Antipasto
Hi Jenn, here you go:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipasto
And to be a little more specific:
Pasta is a generic term for foods made from an unleavened dough of flour and water, and sometimes a combination of egg and flour.
Pasto (plural pasti) is italian for "Meal".
"Antipasto" means "Not a real meal", a "teaser", a "taster".
Sam: It's 106 miles to the Crack of Doom, we've got a magic ring, two daggers, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses.
Frodo: Hit it!
What happens when pasta and antipasta meet?
Dark matter.
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You're funny--I love the idea of an anti-meal. I especially like the way you set up the joke with the real meanings of "pasta" and "pasto."Originally Posted by Llewellian
For those you didn't know, the "anti-" in antipasto is like "ante" in Latin, and means before. You know, like a.m. meaning morning is short for ante meridiem, "before noon."
The OP was just playing with us, wasn't s/he? Even if one didn't already know that, the definition is right in the first sentence of the wiki article linked to.
Well, according to my italian sources and the italian-english translator, the meaning of "Antipasti" is really "Not a real meal". Not "before" like in "Ante" but "Not-x" like in Anti.
The meaning is that it is not really a meal, not really something to fill your hunger. Its just something you eat for taste. And especially, Antipasti are served alone too, like when you just have wine and take some olives or small slices of bread, cheese and else with it.
But over time, it was used as "Pre-Dish", something to go with while you wait for the real meal. Teaser or Appetizer.
From that point... the warm prezels you get here before the main dish comes is the bavarian "Antipasto" ;o).
Sam: It's 106 miles to the Crack of Doom, we've got a magic ring, two daggers, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses.
Frodo: Hit it!
Okay, Italian here (also, hello, this is my first post). "Antipasto" *is* etymologically made of "anti-" as in "before", and "pasto"=meal. The fact that an "antipasto", or an hors d'oeuvre, or an appetizer, isn't meant to amount to a full meal, and therefore technically means that it's not a real meal, cannot negate that the meaning of the word is just that it comes before a meal.
Besides, depending where you go in Italy, the antipasto can be so, er, abundant, as to fill you up by itself.
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so what happens when you serve pasta and antipasta at the same time?
does the plate explode and create a new universe of flavor?
set a man a fire and he stays warm for a night
set a man on fire and he stays warm for the rest of his life.
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I am the patron of the whores and trees.
We'll make love.
In the room above.
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