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Indeed the term "vermicelli" literally means "little worms", but do not worry!

It has nothing to do with what's in it, but rather with the shape this type of italian pasta takes.

Vermicelli is nowadays practically undistinguishable from the "spaghetti" (italian form for "little strings"), whose denomination now includes a large variety of italian pasta shapes which have the common characteristic of being long sticks of pasta with variable diameter.

Possibly, the differentiating factor for the vermicelli can be somewhat the diameter. Even small variations make a difference in the way our palate perceives the texture of the same ingredients.

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