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>>>>>>...and the submarinara was a poor attempt at a joke.
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>>>>>Like I said. Our diet is so dull, and badly cooked, what would I know if there is a submarinara? :-)
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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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>>>Sure - Antipasto (one tends to forget that pasto is just Italian for a meal, isn't it, so antipasto is like a starter, as in "before-meal"?
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>>I didn't forget it.........I never knew it. Does Italian user "anti" to mean before????
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>Wouldn't that be "ante", at least in English?
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ante is a latin prefix. a.m. is ante meridiem - before middle of the day. How that evolved into modern use as antipasto (singular) or antipasti (plural) is one for the history books.

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>>BTW...........Since this is still going on, I assume none of our Italian members have stepped in with a definitive answer. How about it guys & dolls?