I'm sick of hearing about "spagghettii squash" and "zucchini noodles" being used as substitutes

You're not fooling anyone with "zoodles" you can tell you're eating zucchini<br><br>If you like vegetables, great, but the notion that using a spiralizer somehow makes zucchini or squash taste like pasta is ridiculous. It's like calling a portobello mushroom a steak substitute. Sure, it's a big piece of food that you can grill and put barbecue sauce on, but at the end of the day you're still eating a mushroom, and it's nowhere near the quality of a steak. <br><br>If you have nutritional or diabetic reasons for subbing out pasta for something, more power to you. But don't tell me it's just as good or that I wouldn't be able to tell the difference, especially when you're being messy and calling it *actual spaghetti.* Be honest with yourself and your guests. You're not making pasta, you're making a dish with squash. And this is coming from someone who loves squash and rarely eats pasta. But I feel that we as a collective universe need to stop pretending that clearly different things are somehow the same because of a twitter trend.