Talk:Linguine

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Does linguine have different ingredients, then say perciatelli? (unsigned comment)

No, all dry pasta consists of wheat + water. Some kinds also have eggs and perhaps vegetables (spinach etc.) mostly for color. --Macrakis 19:08, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Popular culture section

took was stated to have "his legs look like linguini."' This doesn't make any sense to me. What is a beatdown? What does it mean to take a beatdown? How can a beatdown be stated to have his legs look like something? Could someone render this into intelligible standard English? --Macrakis 19:08, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Unit of length

The linguine has been suggested as a standard of length [1] --jmb 00:46, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Length

The standard unit of length shall be the EU standard (Florentine) linguine (unboiled at sea level), defined as 1lg, representing 14cm, 0.02784 perches, 0.462 Japanese shyaku or 0.0007568 Ancient Greek stadium ptolemeys

For greater than 1lg, the following should be used:

* Double-decker bus = 65.85lg

* Brontosaurus = 15 double-decker buses laid bumper-to-bumper

* Length across known universe at shortest point = 136 trillion brontosauruses laid nose-to-tail

[edit] Wrong Spelling

I've tried to correct the spelling of this word but someone has accused me of vandalism. the LINGUINI spelling is wrong it isn't an anglicanization. Is simply a wrong spelling of a foreign word the only correct spelling of linguine is lyn-guh-iì-neh. Is just like a someone read in MERCEDES (the car brand) CED like "said" instead of "zed" as it should be read. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.25.195.188 (talk) 17:40, 25 October 2007 (UTC)