What's happened to lasagne verdi sheets?

[John the Monkey]

So, essentially, it's a Lasagnes Verdis Reqiuem?

 

[John the Monkey]

Also, will this be something that Peter Kay is pretending to remember in 20 years?

"Remember green lasagne? What was that all about?" (hilarity ensues)

 

[John the Monkey]

[QUOTE 3885201, member: 259"]Merda bianca di cane...[/QUOTE]
Aglio. Pane.

AGLIO. PANE!

 

[srw]

Odd. Lasagne is a feminine plural so the colour green ought to be verde.

Well yes. I thought the same, but google auto-corrects lasagne verde to lasagna verde (presumably singular). And as well as Barilla, Waitrose believes that it's lasagne verdi. As does no less an authority than the Accademia Italiana di cucina.

A bit of a google search points out that verde derives from the Latin 3rd decelension viridis rather than the more conventional 1st/2nd declension adjectives which have become -o/-i and -a/-e in masculine and feminine respectively. So I suspect that verde is an adjective that doesn't change with gender, and the plural is verdi in both genders.

Oh, and for fun, lasagna comes "from Latin lasanum ‎(“cooking pot”), from Ancient Greek λάσανον ‎(lásanon,“trivet or stand for a pot”), pl. λάσανα ‎(lásana). Others argue the Italian lasagna originally derived from the Arabic (Semitic) lawzinaj ("almond cake")."

 

[John the Monkey]

It's not as funny when someone explains it, though.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Odd. Lasagne is a feminine plural so the colour green ought to be verde.

Aye, but the plural of verde is verdi - masculine and feminine both.
Gli occhi (m.pl.) verdi = green eyes
Le lasagne verdi(f.pl) = green lasagne
Ciaooo!

 

[nickyboy]

Aye, but the plural of verde is verdi - masculine and feminine both.
Gli occhi (m.pl.) verdi = green eyes
Le lasagne verdi(f.pl) = green lasagne
Ciaooo!

@User sounded clever but you sound proper clever

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

@User sounded clever but you sound proper clever

Not really

My sheets are cotton

 

[TreeHuggery]

Haven't been able to find spinach lasagne for a couple of years now ;-(

haven't been able to find Heinz baked beans with veggie sausages for even longer......

 

[Pat "5mph"]

@User sounded clever but you sound proper clever

I am only clever with words ... oh, wait a minute ...

 

[Fnaar]

Odd. Lasagne is a feminine plural so the colour green ought to be verde.

Miss Goodbody occasionally likes to get a bit "feminine plural" between the sheets...

 

[CopperBrompton]

Try Middlesbrough, No Ocado, Waitrose, John Lewis

And people live in such a place?