Apparently many people simply call it “sick soup”, and I’d never heard of it until a few weeks ago.

16 comments

  1. I have no idea what you’re talking about, so I guess that means it’s not common here. 🙂

  3. Noodle soup is common when sick and you might use little star pasta in that (or letters, strings, anything small), but I’ve never heard of pastina and when I googled it it showed both normal noodle soup and some sort of creamy dish. If the pastina you’re talking about is the creamy dish then no, that isn’t a thing here.

  4. Never heard of it, but maybe someone else has. The first time I heard about getting soup when you’re sick was in some American TV show or movie.

  5. Just googled it. I have never seen or heard of it before. Most people just drink tea and stay indoors a bit more, when sick. Children may get warm squash (like ribena)

  6. Only time I have ever heard of it is in Italy. Traditional tiny pasta you cook in broth and give to ill people. Like Jewish Chicken Soup but it’s got pasta because: Italy!

  7. Some people eat chicken broth with noodles during a cold or a stomach flu but I’ve never heard of pastina

  8. We have a broth sick-soup with small noodles. Letters/stars… But it doesn’t have a specific name.

  9. Similar. Vegetables &chicken broth with fine fine vermicelli. It’s also a confort soup, and part of the cocido dish as well (although the cocido broth is done with other meats and stronger)

  10. Never heard of it, but when sick I usually just have some canned pea soup and feel much better afterwards.

  11. Not really.

    I did make an “Asian fusion chicken soup” for my spouse once though, with plenty of ginger, lemongrass and chillies. I usually lose all appetite when I’m I’ll, so any food would be wasted on me.

  12. I think most people will be confused cause you called it pastina and no one says that, and people don’t realise it just means small pasta. Loads of.places will give you broth with a small type of noodle in it hough.

  13. Its basically a broth (vegatbke based or chicken based) . In italy we add small tiny pasta rice sized.

  15. Yes. In Italy we have “pastina” in brodo.
    Pastina literally means little pasta, because we use a very small size of pasta to make the recipe.

    I’ll add that I love eating pastina in brodo even when I am not sick. It’s just good.

  16. That’s the nickname of the town’s pedo. They call him pastina because he’s in kids’ mouths.

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