Linguine

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Linguine pescatore: linguine served with seafood.
Linguine pescatore: linguine served with seafood.

Linguine (sometimes misspelled linguini) are a form of pasta — flat like fettuccine and trenette, but narrow like spaghetti. The name means "little tongues" in Italian. Linguine originates from the Campania region of Italy.[citation needed]

[edit] Popular culture

In Chappelle's Show, the beatdown that Rick James took was stated to have "his legs look like linguini."

In the Fox Show "Bones" one of the characters Special Agent Seeley Booth makes a comment in which he jokingly uses the word linguine as a form of linguistic: "How about this for rhyming linguine, see you later alligator."