God knows where, really. I went to a few Indian shops to look for the stuff, and all that the sales staff could do was consult each other and have a good laugh at the thought of having something like an 'alphabet' shaped macaroni. Worse still, I then visited a few Chinese/oriental store, and the poor staff at those outlets were totally confused. One of then even directed me to a primary school in the vicinity. When I was much younger, most of the soup I had contained the alphabets and we used to fascinate ourselves making words --in that way we learnt a bit of spellings, whilst at the same time, enjoyed having our soup !
ABC Soup, also called Alphabet Soup, has small bits of letter-shaped pasta in it. You can purchase a bag of this pasta to use in homemade soup at most major grocery stores.
Alefbet soup has to be made from scratch outside of Israel. You can find Manischewitz Alefbet Pasta on Amazon.
Spaghetti is a long thin pasta.
Alphabet soup is a mixture. It contains multiple ingredients such as broth, pasta, vegetables, and seasonings that are combined together but can still be separated out.
A spiral pasta is more commonly known as rotini pasta. The pasta is twisted or screw shaped and ideal for hearty meats and sauces.
pasta in Italian is called string
Ziti; it's a tube-shaped pasta.
Vermicelli is a type of thick pasta. It begins with V.
pasta bologna
penne
Pasta
It really depends on the pasta shape. If it's a hollow or tubular pasta then the volume of one cup won't weight as much as a solid or long pasta. If I measure out a bag of ziti for instance, I can get 2.5 cups out of one pound of pasta. However, if I measure out one cup of pastina or soup pasta, such as alphabet or stars, I would probably only get one cup out of a pound.