Homemade pasta is bullshit

I mean you spend $100 on this shiny chrome equipment that honestly is going to sit in the cabinets 99.99% of the time. When you do take it out, you spend 45 minutes making pasta and leaving a mess that is going to take another 30 minutes to clean up.

So you finally cook it up with your favorite sauce and then it tastes… marginally better than the dry stuff from the store. Accounting for the fact that of course it’s going taste better since you put so much money and effort into it, it probably objectively tastes the exactly the same.

I bet if you opened up a fancy Italian restaurant that made a big deal about how you make your pasta fresh 4 times a day, but in reality just used the stuff from the supermarket, people would rave about how incredible the restaurant’s “homemade pasta” is.

If someone does open this restaurant, I have a great name for it — Placebo’s! Emphasis on first syllable.