My mom made pasta and it really hit the spot

[alpacinou]

Is this correct?

1. My mom made pasta last week and it really hit the spot.

Or do I need to add the eating part?

2. My mom made pasta last week and we ate it and it really hit the spot.

I sort of feel that both 1 and 2 are not natural. How can I express it better?

 

[stanislaw.masny]

As a non-native speaker, I would also put it this way. I am curious what the specialists will say.

 

[Rover_KE]

1 is OK. It’s reasonable to assume you ate it for it to hit the spot.

 

[Skrej]

Use #1. It's a completely natural and common way of expressing it. #2 is not. In fact it's borderline run-on.

A slightly shorter way of expressing it would be "Mom's pasta last week really hit the spot."

 

[Tdol]

What else would you do with her pasta?

 

[probus]

Throw it at the wall to see if it sticks.

 

[SoothingDave]

I was going to mention this is the old school way to test for doneness. Or an elaborate joke all of our moms played on us.

Throw it at the wall to see if it sticks.

 

[jutfrank]

Throw it at the wall to see if it sticks.

That's a different kind of 'hitting the spot'!

(Top tip: Don't do this after you've added the tomato sauce. It upsets the wife.)

 

[Skrej]

Throw it at the wall to see if it sticks.

I was going to mention this is the old school way to test for doneness.

(Top tip: Don't do this after you've added the tomato sauce. It upsets the wife.)

This is purely conjecture, but I feel like sauce would lower the coefficient of friction anyway, thus making the pasta more likely to slide down the wall and thereby invalidating the stickiness=doneness test.

Purely theoretical, however. Maybe the sauce makes it stickier*. Still invalidates the test, regardless.



* I suspect too it would depend upon whether this was a ragu, marinara, pesto, alfredo, or puttanesca, etc.