What did Italians eat before they invented pasta?

[Sparkletor 2.0]

Rocks? Wood? Mud? Fish?

 

[Cat tit bingo]

They ate the components to pasta, basically eggs flour and tomatoes.

 

[Otis Mallebrok]

Bread

 

[Absolutego]

If the Aeneid is to be believed, flat bread with toppings aka pre-tomato pizza.

 

[Montalbane]

We starved

 

[Gangstalker #32194]

puls

 

[Tour of Italy]

Unlimited soup, salad, and breadsticks.

 

[Tragi-Chan]

Water.

 

[PixarsTedKennedy]

Each others back hair.

 

[Napoleon Bonerfart]

The same as everybody else: your mom.

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

Probably some kind of grim bullshit made from amaranth and leaves.

 

[SentinentCloud]

they would eat other italians bassicaly that was the main reason they reproduced

 

[Local Farmer]

Spaghetti

 

[Dysnomia]

Didn't the Chinese invent pasta?

 

[DankSmoker]

Cock

 

[Absolutego]

Didn't the Chinese invent pasta?

It actually pre-dates whenever they came up with noodles. Same concept, but Etruscans were making pasta a good 500 years before we have records of the Chinese making noodles. A great case of different cultures having converged evolution on something. The Chinese never got so obsessed over shapes the way the Italians did.

 

[Preacher ✝]

Real answer: Rice and rice-like grains. Farro is a good example of one that was popular in Roman times.

 

[Vantablack Truth]

Human flesh

 

[Farsided]

Pastas were induced by Divine creation. They are eternal, the sustenance of time itself.
The italians come much later when weird marine lifeforms with hands that went like this '' washed up on the shore of the mediterranean sea

 

[Not a bee]

They were like a fungus eating weird shit in dark, moist places