A tagliatelle made from gold that defines the official size of a tagliatelle, at the Palazzo della Mercanzia in Bologna
A tagliatelle made from gold that defines the official size of a tagliatelle, at the Palazzo della Mercanzia in Bologna
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Gold makes for an awful standard due to thermal expansion, but I feel this is more a historical artefact than an actual standard.
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Right? Didn't they define the kilogram, make identical copies of the standard, sent them to different countries, then after years, reunited them and found they all diverged in mass?
And now they have made a perfect silicon sphere with the same mass as the standard kilogram, then counted all the atoms. So now we know the exact mass in silicon atoms of a kilo.
Let's just define tagliatelle in light nanoseconds and be done with it.
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Since 2019, the kg is just defined in terms of the Plank constant and some math with the resonant frequency of cesium as well as the speed of light. There was too much variability in anything physical so they decided to just fix some constants at whatever value they were close to.
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They gave up on that plan. Defining Plank's constant happened first. It could still be done as a secondary confirmation, but it's less of a race now to get away from K
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This is Italy, it's got have style.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagliatelle
Tagliatelle (Italian: [taʎʎaˈtɛlle] ⓘ; from the Italian word tagliare, meaning 'to cut') are a traditional type of pasta from the Italian regions of Emilia-Romagna and Marche. Individual pieces of tagliatelle are long, flat ribbons that are similar in shape to fettuccine and are traditionally about 6 mm (1⁄4 in) wide.[1] Tagliatelle can be served with a variety of sauces, though the classic is a meat sauce or Bolognese sauce.
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Looks like it says 8mm in the picture
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The camera is known to put on a few mm
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Fix it
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Mamma Mia 8
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Thanks I had no idea what it was.
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Is that the skin you unlock if you made 1 million tagliatelle?
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Ah. Good. Now we can calculate the optimal amount of ketchup to pour over them. I also like them uncooked on pineapple pizza. Yummy.
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The first part of this made me think you're making a joke about being tasteless, then you said the pineapple pizza part and given that pineapple on pizza is just plain wrong, you might be serious
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This reminds me of this video that shows how Italian food is a recent invention https://youtu.be/iZZfwyKa0Lc
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A lot of "traditional" national foods are like that, especially if you consider pre-columbian food traditions. If you just limit it to chocolate, tomatoes, sweet and hot peppers, potatoes, and beans, none of which were used or available in Europe until after importation, you see that it gets murky pretty quickly. Funny how we associate potatoes with Ireland, tomatoes with Italy, and chocolate with Switzerland when they're actually all indigenous American foods.
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Well I never.
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"I need to steal... The golden Tagliatelle"
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Hey......I know some of those words! Not all of them....but some!
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It looks extremely al dente.
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It's the ultimate fettuccine noodle. No more measley gold leaf in my Alfredo anymore.
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I picture the security guard at the building there dealing with this one guy who loves tagliatelle but is a total tagliatelle snob, and he keeps ordering it when he goes out but then he comes to rhe Palazzo and he's obsessed, wants to check every noodle against the gold standard, thinks he's being gang stalked, knows the Palazzo asked him not to return but he keeps coming back.
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But does it come with breadsticks?
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