Japanese pasta dish ranked 24th worst food in the world, but does it deserve that dishonor?

21 comments

1. Borederline Japan bashing. I love Japanese pasta and am offended by this ranking system.

2. I mean, it’s different but not like the worst.

   I have a penchant for mentaiko pasta, as it has the trappings of caviar pastas you’d find at fine dining establishments.

3. It’s like a McRib. Is it authentic? No. Do you have fond memories of your mom giving it to you for lunch as a little kid and get cravings from nostalgia? Yes!

4. I’m not the biggest fan of the Napolitan but, yeah, that’s complete bullshit. It’s not a bad dish by any reasonable standard.

5. I think it would be reasonable for someone to argue that there are better pasta dishes than napolitan. But you have to be a pretty big snob to consider it bad, let alone among the worst in the world. I like it a lot.

6. I might take it seriously if they actually showed how they determined which dishes are worst. As it is, it’s just a random clickbait article, most likely assembled by a bot. https://www.tasteatlas.com/50-worst-rated-dishes-in-the-world

7. What a joke of a website, id rather read a list from buzzfeed.

8. It’s pretty terrible if you use the classic prep of ketchup, bacon, and peppers.

   I do understand in many ways its a kid dish, served in schools, and many eat it for nostalgia reasons.

9. Every spaghetti, really every “Italian” dish, that I’ve had in Japan was weird.

10. Napolitan is delicious. Obviously it’s not traditional and doesn’t pretend to be. Guaranteed whoever made this list has never tried it. They just saw spaghetti + ketchup and thought it would be perfect for this list.

11. Ironically, the most memorable meal I had recently was a pasta dish at late night in Shinjuku.

    It was some wack combination between carbonara and neapolitan.

    Was it strange? Yes.

    Delicious? Absolutely!!!

    The “worst” food in Japan, IMO, is arguably bread.

    Milk break is good but quite expensive, finding something like a good pretzel is nigh impossible, they just make everything into sweet pastry.

    But it is understandable, the same goes for most Asian countries where they don’t eat bread on a daily basis.

    Vietnam, as much as they were heavily influenced by the French, only care about baguettes (heavily modified version to boot)

12. Please, who ever made this list needs to spend ten minutes on /stupidfood and they would have a true list of worst pasta dishes.

    This actually looks edible.

13. green peps BLEH

14. Author fails to realize almost every legit pasta dish in Italy and the States are finished in a pan together. What a douche

15. I love the idea of sautéed spaghetti. I don’t love ketchup.

16. Napolitan is the 24th worst? You have any idea how many dishes have bile mixed in them in Southeast Asia? We have stewed okra in Greece… that bite has wet fur outside and a burst of snot and pellets inside. Napolitan is fine.

17. A Napolitan, it is not italian pasta.
    Yes this noodle is spaghetti, but it is no aldente actually over boiled.

    Many of Japanese love this ketchap taste noodle .

    It is eaten at home or oldfashioned cafe.

18. Everybody thought I was weird as a kid for not liking Napolitan but now I feel validated

19. I love natto spaghetti, my mom used to make it for me all the time. Had stomach flu and threw it up once, couldn’t stomach it for basically the rest of my childhood lol. I went to San Francisco a couple years ago and went to a small east-meets-west fusion japanese restaurant, where they had natto spaghetti. I hadn’t had it for probably a decade or longer and it was so good, I ate my plate clean lol.

20. An opinion piece of a this English language travel guide, Taste Atlas. So what?

    Why do I care what others say about the food I enjoy?

21. It’s one of my least favorite food next to Thailand’s ‘American’ fried rice. The flavor profile is good for children (but I never liked it myself). Taste like very sweet and strong ham taste noodles. I prefer yakisoba which also have ketchup in it. Napolian pasta is not it for me.