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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Hawkmoon on June 10, 2021, 07:18:53 PM
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My local stupidmarket (part of a large regional chain) recently stopped carrying store brand vermicelli. It's not just my branch -- the corporation has dropped the product. I happen to like vermicelli -- angel hair is too fine, and what they call "thin" spaghetti isn't all that thin. Like Goldilocks and the three bears' porridge, vermicelli is just right.
I e-mailed them to complain, and I got back a form message about discontinuing products that aren't popular. So who knows more about pasta than Italians, right? So I turn to those of you who are Italian -- is vermicelli a popular grade of pasta, or is it something that doesn't get used vry often?
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Are there any Italians in the house? (ftp://Are there any Italians in the house?)
<speaking with my hands flailing> No. </Italian>
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I can't claim to have any Italian in me but I once had a little of me in a cute Italian lass.
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Is Irish close enough?
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How about reading the post and answering the question ...
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Qualcuno ha bisogno di uno Snickers
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google è tuo amico. "dove posso comprare vermicelli"
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vermicelli to me is for thai/laotian food.
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No, but I did take 2 years of Latin in high school.
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Most people don't know vermicelli from a veitchberry. They think spaghetti means any long round piece of pasta.
That's my 2 lira worth.
bob
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Sorry, Angel Hair for me. please.
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Spaghetti is spaghetti to me. About 2.5 mm in diameter.Thicker is "thick spaghetti," thinner is "thin spaghetti."
My long term enduring question about Italian stuff is "Do Italian kids pronounce it 'pisgetti?'"
My stepfather was a member of a large and far flung Italian family. He always pronounced Mozzarella as "mootzarell'"with a silent "a" at the end. His favorite table joke was "Hey. No more-a for you. You had pulenta."
He had a heck of a sense of humor. Before they were married, he'd pick up Mom up in his car, which was only washed and polished on her, the passenger, side of the car. When it was pointed out to her (not by me), she says she didn't know whether to laugh at it as a joke or be furious at the subterfuge.
Re OP: When a merchant removes a product, he's got a reason, and there's no sense complaining. I gnashed my teeth and rent my garments when my otherwise favorite store took my favorite cartridge razor off their shelves. But I knew all my rending and gnashing would not matter. Usually the decision is made by toothless and naked computers.
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Not sure why you're asking for Italians. Real Italians (as opposed to Americans of Italian descent) pretty much shake their heads at how we use spaghetti, vermicelli, and capellini.
Italian vermicelli is typically thicker than spaghetti. Vermicellini, or "thin vermicelli" is thinner than spaghetti and thicker than capellini.
It's only in America and some other english speaking countries where vermicelli is in between capellini and spaghetti.
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Have a WalMart nearby?
https://www.walmart.com/search/?query=vermicelli&typeahead=verm
Brad
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Are we speaking of the worm or the spaghetti?
https://youtu.be/1seWmy53FZk?t=17 (https://youtu.be/1seWmy53FZk?t=17)
:laugh:
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Have a WalMart nearby?
https://www.walmart.com/search/?query=vermicelli&typeahead=verm
Brad
Link doesn't work, but there is a Super Walmart within range that has a supermarket section, so it's worth a try. Thanks.
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You can point, click and wait also:
https://www.amazon.com/Muellers-Vermicelli-Pasta-16-Pack/dp/B07BF9QKMM
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Well that's expensive as hell...
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(https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/ab276406-c1ed-47bc-b8e2-e89f4e282030_1.bd8bea9e240c145852a1a8e7d60f0434.jpeg)
I guess somebody Numbered it. Thin Spaghetti #9?
No information on the actual diameter. I hope Saint George isn't offended.
Go figure.