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>>>>There's antipasta but I've never eaten unclepasta.
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>>>The word you were looking for is 'propasta', not unclepasta. And it's antipasto, no?
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>>I always thought it was antepasta (the course before the pasta). Google, however, asked if I meant "antipasto" and then brought up a couple of sites where posters insisted on my spelling. My favorite was
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>>"Actually, I think it's antepasta, but only a churl (or a pedagog) would insist on it."
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>>Strangely enough, that was in response to a post of a (I think) George Carlin joke
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>>"If you eat equal amounts of pasta and antipasta, will you still be hungry?"
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>>where anti fits the joke much better.
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>>Sort of like
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>>If you mix equal quantities of matter and anti-matter, does it really matter?
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>The Italian families in my old neighborhood in San Francisco as well as every Italian Restaurant I have eaten in used the word “antipasta”. I guess that things are different on the West Coast! :)

It might be the same on the East Coast where I grew up (I'm only recently transplanted to the Bay area). I've never paid attention to the spelling on the menu only heard it pronounced with a long "e" sound in the middle, not the long "i" as is usually the case when anti is used as a prefix.

Guess I'm showing a bit of the pedagogue here?????