The article also mentions trade groups pressuring the FDA to set arbitrary standards on pasta to keep out imports of Asian noodles.
The article fails to mention what the FDA calls Asian noodle products.
It calls them "alimentary paste."
That must be the lamest way of defining pasta I've ever heard. Whoever named it like that doesn't deserve italian pasta (/s)
That's how foreign languages work. In Polish "rower" means "a bicycle" because british company Rover sold them here first :) In Russian and Ukrainian vogzal means "train station" because there was a famous train station in Vauxhal :)
You can't be serious. Post proof.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vauxhall#In_the_Russian_langua...
Wait really?! I'm learning Polish and I was wondering about this.
Although, given the way things are going, it wouldn't surprise me if the word was now "шарпи."
Surprisingly, the art supply brand Caran d'Ache is from the Russian "карандаш" and not vice versa.
The Ukrainian for "pencil" simply comes from the word for the metal tin, which, like lead metal, was in use for styluses used in drawing before the discovery of graphite.
And pencil is "ołówek" (ołów = lead).
Citation?
The article doesn't mention "alimentary paste" anywhere, so your remark comes off as assertive, yet I couldn't find traceability to this term in what I believe to be the applicable federal statute[1].
[1] https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?node=pt21.2.139&rgn=di...
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/alimentary
"Of, or relating to food, nutrition or digestion."
"Nourishing; nutritious."
(At least the first part; "extruded alimentary paste" would be a more precise description of noodles.)
The point is that calling any food product "alimentary paste" is hilariously unappetizing.
> make six or eight ounces of paste as No. 319, roll it to the thickness of a quarter of an inch, or a little more, put pudding-cloth in a basin, sprinkle some flour over it, lay in your paste, and then the meat, together with a few pieces of fat; when full put in three wineglasses of water; turn the paste over the meat, so as not to form a lump, but well closed; then tie the cloth
And who could resist paste pudding [2]?
http://www.letterology.com/2012/06/please-dont-eat-library-p...
Another classmate ate earthworms. I was so enraged by this that I tried to bite his ear off. Fortunately I did not succeed.
The French aliment simply means food, although it's not spoken very often in France. The word exists in English but it's quite rare and normally used in legal contexts like so many other words of French origin.
It must be made from wheat, but can be with or without eggs, and with or without dairy product. But it must be formed/extruded and dried.
TIL