Tripoline is a type of ribbon
pasta
Pasta (, ; ) is a type of food typically made from an unleavened dough of wheat flour mixed with water or eggs, and formed into sheets or other shapes, then cooked by boiling or baking. Rice flour, or legumes such as beans or lentils, ar ...
noodle
Noodles are a type of food made from unleavened dough which is either rolled flat and cut, stretched, or extruded, into long strips or strings. Noodles are a staple food in many cultures (for example, Chinese noodles, Filipino noodles, In ...
s, similar to
mafaldine. It is a thick ribbon ridged on one side.
In the 1930s,
Fascist Italy celebrated its colonial empire by creating new forms of pasta reminiscent of its
African possessions: ''tripoline'' (
Tripoli), ''bengazine'' (
Benghazi), ''assabesi'' (
Assab) and ''abissine'' (
Abyssinia
The Ethiopian Empire (), also formerly known by the exonym Abyssinia, or just simply known as Ethiopia (; Amharic and Tigrinya: ኢትዮጵያ , , Oromo: Itoophiyaa, Somali: Itoobiya, Afar: ''Itiyoophiyaa''), was an empire that historica ...
). Subsequently, in order to erase the references to colonialist
fascism
Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultra-nationalist political ideology and movement,: "extreme militaristic nationalism, contempt for electoral democracy and political and cultural liberalism, a belief in natural social hierarchy an ...
, the tripoline are renamed ''farfalline'' (small butterflies).
References
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Types of pasta