Martin wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:59:37 +0100, d4g4h4@yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, _the_
> chancellor (*)) wrote:
>
> >Mike..... wrote:
> >
> >> Following up to Alfred Molon
> >>
> >> >> Not everything in Wikipedia is true.
> >> >
> >> > Wikipedia has the same level of accuracy as the encyclopedia Britannica.
> >> > There was a test about this some time ago.
> >>
> >> "noodle" comes from German, pasta comes from italian, kiwis call pasta
> >> macaroni, older americans call pasta noodles sometimes, brits used to call
> >> pasta "spaghetti", maybe all americans stil call pasta nodles, I dont know,
> >> I never heard anybody english call pasta noodles.
> >> On the cookery front they are close but not the same.
> >
> >Note my comments on this test- it wasn't peer reviewed. Molon obviously
> >believes anything he is told.
>
> Except by us unfortunately.
They put pictures of pasta noodles taken through a window on Malaysian
ID cards, or so I read on wiki.
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