# Cooking Pasta and Domestic Arguments

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooking-pasta-and-domestic-arguments/207147>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 13, 2003, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooking-pasta-and-domestic-arguments/207147 "2003-10-13T08:59:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2003, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooking-pasta-and-domestic-arguments/207147/21 "2003-10-14T00:32:51Z")

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Wow, having liveded by the ocean for years, I had no idear that some uv youse called it sea.

Yowzers.

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**Author:** ![caveman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caveman/32/7242_2.png) [@caveman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caveman)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2003, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooking-pasta-and-domestic-arguments/207147/22 "2003-10-14T01:27:49Z")

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If I rinsed my pasta, mom would hit me, my grandfater would have a stroke, and great-grandma Riviello would spin in the grave…

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**Author:** ![Mr.Obvious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dbc845/32.png) [@Mr.Obvious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Obvious)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2003, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooking-pasta-and-domestic-arguments/207147/23 "2003-10-14T15:19:32Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Leaper \*  
> \*\*Wha-HUH?
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> I had no idea that “ocean” was an American term and “sea” was a (presumably) European one. Is this true? \*\*

Christ…lighten up Francis

The Italian chef who told me this used the term sea to represent the Mediterranean Sea…a salt water body of water…and unless you live in Utah…my assumption is that the American translation would be the salty taste that one has experienced with the Atlantic or Pacific oceans…

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