User:RM395/Course/Manypedia/Spaghetti

For this assignment I chose to compare the article on Spaghetti and compare between the English version and the Italian version. I chose this article and language because I felt that the Italian article would have a lot more information about it compared to the English one, since it originated from Italy. I was also interested in what types of differences they might have.

While the English article had a lot less information than the Italian one, I was surprised that both articles had two identical sets of pictures. Both of them were also placed in the same general area which may imply that one version may have pulled off pictures from the other one. While both articles addressed the origins of spaghetti in Sicily, the English one also mentioned when spaghetti was first introduced in the United States. Both articles discuss the different recipes associated with spaghetti and how it is most commonly served with tomato sauce, herbs, and cheese, but they also discuss how other cultures may use ham or bologna. Both articles have a section where they discuss world records, but both are different. The English one talks about the world's largest bowl of spaghetti, while the Italian one talks about the world's longest spaghetti strand, the English one being in USA (California) and the Italian one in Europe (Germany).

What interested me was the fact that the Italian article also addresses some disambiguation that may be associated to spaghetti. The article addresses the use of spaghetti in computer code (spaghetti code). There was also a religious reference to spaghetti in the article which discusses the religious belief that the universe was created by a gigantic spaghetti monster.

Overall, the articles matched what I had expected, that the Italian article would have more information than the English one, but something that I was not expecting was that while the English version tried to address spaghetti more in terms of the USA's perspective, they also tried to include Italy's perspective too. The English article mentions how spaghetti is prepared differently in Italy (al dente, which is a bit more chewy compared to other places which prefer softer spaghetti). Rather expecting statistics in America, they had statistics of spaghetti in Italy such as consumption rates.