but I guess rice noodles don't count as pasta
― Peeking at Peak Petty (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 22 August 2014 18:44 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine years ago) link
Gold dust too
― 龜, Friday, 22 August 2014 20:57 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/EtZhOc6.png
― 龜, Friday, 22 August 2014 20:58 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine years ago) link
I wasn't even aware that the average Westerner knows what an abalone is
― 龜, Friday, 22 August 2014 21:07 (nine 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 (nine years ago) link
It's pretty shit tbf
― 龜, Friday, 22 August 2014 21:13 (nine 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 (nine years ago) link
Assuming it comes with no flavour packet
― 龜, Friday, 22 August 2014 21:20 (nine years ago) link
just a packet of sand cluster crunches
― Peeking at Peak Petty (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 22 August 2014 21:22 (nine years ago) link
well it's also chicken flavour
― a spectrum is taunting ur OP (wins), Friday, 22 August 2014 21:23 (nine 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 (nine years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 00:01 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine years ago) link
I want to have some abalone cannelloni
― ^ 諷刺 (ken c), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 11:10 (nine years ago) link
I think I agree. If someone else was offering to pay for it, however...
― you couldn't even wear a fedora if your lifes depended on it (stevie), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 12:01 (nine years ago) link
…this thread becomes irrelevant? :P
― imago, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 12:27 (nine years ago) link
... we'd have to add "blow bill gates" as one of the answer
― ^ 諷刺 (ken c), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 15:04 (nine years ago) link
mm, carbonara
― imago, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 19:43 (nine years ago) link
$20, maybe. $30+ for a meal is like a once a year expenditure, and I'm not gonna spend it on pasta.
― jmm, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 19:50 (nine years ago) link
$25, but it'd have to be some pretty damn good pasta with a non-humiliating portion size.
― Rihannamator (get bent), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 20:01 (nine years ago) link
Paying for pasta? I'm perfectly capable of boiling water at home, thanks.
― Your Favorite Album in the Cutout Bin, Wednesday, 27 August 2014 20:07 (nine years ago) link
get bent otm
non-humiliating portion size is key
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 27 August 2014 20:52 (nine years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 28 August 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
i was just talking to my wife and there's a specific pasta dish we've ordered and would order again and i just checked and it costs $34 :/
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 28 August 2014 00:07 (nine years ago) link
with a non-humiliating portion size.
fucking otm. this so common. you are doing eating in about 7 minutes because there is basically no food on your plate
― marcos, Thursday, 28 August 2014 16:19 (nine years ago) link
you are doingdone eating
That is otm, but I'd probably finish any portion of lasagna in about 7 minutes. So I just don't order it anymore.
― post...aftermath (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 28 August 2014 16:25 (nine years ago) link
It takes at least 7 minutes for lasagne to cool down enough for me to start eating.
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 28 August 2014 16:29 (nine years ago) link
I read it in the opposite way, i.e. portion sizes are usually so huge that I feel humiliated for not even finishing half the plate before asking for a doggie bag
― 龜, Thursday, 28 August 2014 16:36 (nine years ago) link
It can go either way. This place is the worst in that the portion sizes are over the top, and the dishes are all just pasta+sauce+meat variants. It's difficult to see in the photos due to the lighting, but there are shark and animatronic Italian chef decorations inside.
― post...aftermath (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 28 August 2014 16:43 (nine years ago) link
You also have the option to drink wine from a self-service container.
― post...aftermath (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 28 August 2014 16:48 (nine years ago) link