Originally Posted by
Cloudship
Italian-American Lasagne noodles are 3/12-4in wide flat pasta with curly edges.
The term Lasagne is used for both the noodle and the dish. I did not realize there was such a difference in what is called Lasagne here and across the pond until I started digging into this. I think you can find the large flat sheets of pasta at specialty shops, but lasagne in America anyways is seen as more of a homestyle comfort food, and specialty food kind of don't fit it's image.
Keep in mind ricotta itself is different over here. For us it comes in containers like oversized yogurt tubs. Yes you can find real ricotta too now, but most people automatically thin the stuff in tubs. That may be why it is viewed more as a special dish in Europe and a home style dish in the US.
Thanks for the insight into lasagne on the otherside of the pond. I've just searched on google images and I can see why they're called noodles now! I think I've seen them in a supermarket, but overwhelmingly it's the wider and completely flat sheets that you get here. You can get fresh lasagne sheets in supermarkets as well but I don't bother with those as they can be a bit of a faff and also they don't keep if you buy too much. Pre-packaged fresh pasta is quite a big thing over here and most supermarkets will stock a good variety. This is despite it not being very traditionally Italian, as I understand it.