Spaghetti with meatballs is my favorite American dish.  Do you like it?
Love it! Do you have a special recipe?
Well, I have a secret sauce, but my meatballs are not served with egg-based pasta so Italians don't think it's Italian food.  I use flour based pasta.
What kind of meat do you use in your meatballs? Some people like a combination of beef, pork, and veal.
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is tomato sauce with veal meatballs, so-called "pallottelle". In fact, in Abruzzo chitarra alla teramana, is a long spaghetti-like pasta served with small meatballs (polpettine). It is traditional made-in-Abruzzo recipe. It is a generally a first course (primo piatto). The spaghetti are seasoned with meat or vegetable ragù and served with pallottine (little balls, which are actually meatballs).
A dried variation without egg is often marketed as spaghetti or maccheroni alla chitarra within and