Animal-Inspired Pasta Names
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
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🗓️ 6 December 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Many types of pasta are named for their resemblance to things we see or interact with every day, and so it should be no surprise several of those names are inspired by animals. Can you guess any of these animalogies before listening? Did I miss any? Take a listen to find out.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Food for Thaunt. Today's episode is Animal Inspired Pasta. Hi everyone, my name is Colleen Patrick Gudro. You can find me at JoyfulVegan.com. |
| 0:27.4 | If you're interested in vegan travel, you can check out JoyfulVeganTrips.com. This podcast, Food for Thaunt, |
| 0:34.1 | is 100% listener supported. There are no ads or sponsors on Food for Thaunt. So please join other |
| 0:41.2 | supporters by going to patreon.com slash Colleen Patrick Gudro to become a supporter today at your |
| 0:47.8 | chosen level. Thank you so much for doing so. Thanks for supporting. For subscribing and for |
| 0:53.2 | listening to Food for Thaunt, and if you would, I would be so grateful if you could go over to |
| 0:59.1 | wherever you listen to podcasts and leave a rating and review. If you've been following my work |
| 1:06.6 | for a while, you know that one of the things I do is examine the animal-related words and expressions |
| 1:12.6 | we use every day. Animal-related words and expressions I call animologies. I have been doing this |
| 1:21.1 | for many years. You can find a TEDx talk on anomologies called Anomology. I had a podcast. We had a |
| 1:28.8 | podcast podcast, Spinoff, called Anomology, which went on for a year. Just because it's a lot |
| 1:37.6 | to manage two podcasts, I decided to just pull back, focus on food for thought. That doesn't mean we |
| 1:42.6 | can't include anomologies in this podcast. So here we are. One of the reasons I started looking |
| 1:49.8 | at anomologies is because I have always wanted to be the most effective communicator on behalf of |
| 1:55.9 | animals. And because I have an insatiable desire to understand the roots of words we use. And so |
| 2:02.1 | over the years, I have discovered hundreds, hundreds of words and idioms and metaphors and proverbs |
| 2:08.8 | and everyday expressions, even if you're interested in this quite fascinating letters of the alphabet. |
| 2:15.6 | That reflect how deeply connected we are to other animals and how integral they are |
| 2:23.3 | to who we are as human beings, as compassionate human beings specifically. Now, when I say that, |
| 2:30.4 | I want to emphasize that some of these anomologies are positive and some are pejorative, |
| 2:36.8 | but they all do reflect how deeply rooted animals are in our consciousness, in our history, |
| 2:43.0 | in our hearts, in our language, and in our habits, including in our food. So if you look at |
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