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.
"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.
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.
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.
@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
@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.
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.
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!
@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.
@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!
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.
@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.
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.
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"...
@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.
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!
@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.
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.
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
@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.
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.
PAST-UH? Butterflies?
It's PAW-Stuh, and bow tie pastas. Duh! xD
Nia Parris XDD
Nah, it's PAST-UH in Canada :)
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.
To my fellow Canadians: be patriotic and say pas-ta and zed! Don't give in to pah-sta and zee!
Chow-dere?! Chow-dere?! It's chowdah!!! Say it right!🤣
Good lord, this is the best narrator they could find?
Passtah? Wtf is this guy saying?
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.
It's fairly clear that noodles existed in the late Roman Empire, will before Marco Polo's journey.
This is healthier than most instant noodles because it's air-dried. Unlike instant noodles which 80% are deep-fried.
"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.
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.
*_Pastuh_*
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.
yeah i am corean. Italia is beautiful....
I'm Canadian and I say Pasta the exact same way this guy in the video does....
@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
This guy does a pretty good Napoleon Dynamite impression
I love pasta🍝🍝🍝
I think everyone loves pasta, even Mario & Luigi loves any kind of pasta such as lot'sa spaghetti or Garfield loves lasagna.
@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.
i love pasta!
Looks like a character from twilight! LOL
what is semeleeni?flour?
I like the american narration of this program. For the english version, it's always the same guy with the weird accent.
"Then the spaghettis go gently down the chute." *Shoots down in random bursts*
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.
@charlesaferg How it's Made is a Canadian production, Canadians say pasta like that.
Definitely Canadian:
PASS-TAH 😄
waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!! i love pastaaaaaa!! ♥_♥
i want some Lasagna
LOL everyone hates the narrator's voice in these. Both the guy and the drawl lady. XD
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."
PASTA!!! Il nostro piatto nazionale! Our national food!
fantastic! i love it
PASTAAAAA!!!
Pasta was made in Italy before Marco Polo was even born. Says so on Wiki.
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.
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!
@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.
Butterflies? I prefer bowties...or farfalle. -_- Pass-tah...this guy. man-o-man.
@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!
Omg i can't stop thinking about Hetalia while watching this xD
I'm suddenly in the mood for some spaghetti and lasagna.
@andrewfyip i really appreciated yout explanations, I respect Chinese people because they have a real, strong gastronomic culture, just like Italy.
@DarkSunshineRain It's fafalla pasta. Farfalla is Italian for butterfly. How it's Made is a Canadian production, Canadians say pasta like that.
I love pasta!
OH MY GOD! PASTA RAIN! :D
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.
It's a legend that Marco Polo brought back pasta from China
@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.
Interesting vid...Thanks!!!
butterflies, we call those bowties here. :D
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.
Venetziano from hetalia would love this video!
the bows are cute!
Hetalia = Italy = Pasta = This. I SEE.
I'm itailian so I love pasta
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"...
Pah-stuh. Its etymological origins give the a an exotic pronunciation.
Pasta is slang term for "money" in Spain.
Who would have thought
this is madness!
madness? this is pastaaaaaaaa
@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.
why because he is handsome, cute and clever?
It's how british people say pasta
....I'm watching this while eating pasta...
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.
I loooooove pasta
If I had a food to eat forever I would be pasta
Man, I'm hungry now.
@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.
Pasta has been around Europe for thousands of years, long before Marco Polo visited China.
I love how he says pasta
"Why would people who eat with sticks invent something you need a fork to eat."
-Tony Soprano
no1horselover: It's like my friend. Instead of water, she says wooder. xD
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.
Yay! Venice! ITALY !"Past-a"? oh come on!
Hmmmmm very interesting in a good way though ; )
rotinis are my favorite type of pasta!
We pronounce it "past-a" over here as well. It just that "quickly popular" sounds a little odd to me.
PASTAAAAA~!
pasta *drools* :D
"pass-tah"
No..NO...NONONONONONONNONONONONONONONONONONONOONOOOOOOO!!
this guys fuckign with us, he said past-a like a million times.
what country is this from. because the us episode version had a different narrator that didnt say pasta funny.
that is so cool..=]
I always thought that I was the only one that who thought that the host was gay. Butterflies? Come on !
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
PASTA. PAH-STUH
NOT PASS-TUH.
GOD.
@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.
eh americans invented the car, the plane, computers and the internet.
I love pasta SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Much!
P Ahhh St Uh... Anyone who ever watched PBS as a kid already knows how it's made.
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.
WHERE IS ITALY NOW TO TELL HIM HOW THE RIGHT WAY TO SAY PASTA?!
Doitsu~! :3
@gymnast768
Well perhaps not the OLDEST civilization in the world but still you are right. Chinese history, inventions etc are rather mindblowing.
its most likely for restaurants that need pasta in huge quantities.... i dunno
I can't even finish watching this! WTF is PASS-TA?!
I went here, expecting I'd see Hetalia related comments or atleast someone who would comment 'PAAAAASTAAAA!'
I was not disappointed.
Im addicted to pasta and when i say that i mean that :D
If I had a food to eat forever It would have to be pasta food