The Fettuccine Spaghetti rivalry

In food there are relationships such as that between salt and pepper, pork and apple sauce however with this comes the flipside; rivalries.

The rivalry discussed in this piece is that of the fettuccine and spaghetti rivalry.

I was always a spaghetti kid, unbeknownst to myself there is a whole world of pasta out there, waiting in a bowl just for you, and you, and even you.

I moved to university which meant to do my own shopping so standing in the aisle of my Italian dreams, it was enough to salivate, to confuse and above all get me thinking about what was the most popular type of pasta.

Surely it would have to be spaghetti; I mean it is everywhere, in tins, in packets and in frozen meals. It’s the Justin Bieber of pastas; overexposed.

However fettuccine, which is the wider alternative, has to be catching up in popularity to that of its rival spaghetti. To be honest with you all, fettuccine is a far more enjoyable pasta in my opinion, more filling but importantly it appreciates the sauce more, soaking it into the pasta, whereas spaghetti falls flat because it is so thin it actually can’t soak the sauce and leaves you with a flood of sauce at the bottom of the plate; heck you’d be forgiven for thinking you’d came back from the tomato throwing festival in Spain.

All in all, fettuccine is the better of the two, for like salt and pepper, has better relations between it and the sauce you put on it whether it be tomato or a creamy mushroom.