Pasta is a cake

Pasta is a cake. The pase is soft, sweet, the tomato is sweet, the cheese is sweet, and pasta, in italian, means both spaghetti and maccaroni and pastry. Pasta has a very high glycemic index, closer to pastry than to rice, The fact that a cake is the foundation of alimentation of Italians says perhaps something about the national character, which is sweet and soft too, and was blamed upon by Mussolini who believed that pasta was the reason why Italians are no men enough to win wars and dominate other people. Actually, a cake is an cheap food for peasants, mostly men, with very heavy load of work. Wheat needs a deep ploughing, hard working harvesting and other energy-consuming processing; rice requires much less strenght and works of ricefields is often carried out by women.