Strangle the priest pasta:
גרסה I Strangle the priest pasta: One of the legends created to explain the origin of the name goes back to the tradition of the women from Romagna preparing this type of pasta for the local priest, while the husbands, evidently a little bit more anticlerical, wished the priest would choke while he was stuffing himself with it. Graziano Pozzetto, an expert in tradition and cuisine from Romagna, suggests that the name’s etimology can be taken back to "the good texture of the strozzapreti ... which was used to calm the hunger, so well that even the priest (that in the popular imagination was pictured as heavy eater) would have chocked on them". Signor Pozzetto, in the same book (La cucina romagnola, Franco Muzzio Editore, 1995) gives one more interpretation of the name, linking it to that sharp and firm movement with which the azdora [the housewife in Romagna] ‘chokes’ the dough strips to make the strozzapreti: "... in that particular moment you would presume that the azdora would express such a rage (perhaps triggered by the misery and difficulties of her life) to be able to strangle a priest!". גרסא II: Priest Chokers: Strangolapreti, or Priest Chokers: In case you were wondering, the term means Priest Choker carries with it the implication that these rather hearty dumplings will catch in a priest's delicate throat as they're going down גרסא III: Strangolapreti: Strangolapreti literally translates into priest chokers. But no, these are not some sort of Satanist dish. Italian cuisine has plenty of recipes called strozzapreti, strangolapreti, strangulaprieviti and so on. They all hint at the fact that priests had (have) a reputation for being gourmands. Legend wants that some of them liked these dishes so much they ended choking themselves upon them. Plus, given the role the Church has always played in Italy, it was always expected for parishioners to be kind enough to present their priest with food presents. This probably did not always happen out of free will but more out of social pressure and dishes with such names were born