Fair enough, an Italian would rather die than slurp their spaghetti. According to everyone's nonna, the only noise you should make while eating your pasta is "mmm".
No dangling strands either. You need to twirl your fettucine around your fork until it's a neat little ball and pop it cleanly in your mouth.
But honestly, where's the fun in that?
We're here for dangling, slurpy strands that leave shadows of sauce all over your face. Where dinner is accompanied by a cacophony of guzzling and sucking and lapping as strands of pasta get tossed down in a gulp. Giant piles of tagliatelle dripping from mouths and wild bucatini dangling all over the table.
Haha, sounds equal parts disgusting and like a plan, right? If you've ever seen a kid tackle a bowl of spaghetti, you'll know why we're calling it a plan. This is eating with your whole face and soul.
You know what to do. Find your biggest pot and boil up some long pasta trouble this instant.
This dish is bound to get everywhere as long as you're as careless as possible. It really depends on how much of the added brandy you guzzle while you cook...
When a pasta dish calls itself 'creamy', you know you're soon to be in slurping heaven.
This dish is basically impossible to eat neatly. The linguine will travel, the meatballs will roll and you, lucky you, will be in pasta heaven.
Big, fat strands of pappardelle soak up all that slow-cooked osso bucco flavour. This version ditches the carrot and tomato to make a 'white' dish... which is probably just as well for your tablecloth.
We challenge anyone to eat bucatini and not slurp very loudly. Frankly, the 'spaghetti with the hole' demands it.
Thick strands envelop olive and lamb with plenty of EVOO in this springtime stunner. There's plenty to love about this dish.
Sound the alarm, we need arresting by the tidy police. Slurp? You'll near shout this puttanesca spaghetti down.
A quick dish with big flavour. Traditional carbonara is all about the bacon, eggs and parmesan, no cream required. The finished result makes for the kind of quiet eating the Italians appear to welcome.
This recipe suggest adding a slug of cream towards the end of cooking and we highly recommend you do. The greater the cream, the greater the slurp.
Slather strands of angel hair pasta in melted garlic butter and you're basically asking for a food fight.
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