stackyFACTSIf you asked for macaroni a few centuries ago, you weren't guaranteed tiny little elbows. The term was wildly imprecise and used to describe basically any extruded pasta dough. It was a massive linguistic free-for-all where anything boiled and covered in cheese could confidently claim the title.
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