Culture differences. Want to know the importance of pasta in Italy, compared to the USA?  If you want to buy some spaghetti at Fresh Values near our home in Holladay, and you're walking along the aisle too quickly, you'll miss the pasta section--which is about 4 feet long.  I was in our smallish grocery store here in Rome and had to take a photo. This is the first aisle of three full aisles of different kinds of pasta.  I was going to photograph each section but the grocery store people said it isn't allowed to take photos inside the store.  Not sure why; but I thought I'd cooperate.