American here! I was doing an "icebreaker" in a group where we went around and said our favorite type of pasta (rigatoni, linguini, bucatini, farfalle, etc.) and was thinking about the many pasta types you can get at the grocery stores here and how common eating pasta is. We have a huge amount of italian immigrants and italian influence here, though, I was wondering if this large amount of pasta-influence is common in Europe as well.