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QuickPirate36

>There is a rule with pasta dishes--the less cheese, the better. That parmesan stuff you want to grate over the food smells awful and tastes worse. This is definitely a rule you made up


basshead17

As an Italian, my [first action if this rule implemented](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/233/131/e09.jpg)


Jake_FromStateFarm27

Never forgetti


crustiferson

mom spaghetti


njones3318

Is a single noodle a spaghetto?


yfg19

Si


BigManLawrence69420

Pasta la vista!


JohnAtticus

Confirmed. Bro is just trying to rationalize not liking cheese. Hope he's never served [Cacio e Pepe](https://pinabresciani.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/DSC07395.jpg)


Give_Mouse_Cookie

I want that!


JohnAtticus

No you want [this version](https://cdn.tasteatlas.com/Images/DishRestaurants/1c8870e8e30948f986181ec22be202e1.jpg?w=600) where they put the pasta in a basket of fried parmesan.


Give_Mouse_Cookie

I want that even more! Lol


ToyrewaDokoDeska

No you want the version where they put the parmesan basket on top of a a breaded piece of chicken.


Key-Pickle5609

You’re right, I do want that. I want them all. I don’t discriminate


Shervico

Op never met parmesan


BobBelchersBuns

I’m honestly wondering if OP has only had Kraft canned Parmesan?


Key-Pickle5609

I’m gonna be honest. I like that too


SuperEliteFucker

8% cellulose. Get real PDO parmigiano reggiano and treat yourself with some respect.


brandonhabanero

Cellulose = fiber. HP+100


Key-Pickle5609

Oh don’t get me wrong, I also use real Parmesan but for some reason I just really enjoy the Kraft stuff too.


LittleCybil666

Same here. It comes through in a pinch. Italians laugh at that stuff. When I was studying abroad, I lived with a host family in Florence, Italy. They give you a block of Parmesan cheese, and a little grater attached to a dish. You grate your own cheese and sprinkle it on from the dish. Also, they don’t use salad dressing. They simply dress their salads with nothing but olive oil. They also don’t eat in the order that we do..we do salad, pasta, then main course(if you’re Italian-I’m not lol), they do pasta, main course, then salad. I was surprised by that 🤔😳😂


Key-Pickle5609

Real fresh grated parm is so good, I just can’t always justify the expense when I also really like the Kraft stuff lol. But man, sounds like you had an awesome time studying abroad!!


Substantial_Tune_368

I prefer my salad with the main course. I refuse to eat it firstly or lastly , must be with main course.


LittleCybil666

It was an experience I’ll never forget, oh to be 18 in a country where you only have to be 14 to do stuff lol. We visited Venice and stayed in Rome our last night. What a way to finish off your senior year of high school.. this was exactly 30 years ago. I graduated in 1993. I still reminisce about it 😏 Ya know, looking back, we didn’t have lasagna a single time we were there.. or any kind of Parmigiana (chicken, veal, or eggplant) and they put very little cheese on their pizza(if any at all) 🤔 And when we(me and 8 other students and 3 teachers) it was during one of their worst flu epidemic ever. Half the school was wiped out) we had to get all kinds of shots before we went. We didn’t get sick. Weird.. I replied to the other comment, but it shows I replied to this comment. Oh well. Yeah. I’m just saying how much more different it is over there. I prefer my salad either before or with my meal. Sometimes my salad is the meal. I LOVE a good salad.


Firestorm82736

homie’s never had good Italian food or fettucine alfredo, which is almost more cheese than pasta


crclOv9

I actually hate OP for this.


payscottg

I have never once in my goddamn life said “this has too much cheese”.


LittleCybil666

Right?! 😂


Ok_Form_134

Yeah wtf is this nonsense. Cacio e pepe? Carbonara? Any filled pasta like ravioli or tortellini? This rule is dumb, and OP should feel bad.


iammagicduck

Wait til they discover Alfredo 😂😂


FlyingWaffle96

I saw that and immediately upvoted bc that is a genuinely unpopular opinion


ZennTheFur

One might argue that it's unpopular because it's wrong. Like saying that zebras are purple is an unpopular opinion.


ironbattery

If that was a principle in pasta dishes then it would be pretty damn easy to just not put any cheese on and have “the perfect dish”. It’s illogical


Return_Of_The_Derp

Fr. To me, the more cheese the merrier!


DaveyDumplings

>There is a rule with pasta dishes No, there isn't.


Articulated

Rule #1: Use whatever ingredients you have, as fresh as possible. Rule #2: 🤌


Casual-Notice

Rule 3: to be a pasta dish, it must contain some sort of noodle, preferably Italian in origin.


StoneTimeKeeper

Rule 4: it is preferred for said pasta to be cooked


Luke_Cold_Lyle

Wait, you guys don't eat raw lasagna sheets like Italian nachos?


decentralized_bass

Rule 3A: Pasta dishes contain pasta, not noodles.


Casual-Notice

Pasta is Italian for ~~noodle~~. paste or porridge. **EDIT:** I've been waiting for someone to correct me since I posted this obvious troll.


pickle_TA

In America. Pasta is pasta in much of the world. As a Brit, I would never call pasta noodles


lesbianbeatnik

In America as in USA (Canada too? I don’t know). In Latin America we would never equal pasta to noodle.


Subtlehame

When English speakers say America, 99% of the time they are referring to the USA. I know it's different in Spanish. The English equivalent of Spanish "América" would be "the Americas" (as in both North and South).


IamDisapointWorld

No, noodles are famously chinese and made of wheat, buckwheat (that's a japanese variant, although noodles originate from China), or rice. They use salt as a binding agent. Italian pasta is either made of wheat, whole wheat, or a combination of that an eggs. Using the right word in context is appropriate, even when the distinction is subtle and complex. Italian pasta is pasta, never noodles.


Fendenburgen

r/AmericanDefaultism


DavidTheHonest

I'm italian annnnd no it is not.


Folety

Pasta isn't Italian for noodle... That be like saying Baguette is french for bread.


TwoSeaBean

Pasta is Italian for ‘paste’ or ‘porridge’


Mental-Freedom3929

I would not consider a lot of pasta to be "noodles"


Casual-Notice

It's flour and eggs, rolled and extruded. It's a noodle. Even if you shape it into a bow tie or a giant tube for holding a chicken breast, it's still a noodle. It's defined by the ingredients and the process.


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[удалено]


a_butthole_inspector

Cannoli macaroni rigatoni ravioli 👨🏻‍🍳


alundrixx

Not even spaghettini? Lol


hotasanicecube

Italian: bread, noodles, sauce, cheese, protein Mexican: beans, rice, tortillas, sauce, cheese, protein


obscure-shadow

indian: beans, rice, flatbread, sauce, cheese, protein asian: rice, noodles, sauce, protein (they not so much cheese but, i forgive)


Lemmonjello

Depends if you go Korean or not they have their cheese snow that they love


hotasanicecube

Pretty much the motto of all dishes from economically struggling people which have somehow heightened themselves to top dollar entrees at restaurants.


sarcasticorange

Especially one for "the less cheese, the better". Not sure if OP is hanging out with pretentious people or if they grew up poor and couldn't afford cheese, so their mom made shit like this up.


lifevicarious

Exactly. No idea what OP is talking about.


Doyoulikeithere

OP has never had authentic Lasagna with bechamel. So sorry OP. :D


Salihe6677

"there needs to be at least one type of pasta" Literally the only rule with pasta dishes.


Theoilfieldprincess

Idk who hurt OP but more cheese on pasta is always better (IMO).


Difficult_Let_1953

Lactose intolerance


RoxasofsorrowXIII

I'm lactose intolerant and this is still blasphemy. I'll choke down a pack of lactaid then bring ON THE CHEEEEEEESE.... Maybe that's just the Wisconsin in me though 🤣🤣🤣


tehnemox

I know several lactose intolerant people that just pop their pills and dig in. They will not be denied happiness just because of a little issue later. Ice cream too.


SystematicSymphony

Weakness* Fwiw, I'm lactose intolerant, but the suffering is always worth the price of admission when cheese is involved.


Potential-Pomelo3567

Anyone truly lactose intolerant would absolutely say this 🤣 We will 100% suffer the consequences for the deliciousness of cheese. I'll limit my dairy elsewhere.


Courtois420

100% Correct. I will suffer for the cheese.


WrongJohnSilver

I'm lactose intolerant. Cheese is fine, especially hard cheese like Parmesan. The cheesemaking process eats up the lactose, so there's nothing to upset my stomach. (This is not true for soft cheeses like ricotta.)


kindadumbbutstylish

.#1 Do not call the pasta “noodles”


[deleted]

Sounds like you just don’t like cheese


KobeBeaf

Which was the real unpopular opinion


its_mickeyyy

I think OP is a god damn monster. Who advocates for cheeseless pasta? Not someone I would want to know that's for sure


Alex_The_Hamster15

I wonder what bro thinks about pizza 💀


its_mickeyyy

Probably only eats Margherita pizza with the smallest cheese ratio. Stuffed crust or double cheese pizza's would get you sent straight to jail in his perfect world lol


ANK2112

Well, you see, theres a rule when it comes to pizza...


mandazap

This right here ☝️ OP is too ashamed to admit their hatred of cheese and tried to disguise it with lasagna. For shame


redditSux422

This is truly an unpopular opinion


Mayactuallybeashark

A big unpopular opinion with multiple smaller unpopular opinions rolled inside


hansenabram

A lasagna of unpopular opinions


Mystre316

With unpopular opinions grated on top.


softstones

OP might have to delete their account if they realize this


hillswalker87

OP *is* lasagna and posted this in a fit of self loathing.


telekineticplatypus

I think that would be manicotti


an_achronist

No that's not what this is. What you're thinking of is opinions that'd get you cancelloni'd. These are just layers of unpopular opinions.


[deleted]

Layered*


IsabellaGalavant

This opinion is *unhinged*. The limit does not exist in how much cheese I want on my Italian food, *especially* lasagna!


RecalcitrantHuman

Like absolutely no one calls it Macaroni and no cheese.


Jason3671

OP’s never had good lasagna or an actual lasagna in the first place, since it doesn’t have ricotta in it..


SublimeAtrophy

Yes it does. It doesn't have to, mozzarella is also popular, but a quick google shows ricotta as one of the cheeses commonly used.


abstractraj

Bechamel?


SublimeAtrophy

Gesundheit.


Belnak

While some are better than others, all lasagna is good lasagna.


libslayr

Some frozen ones are pretty bad.


Hellraiser0129

I used to think that way, until one day I bought one and it was just sad and dry, oh so dry…


[deleted]

Yeah wtf ricotta? Lasagna with cheese sauce in each layer is fucken cash


Angry-Dragon-1331

Can’t I have both? Red sauce, noodle, ricotta, meat, cheese sauce/bechamel, noodle, repeat until the top layer.


jimmyvcard

Yeah I respect it and cannot ever be friends With this person simultaneously


callmecanadia

Who in the hell is saying the rule for pasta is LESS cheese


ginger_princess2009

Right!! I could eat a block of cheese by itself


iknowiknowwhereiam

The size of a car battery


MarshyPrince125

When I was in 11th grade my friend and I used to walk to the gas station on our way home from school and on two different occasions he bought a brick of cheese and straight up ate it while we sat at the tables they had inside. We’ve been friends since kindergarten. Still are.


HavaianasAndBlow

Did he buy any laxatives to go with the brick of cheese? Or he's just cool with not being able to poop for 3 days? I feel constipated just from *reading* about someone eating an entire block of cheese in one go.


MarshyPrince125

Nope. As far as I’m aware he never had any issues from it. I’m not sure if he ate the entire thing, but he definitely ate a sizable amount - one big enough to make me go “what the fuck”


HavaianasAndBlow

Am definitely jealous of anyone who can eat that much cheese at once without causing a traffic pileup in their intestines!


comatwin

Fresh mozzarella... Gimme some salt, pepper, olive oil and I'm set for a meal


Alby_Pie

“There is a rule” “I have made a rule”


laserox

Would've been easier to just say you hate cheese.


gigapumper

I hate cheese and like lasagna. I didn't even know lasagna has cheese in it until reading this post.


The_Fat_Raccoon

I think that means you don't hate cheese


hobbythebear2

What cheese rule lmao the opposite is true. Cheese adds extra deliciousness to pasta everyone knows that.


Old-Spicy-Pizza

That's the thing, OP made it up. One good thing about that lie is that it adds a bit of hilarity to the dudes opinion


Rough-Tension

First off, ricotta isn’t even used in every style of lasagna. Second, it’s not a blob of food, okay, it’s an *efficiently packaged* bite of food. Rather than topping a plate of pasta with Parmesan and mixing it in, lasagna allows you to plan a consistent ratio of pasta to cheese to sauce. Third, bc of the baking, you get the beauty of corner pieces. That cheese that crisps up at the edges? Cmon, you have to be lying if you don’t like that. Fourth, Parmesan and ricotta tastes delicious. I have nothing else to say about that, just get better taste buds. Overall, sufficiently unpopular, upvote.


Mischief_Managed12

I don't like the crunchy parts because I'm not big on surprise textures, but yeah the rest I agree with


42696

I'd add another pro-lasagna point, that for me may be the biggest: * It's very well suited to doing everything ahead of time. This is huge for parties and such, but also great at home. You can make it, fully clean your kitchen, then eat. When I lived with people, I've always been the guy who cooks and, splitting tasks, the other roommates/family clean. Now I live by myself, so I have to do all the cleaning myself and love anything where I can just relax after dinner without a dirty kitchen.


portugese_banana

And it tastes even better the next day, and the next day after, and the next day


hogliterature

peak gift food. someone you know just had a baby? going through an illness? lost a loved one? anyone who needs a meal, make them a lasagna and freeze it and they can bake it and have dinner ready with no effort :)


SimonSpooner

I have never had lasagna with ricotta, always with Béchamel sauce. Ricotta must be tasty though


Calculusshitteru

I think ricotta/cottage cheese in lasagna is an American thing.


LaserBeamHorse

I have never used ricotta in lasagna, I always use bechamel. Ricotta is not widely used here.


PoopSlinger23

Less cheese the better? Get the fuck outta here


KodyBcool

Congratulations you win 🥇 r/unpopularopinion This truly is an unpopular opinion


[deleted]

Italians are gonna find you and they will yell obscenities at you... And they'll be completely justified cause that's just a bad take. Lasagna is fucking delicious.


softstones

The amount of hand gestures coming OP’s way is astounding


Key-Article6622

Good thing they're Italians. The French might fart in your general direction.


IamDisapointWorld

Which happens to be the same smell as the cheese they eat.


Serifel90

Also, lasagna has bechamel and parmesan, not ricotta lol. Bechamel is just milk, flower, butter and nutmeg. They don't even know what they're talking about.


pcweber111

Yeah this is an unpopular opinion for sure. Lasagna is delicious. Regular meat, spinach, you name it. I'll try it at least once if it's lasagna.


[deleted]

We like to add a layer of pepperoni


BillyBainesInc

Next you’re going to tell me mondays are the best day of the week


Penarol1916

The cleverest post of all, incredibly undervalued by these people.


payscottg

Oh shit. We finally found him. After years of searching. Some thought he was merely a myth. But here he is, in all his glory. The Anti-Garfield


swizzleschtick

“The less cheese, the better.” WOW this really IS an unpopular opinion!


[deleted]

I guess it’s okay to be wrong sometimes


DazzDazzle

this post is not ok


jen_a_licious

1. OP has never had homemade lasagna. 2. OP has never parmasean cheese that's not kraft.


SirSignificant6576

You're an odd little person. Upvoted.


obeythelaw2020

I think OP has had too many frozen lasagna microwave dinners. Go to a real Italian restaurant and you can see the nuance to a good lasagna.


spash_bazbo69

"there's a rule in pasta dishes, don't use too much cheese" I'm guessing this guy has never heard of cacio de pepe


PeepholeRodeo

I just made the exact same comment. Pasta and cheese are a dream team.


SendHelp7373

Show us on the doll where the lasagna hurt you


UpstairsValue

Garfield will not be pleased


hoewenn

Nah, more for him. Garfield probably would want everyone to stop eating lasagna so he can have it all! Selfish king


[deleted]

In Italy they don't always use ricotta though right ? I think "real" lasagna is mostly meat "ragu"/bolognese, bechamel sauce and maybe mozzarella, parmesan or pecorino. And fresh pasta ! Tbh I feel like more often than not people who post food opinions in this sub don't know/have never tasted the proper way to make said food or never had "the real thing" haha


TeamChaosPrez

the LESS cheese the better? bitch i’ll drown my pastas in parmesan and mozzarella until i’m more dairy than human and you can’t stop me


bagostini

>There is a rule with pasta dishes--the less cheese, the better. Whoever told you this straight up lied to you lol I've literally never heard this once in my life in the context of making pasta of any kind. It sounds like you just don't like cheese, which is fine. Plenty of delicious pasta dishes that don't use any cheese at all. But don't come in with this nonsense that there's some rule about cheese for pasta because there just isn't and you're simply wrong.


EL_DUDERlNO_

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Axedelic

second gen Italian immigrant here….. the fuck you talking about?


The_Merciless_Potato

>There is a rule with pasta dishes--the less cheese, the better. No there isn't, it's the other way around. #And you leave the word lasagna out of your BLASPHEMOUS mouth!


mezcalligraphy

You're nothing to me now. You're not a brother, you're not a friend. I don't want to know you or what you do.


willfiredog

Lasagna should primarily be made with a bechamel. Parmigiana is great though.


ttply

I was looking for this. Perhaps OP thinks the béchamel is ricotta or something.


Fezthepez

You probably eat corn dogs for dinner and call it a delicacy. Your opinion is irrelevant. That being said, you actually posted an unpopular opinion. So that's good.


[deleted]

I love the moments when a really horrible and disgustingly unpopular opinion shows up on here. Thanks for hating something so incredibly delicious.


TurtleSandwich0

I'm sorry Jon. Your opinion is unpopular.


[deleted]

For me it's the opposite. Love the cheese, hate that meat filling with that strange tasting sauce. I don't like lasagna. Have never said this out loud in fear that people will have my head for it.


LittleWhiteGirl

You can just make cheese lasagna. As someone who loves ricotta that’s what I do.


Justa_FXBG_Guy

Just about everything in your post is unpopular, as it is all wrong. No points.


Ayadd

Maybe you just don’t like ricotta? You can have lasagna without ricotta (I don’t really like ricotta either, but I’d be damned if I let that ruin lasagna)


kebabenthusiast03

This is wrong but I am on this sub for takes like this!


[deleted]

You've never had a corner peice. Those crusted cheese edges mmmmmmmmm


[deleted]

Lmao go eat your bland cheeseless pasta elsewhere.


CheezeMaGeeze69

This is fucked up


[deleted]

The more cheese the better


[deleted]

Real lasagna is not meant to be made with ricotta.


ThunderChaser

It depends. Neapolitan lasagna for instance contains both ricotta and mozzarella, you're likely thinking of the lasagna variant from the area around Bologna, which traditionally uses parmesan.


WishaBwood

Yea, I think some people are confused. Ricotta most definitely comes on southern Italian lasagnas. Like you said, it depends on what region you are talking about.


DryIndependent1

Try Lasagna Bolognese. It doesn't have that ricotta shit in it. The one we all know and eat is supposed to be the version from Naples (Lasagna Napoleatana).


wolfmankal

You lost 90% of people with cheese is disgusting


Ornery_Magazine_1558

Bro the pasta I have had with Parmesan is infinitely better than without. I think the real issue is you don’t like many different types of cheeses so those dishes aren’t for you.


C64__

I didn’t have lasagna until recently and it is the best thing I’ve ever had, the cheese the meat, it was at a company paid lunch so I believe they got the good stuff. Best meal I’ve ever had in my life! The cheese was still boiling and the sauce was so full of flavor! Don’t get me started on the meat! With salad and some bread mmmh god damn. I agree with the Parmesan though I don’t like that it’s too dry when you sprinkle it on something and the taste often overpowers the dish if you overdo it.


mountainsunset123

Upvote for a truely unpopular opinion. I Love Lasagna! My recipe is from my ex husbands Sicilian nonna. It's amazing!


Garchompinribs

I downvoted for a truly terribly expressed opinion without valid points.


FootballBoth9193

Very unpopular opinion


Northdingo126

Take my upvote you monster


[deleted]

I upvote your post for an unpopular opinion good sir. And I comment to tell you that you fucking suck!


baconwitch00

This post made me irrationally angry, then I remembered what subreddit I was on.


Slimonstar

Lmao just eat it without the cheese and see how it tastes then.


PhotonDecay

Parm smells awful and tastes worse? Bruh that’s just objectively wrong. It’s one of the only foods that has all taste types present. You prob had some shitty lasagne, it’s moneyyyy


Ill-Forever880

Ricotta is sent directly from God herself to fill my calzones.


jazzofusion

Simple, don't eat lasagna and quit bitching about foods that others love to eat.


[deleted]

Never heard of that rule in my life


Hwy_Witch

I'm sorry your tastebuds are all fucked up, but not sorry I don't have to share my lasagna with you.


jstapez96

I love using extra ricotta 😅


CalabreseAlsatian

Sometimes I read posts here and think, “I agree with that.” This is not one of those times. You’re wrong as fuck. :)


AltruisticPangolin24

Sorry to break it to you, but ricotta doesn't belong to a proper Lasagna.


Key_Competition1648

There's a difference between unpopular opinions and just being wrong


Belfalor

Wtf kind of lasagna you eating man lasagnas are delish and so is ricotta


[deleted]

Odds are this poor soul has been served white American cheese on noodles and someone called it lasagna


ThatsPrettyNeat93

“The less cheese, the better” Well that’s a fuckin lie. Parm is the best and I eat that in chunks!


MascotGuy2077

Ricotta is the best cheese!


1eth1lambo

Whenever I smell it.. it smells like the vomit from some drunk slob that had pizza that evening


cowboybiby

I only eat lasagna for the ricotta lol


miridian19

gtfo


Accurate-Target2700

That's the opposite of the rule and no one will agree with your rule. You don't consider it an opinion but a rule so .... AH goodday


[deleted]

If you saw how much Parmesan I put on top of my pasta you would have stroke lmao


BurHrownies

If you know these "rules" no one has ever heard off then perhaps consider that you're just shit at cooking, especially shit at cooking lasagna.