friday, 22 August 2014 18:55 (ten years ago) link
http://queenbeecoupons.com/wp-content/upload/2012/08/Never-ending-pasta-bowl-olive-garden.jpg
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 August 2014 19:01 (ten years ago) link
a certain menace to 'the bowl is back'
― i was a downy lad, and twee (stevie), Friday, 22 August 2014 20:48 (ten years ago) link
this thread is painful for me as I have friends who refuse to go to pasta or some noodle-themed restaurants as they refuse to pay money for pasta
― mh, Friday, 22 August 2014 20:50 (ten years ago) link
Rice is the greatest starch that exists
― faghetti (fgti), Friday, August 22, 2014 8:52 AM (6 hours ago)
Revote!
PICK A STARCH: Pasta/Noodles vs Potatoes vs Rice
― Cindy Operahouse (WilliamC), Friday, 22 August 2014 20:51 (ten years ago) link
this makes me wonder what the most expensive plate of pasta on an a la carte menu currently is
― tao lin commentboxing (nakhchivan), Friday, 22 August 2014 20:56 (ten years ago) link
it would probably be something dreadful with lobsters, truffles and foie gras
― tao lin commentboxing (nakhchivan), Friday, 22 August 2014 20:57 (ten years ago) link
Gold dust too
― 龜, Friday, 22 August 2014 20:57 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/EtZhOc6.png
― 龜, Friday, 22 August 2014 20:58 (ten years ago) link
was about to catch a plane, but it's closed ;_;
― Peeking at Peak Petty (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 22 August 2014 20:59 (ten years ago) link
2 pounds of regular ol' Maine Lobster seems quaint
I'd expect something fancier and more expensive, like abalone
― 龜, Friday, 22 August 2014 20:59 (ten years ago) link
well that depends. as my friends like to say, "there's abalone, and then there's all-baloney."
― Peeking at Peak Petty (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 22 August 2014 21:00 (ten years ago) link
*polishes monocle*
that reminds me of the
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Emperors_Dinner
the title is quaint given that bismarck is better remembered (outside of russia anyway) than any of those emperors
purposefully ostenatious veblen food is mostly not particularly attractive
some of those dishes even verge on the disgusting, lobster in aspic for example
― tao lin commentboxing (nakhchivan), Friday, 22 August 2014 21:01 (ten years ago) link
man I thought the abalone/baloney joeks were limited to guitar shop banter, but they are all over the internet
― Peeking at Peak Petty (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 22 August 2014 21:05 (ten years ago) link
I wasn't even aware that the average Westerner knows what an abalone is
― 龜, Friday, 22 August 2014 21:07 (ten years ago) link
I'd bet most do not know it so well as food, but every poster in the guitar master threads knows what it is I'd imagine. I've only eaten it once.
― Peeking at Peak Petty (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 22 August 2014 21:11 (ten years ago) link
It's pretty shit tbf
― 龜, Friday, 22 August 2014 21:13 (ten years ago) link
you can get abalone flavour instant noodles at the supermarket here
― a spectrum is taunting ur OP (wins), Friday, 22 August 2014 21:16 (ten years ago) link
Assuming it comes with no flavour packet
― 龜, Friday, 22 August 2014 21:20 (ten years ago) link
just a packet of sand cluster crunches
― Peeking at Peak Petty (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 22 August 2014 21:22 (ten years ago) link
well it's also chicken flavour
― a spectrum is taunting ur OP (wins), Friday, 22 August 2014 21:23 (ten years ago) link
$30?
I mean, a bowl of 'whatever' chain restaurant pasta is $15+ these days so at least double that for good shit.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 22 August 2014 22:07 (ten years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 00:01 (ten years ago) link
A bowl of pasta liberally laced with morels and black truffles, prepared by an expert, might be worth about $50 to me. For $75 I expect a meal, not just a bowl of pasta. I'm old. I'm cheap. What can I say?
― Aimless, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 00:23 (ten years ago) link
The answer is clearly $30, seeing's I spent €20 on some pasta the other day (traditional Sardianian pasta balls with shellfish and shrimp), which converts to $26
― imago, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 08:41 (ten years ago) link
Ah, but is that as high as you would go?
― you couldn't even wear a fedora if your lifes depended on it (stevie), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 08:58 (ten years ago) link
Pretty much! I doubt anywhere I go in the UK will be as expensive, and this was at the upper end of the primi piatti
Could have voted $40 on the basis that something might be €25 and damnedly tempting, but this episode is over, I fear
― imago, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 09:33 (ten years ago) link
Non-Americans please convert and adjust appropriately, thanks
do we have to adjust against the big mac index?
― ^ 諷刺 (ken c), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 10:57 (ten years ago) link