What is the difference between spaghetti and pasta?!

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Pasta is a generic term for dishes involving baked wheat flour and oil/water breads which are then cooked (boiled or baked, usually). Sometimes the word pasta describes the noodle itself, sometimes it describes a dish (like "we're having pasta" to describe linguine with clam sauce).

Spaghetti is a specific type of pasta which is long, thin and cylindrical. The word specifically refers to the spaghetti noodle, invented in Italy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasta

Spaghetti is a type of pasta. There are many different types of pasta, like fafalle, fettuccini, and so many others.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pasta

Spaghetti is a type of pasta.

Penne is a type of pasta.
It's like saying 'whats the difference between penne and pasta?'

spaghetti is hte long thin pasta. like tagletelli. and pasa are the shapes. the small cylinder ones.

Spaghetti IS a type of pasta.

Spaghetti is a type of pasta ;)