no its not you don't say paw like a dogs paw you say PA-stuh. I am pronouncing it the same way it is said in Italian but in English which is the legitimate way of saying it.
Fresh pasta has its own appeal, but for me, there's nothing like hard pasta boiled soft with generous portions of salt right up to to the point of firm and dente.
China was making pasta from millet cereal grains around 4000 years ago. So for the sake of using the term "pasta"... China has the record on that. As far as European countries using it... the main difference is that they used Durum wheat and the middle east and south America has cous cous... which is essentially a durum wheat, ground barley and corn.
@Marknopfler88 Northern China used wheat to make noodles. Wheat and egg. Southern China made noodles out of rice because rice grows easily in the South while wheat grows predominantly in the North. Even in cuisine, a lot of the mantou and staples of Northern Chinese involve wheat. That is also what the Mongolians were introduced in the North and it is probably that Marco Polo did in fact had wheat-noodles and I would surprised if he also had rice noodles.
@andrewfyip that's true, but i only wanted to say that in Italy we had an independent development of pasta and spaghetti, not a follower of China tradition. The way of baking and cooking of chinese and italian pasta is very different, and pasta was eaten MUCH before Marco Polo returned in Venice. It's just a legend that Marco Polo brought back pasta from China; remember that pasta is more eaten in the South than in the North, where Venice is. But the real deep tradition of pasta is in the South
Japan is nicknamed the computerised nation, but they didn't invent computers. Italians have incredible cooking prowess, but they weren't the first to refine a grain into a pasta. Pasta itself can be made from any grain, it's just wheat happens to be the tastiest. But don't get me wrong, I think Italy is a far superior country in terms of pasta.
"So quickly popular did pasta become that by the fifteenth century, it occupied a prime position in Italian cooking." No, it's pretty sound. It is a little more artistic or poetic, perhaps, than we're used to, but it's not "bad grammar". He's pronouncing it "past-a" because he is Canadian and that is how it is often pronounced. I live near the Canadian border and I hear these types of pronunciations every day.
@MrBl0nd3 Well, the original word was "aluminum". It was later changed to "aluminium" to conform to other metal names like "titanium". Both versions are correct, though "aluminium" is the more commonly accepted form throughout the world. I do believe that we Americans use the wrong "meter/metre". A meter is a tool for measuring, a metre is a unit of measurement.
@ReNoEnVy957 No, he pronounced it right. He's Canadian and possibly from Montreal, since that is from where the show began. Seeing how pasta is mostly in seen in Italian restaurants and we have (obviously) more of a European culture than the Americans, then we pronounce it similarly to how the Italians do. If you wanna start pronouncing it like the Chinese, then you might get it better.... but in the meantime, it's PAsta.
Sounds like an English Montreal accent. Just imagine him saying "Mazda" in the same manner (which they do). In MD, my Grandmother and other family members used to call the Police the "POH-lice" and radiators "RAD-iators."
I do not understand why we have to keep saying this crap: the pasta was created independently, from time to Europe (Magna Grecia and then widespread by the Etruscans up to get to the Romans) and China. But do you really believe that Marco Polo brought noodles in Italy with a trip like that, and then it has spread throughout the world? It is a fairy tale for children. i know that for you it's quite difficult to translate from italian to english, but we have thousands of studies made by Universities ecc. that gave us a lot of information about pasta during roman empire for exemple, or archaeological finds in the centuris after christ which prove pasta was eaten in italy!
Marco Polo did not bring pasta to Italy. Italians already had a name for pasta. In fact, when Marco Polo describe the chinese counterpart, he calls it pasta. Pasta in its nearly modern form came from the Arabs a couple of hundred years before.
If you've seen this show on TV, it is a trend with all of the narrator/hosts to articulate words peculiarly, so the pronunciation may be specified by the producers. It's also a French-Canadian-produced show, which may have something to do with it.
Who made your historic reference about Pasta? Peter Sellers playing Fu Manchu? Do you know that before Savoy king conquested Naples in 1860, and then Venice in 1866, in Venice they never ever heard of spaghetti? Historic pasta of northen Italy is "tortellini", while almost all kind of long shaped pasta is from centre and south Italy. Until 1950 north people of italy still called people from south as "maccaroni". Then they started to eat pasta too and changed our nickname to "terroni"...
There's tons of evidence that pasta didn't first come to Italy from China. For example, Muslim travelers had brought couscous to Italy before Marco Polo was born, and early Roman historians write of lasagna served with leeks.
@clfcr The computer no, but the internet, absolutely. But there are a lot of misunderstanding with inventions. People often remember the wrong parts of inventions. Most people thing Henry Ford invented the car. He didn't invent the car or the assembly line, but he was the first to put those two things together. However he did invent the garage door. Lots of people could claim to have invented the Internet (not Al Gore), but Hedy Lamar has a legit claim to that one.
@dudevernameistaken Even though it is common to call it bowtie, this shape is called faralla, which is Italian for butterfly. FYI it's they're, not their.
@Quane14 Same here quane, he also says spagetti's and lasanas...which i didn't think needed an S to be plural. The overall presentation of this whole thing is kinda shoddy, but it's still interesting and worth watching.
@SuperFablefreak Alabama is 2nd, Mississippi is #1 for the last 6 years in a row. We're number One! Yay! :) Colorado is dead last. Those poor folks just don't have good BBQ.
Very interesting, I visited also a factory in Italy, and it is exactly the way they do it, sure the machinery are italian I believe, what changes sometimes the quality of it is the flour. thank you, and thank you also for the one from mozzarella.
Marco Polo was from Venice north east of Italy, instead the Italian pasta started in Sicily southern part of Italy, the South italian people brought it all over the country, there is no source that Marco Polo visited Sicily and brought noodles there . However I like both chinese noodles and Italian pasta.
christ sake guys leave him alone!. People say things differently alot. like the word "tour" some pronounce it "too-er" Thats like saying "yoo-er instead of "your " or "foo-er" instead of "four".
Bow-tie is right. But you have to consider the 'guy' doing the voice-over. I think this was a made for San Francisco presentation. Wonder if they make unicorns and rainbows too? Good grief!
Hey. Ignoramus's. That's Mark Tewksbury, Canadian Gold Medal swimmer. He pronounces 'Pasta' correctly, thank-you very much. It's you South North Americans who pronounce it incorrectly.... "Paw-sta" is, frankly, offensive.
Yep, and I had someone who called me a yankee just because I said eye-ther instead of ee-ther. .. and I was born in Florida? o.O Apparently I don't sound like I'm from my city O.o
@Marknopfler88 I just wanted to give that little cultural lesson. The whole story of pasta from China to Italy is pretty much a legend and for those who can't find a difference between Italian pasta and Chinese mian...well, they're no foodie. :) Cultures develop differently and pasta is no exception!
Soooo, the lasagne strips are first cut to 107 cm in length, and later they're cut in 4 parts 25 cm each. The metric system is a tacky one isn't it? :D
"p.s.Italians are far superior not only in term of pasta...our weakest point? Let me think because it is not easy to find one!" Come off it, tell me that's not arrogant... And you were saying how chinese pasta is disgusting? Well, I happen to think it tastes damn good, and a lot of people think like that too.
@longfootbuddy indeed i do because the people who write them (at least the AP texts) are absolutley brilliant, and all the information has either been proven or concluded from years of research and close observation and historical artifacts and references, and it all seems to make sense and add up so their conclusions on history must be pretty spot on. so i do believe whats written in the textbooks. do i always like it? no. but i nearly always believe what they say. theres nothing wrong with it
This guy needs to learn how to pronounce 'pasta' so it doesn't sound like PASSta! I mean really.....right?!:-P FYI--'m Italian, and I know my pasta, and LOVE IT!:-D
PAST-UH? Butterflies?
It's PAW-Stuh, and bow tie pastas. Duh! xD
Nia Parris XDD
Nah, it's PAST-UH in Canada :)
To my fellow Canadians: be patriotic and say pas-ta and zed! Don't give in to pah-sta and zee!
PAST AH. Nice pronunciation -_-
He is a gold medal-winning Olympic swimmer, he'll be able to swim out of anything you try to boil his anything in.
This is healthier than most instant noodles because it's air-dried. Unlike instant noodles which 80% are deep-fried.
Passtah? Wtf is this guy saying?
It's fairly clear that noodles existed in the late Roman Empire, will before Marco Polo's journey.
It's pronounced paw-stuh
no its not you don't say paw like a dogs paw you say PA-stuh. I am pronouncing it the same way it is said in Italian but in English which is the legitimate way of saying it.
Fresh pasta has its own appeal, but for me, there's nothing like hard pasta boiled soft with generous portions of salt right up to to the point of firm and dente.
China was making pasta from millet cereal grains around 4000 years ago. So for the sake of using the term "pasta"... China has the record on that. As far as European countries using it... the main difference is that they used Durum wheat and the middle east and south America has cous cous... which is essentially a durum wheat, ground barley and corn.
@Marknopfler88 Northern China used wheat to make noodles. Wheat and egg. Southern China made noodles out of rice because rice grows easily in the South while wheat grows predominantly in the North. Even in cuisine, a lot of the mantou and staples of Northern Chinese involve wheat. That is also what the Mongolians were introduced in the North and it is probably that Marco Polo did in fact had wheat-noodles and I would surprised if he also had rice noodles.
I love pasta🍝🍝🍝
Good lord, this is the best narrator they could find?
@andrewfyip that's true, but i only wanted to say that in Italy we had an independent development of pasta and spaghetti, not a follower of China tradition. The way of baking and cooking of chinese and italian pasta is very different, and pasta was eaten MUCH before Marco Polo returned in Venice. It's just a legend that Marco Polo brought back pasta from China; remember that pasta is more eaten in the South than in the North, where Venice is. But the real deep tradition of pasta is in the South
@charlesaferg How it's Made is a Canadian production, Canadians say pasta like that.
Japan is nicknamed the computerised nation, but they didn't invent computers. Italians have incredible cooking prowess, but they weren't the first to refine a grain into a pasta. Pasta itself can be made from any grain, it's just wheat happens to be the tastiest. But don't get me wrong, I think Italy is a far superior country in terms of pasta.
@DarkSunshineRain It's fafalla pasta. Farfalla is Italian for butterfly. How it's Made is a Canadian production, Canadians say pasta like that.
I like the american narration of this program. For the english version, it's always the same guy with the weird accent.
I'm Canadian and I say Pasta the exact same way this guy in the video does....
"So quickly popular did pasta become that by the fifteenth century, it occupied a prime position in Italian cooking."
No, it's pretty sound. It is a little more artistic or poetic, perhaps, than we're used to, but it's not "bad grammar".
He's pronouncing it "past-a" because he is Canadian and that is how it is often pronounced. I live near the Canadian border and I hear these types of pronunciations every day.
I'm pretty sure this was marketed towards the UK. That is a popular pronunciation there.
The top rated comment is correct. Language is changing.
@MrBl0nd3 Well, the original word was "aluminum". It was later changed to "aluminium" to conform to other metal names like "titanium". Both versions are correct, though "aluminium" is the more commonly accepted form throughout the world. I do believe that we Americans use the wrong "meter/metre". A meter is a tool for measuring, a metre is a unit of measurement.
I think everyone loves pasta, even Mario & Luigi loves any kind of pasta such as lot'sa spaghetti or Garfield loves lasagna.
yeah i am corean. Italia is beautiful....
Pasta has been around Europe for thousands of years, long before Marco Polo visited China.
@ReNoEnVy957
No, he pronounced it right. He's Canadian and possibly from Montreal, since that is from where the show began.
Seeing how pasta is mostly in seen in Italian restaurants and we have (obviously) more of a European culture than the Americans, then we pronounce it similarly to how the Italians do.
If you wanna start pronouncing it like the Chinese, then you might get it better.... but in the meantime, it's PAsta.
Sounds like an English Montreal accent. Just imagine him saying "Mazda" in the same manner (which they do).
In MD, my Grandmother and other family members used to call the Police the "POH-lice"
and radiators "RAD-iators."
waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!! i love pastaaaaaa!! ♥_♥
i want some Lasagna
yummmmmmmmmmyyyyyy
I do not understand why we have to keep saying this crap: the pasta was created independently, from time to Europe (Magna Grecia and then widespread by the Etruscans up to get to the Romans) and China. But do you really believe that Marco Polo brought noodles in Italy with a trip like that, and then it has spread throughout the world? It is a fairy tale for children. i know that for you it's quite difficult to translate from italian to english, but we have thousands of studies made by Universities ecc. that gave us a lot of information about pasta during roman empire for exemple, or archaeological finds in the centuris after christ which prove pasta was eaten in italy!
Marco Polo did not bring pasta to Italy. Italians already had a name for pasta. In fact, when Marco Polo describe the chinese counterpart, he calls it pasta. Pasta in its nearly modern form came from the Arabs a couple of hundred years before.
Pasta is slang term for "money" in Spain.
Who would have thought
If you've seen this show on TV, it is a trend with all of the narrator/hosts to articulate words peculiarly, so the pronunciation may be specified by the producers. It's also a French-Canadian-produced show, which may have something to do with it.
Pah-stuh. Its etymological origins give the a an exotic pronunciation.
Butterflies? I prefer bowties...or farfalle. -_- Pass-tah...this guy. man-o-man.
They did invent pasta, it's just that the chinese grain happens to be rice - Guess what, they used rice.
Chow-dere?! Chow-dere?! It's chowdah!!! Say it right!🤣
Pasta was made in Italy before Marco Polo was even born. Says so on Wiki.
@andrewfyip i really appreciated yout explanations, I respect Chinese people because they have a real, strong gastronomic culture, just like Italy.
It's a legend that Marco Polo brought back pasta from China
Who made your historic reference about Pasta? Peter Sellers playing Fu Manchu? Do you know that before Savoy king conquested Naples in 1860, and then Venice in 1866, in Venice they never ever heard of spaghetti? Historic pasta of northen Italy is "tortellini", while almost all kind of long shaped pasta is from centre and south Italy. Until 1950 north people of italy still called people from south as "maccaroni". Then they started to eat pasta too and changed our nickname to "terroni"...
There's tons of evidence that pasta didn't first come to Italy from China. For example, Muslim travelers had brought couscous to Italy before Marco Polo was born, and early Roman historians write of lasagna served with leeks.
I love pasta!!!
@clfcr The computer no, but the internet, absolutely. But there are a lot of misunderstanding with inventions. People often remember the wrong parts of inventions. Most people thing Henry Ford invented the car. He didn't invent the car or the assembly line, but he was the first to put those two things together. However he did invent the garage door. Lots of people could claim to have invented the Internet (not Al Gore), but Hedy Lamar has a legit claim to that one.
We pronounce it "past-a" over here as well. It just that "quickly popular" sounds a little odd to me.
pyastuh
fantastic! i love it
LOL everyone hates the narrator's voice in these. Both the guy and the drawl lady. XD
@dudevernameistaken Even though it is common to call it bowtie, this shape is called faralla, which is Italian for butterfly. FYI it's they're, not their.
@gymnast768
Well perhaps not the OLDEST civilization in the world but still you are right. Chinese history, inventions etc are rather mindblowing.
@Quane14 Same here quane, he also says spagetti's and lasanas...which i didn't think needed an S to be plural. The overall presentation of this whole thing is kinda shoddy, but it's still interesting and worth watching.
I love pasta!
@SuperFablefreak Alabama is 2nd, Mississippi is #1 for the last 6 years in a row. We're number One! Yay! :) Colorado is dead last. Those poor folks just don't have good BBQ.
Very interesting, I visited also a factory in Italy, and it is exactly the way they do it, sure the machinery are italian I believe, what changes sometimes the quality of it is the flour. thank you, and thank you also for the one from mozzarella.
P Ahhh St Uh... Anyone who ever watched PBS as a kid already knows how it's made.
PASTA!!! Il nostro piatto nazionale! Our national food!
Definitely Canadian:
PASS-TAH 😄
Interesting vid...Thanks!!!
its most likely for restaurants that need pasta in huge quantities.... i dunno
I loooooove pasta
OH MY GOD! PASTA RAIN! :D
why because he is handsome, cute and clever?
i love pasta!
butterflies are my favourite
Looks like a character from twilight! LOL
Marco Polo was from Venice north east of Italy, instead the Italian pasta started in Sicily southern part of Italy, the South italian people brought it all over the country, there is no source that Marco Polo visited Sicily and brought noodles there . However I like both chinese noodles and Italian pasta.
Puh-Ha-Us-Tt-Aaahhhhhhahahahahahahaaha
"Then the spaghettis go gently down the chute." *Shoots down in random bursts*
christ sake guys leave him alone!. People say things differently alot. like the word "tour" some pronounce it "too-er"
Thats like saying "yoo-er instead of "your " or "foo-er" instead of "four".
This guy does a pretty good Napoleon Dynamite impression
this is madness!
madness? this is pastaaaaaaaa
Venetziano from hetalia would love this video!
If I had a food to eat forever I would be pasta
lol who makes those machines?? lol they do everything to the littlest things
make one that will do my homework...LOL
Pasta does not originate from Marco Polo's China travels. It was first referenced in Sicily in 1154, and not in 1295 by Marco Polo.
Hmmmmm very interesting in a good way though ; )
I thought the were called bow-ties not butterflies?
Another reason why I hate this host and would rather have the man with the deep voice lol.
Anessa64222 What man with the deep voice?
Bow-tie is right. But you have to consider the 'guy' doing the voice-over. I think this was a made for San Francisco presentation. Wonder if they make unicorns and rainbows too? Good grief!
Farfalle means butterflies. It is called that because it looks like a butterfly. Depending on the person, it can look like bow ties.
the bows are cute!
I'm itailian so I love pasta
Omg i can't stop thinking about Hetalia while watching this xD
It's how british people say pasta
Hey. Ignoramus's. That's Mark Tewksbury, Canadian Gold Medal swimmer. He pronounces 'Pasta' correctly, thank-you very much. It's you South North Americans who pronounce it incorrectly.... "Paw-sta" is, frankly, offensive.
VIGOROUSLY mixed
yeah, weird isnt it!
Its not until you really think about it, that you notice alot of people do it
"Why would people who eat with sticks invent something you need a fork to eat."
-Tony Soprano
Yep, and I had someone who called me a yankee just because I said eye-ther instead of ee-ther. .. and I was born in Florida? o.O Apparently I don't sound like I'm from my city O.o
yeah same here
i've never seen a 4 kg bag of it :S
only in america...
I went here, expecting I'd see Hetalia related comments or atleast someone who would comment 'PAAAAASTAAAA!'
I was not disappointed.
marco polo, chinese pasta, only tales...eastern "pasta" it's made of soia or rice...and processing methods are completely different
*_Pastuh_*
@Marknopfler88 I just wanted to give that little cultural lesson. The whole story of pasta from China to Italy is pretty much a legend and for those who can't find a difference between Italian pasta and Chinese mian...well, they're no foodie. :) Cultures develop differently and pasta is no exception!
....I'm watching this while eating pasta...
butterflies, we call those bowties here. :D
Soooo, the lasagne strips are first cut to 107 cm in length, and later they're cut in 4 parts 25 cm each. The metric system is a tacky one isn't it? :D
"p.s.Italians are far superior not only in term of pasta...our weakest point? Let me think because it is not easy to find one!"
Come off it, tell me that's not arrogant...
And you were saying how chinese pasta is disgusting? Well, I happen to think it tastes damn good, and a lot of people think like that too.
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i love to eating pasta as noodles
@longfootbuddy indeed i do because the people who write them (at least the AP texts) are absolutley brilliant, and all the information has either been proven or concluded from years of research and close observation and historical artifacts and references, and it all seems to make sense and add up so their conclusions on history must be pretty spot on. so i do believe whats written in the textbooks. do i always like it? no. but i nearly always believe what they say. theres nothing wrong with it
If I had a food to eat forever It would have to be pasta food
@MsFormula1Fan *Mother, did you know that pasta was invented in china long time ago, happens that...*
Your mother: oh not again ¬¬
This guy needs to learn how to pronounce 'pasta' so it doesn't sound like PASSta! I mean really.....right?!:-P FYI--'m Italian, and I know my pasta, and LOVE IT!:-D