Nothing honey mustard and salt can't fix.
I sympathise and have been there; I just kept going until I got to a lit place and out of the ramp ignoring the probable damage in lieu of the possible more horrible dangers.
I hope everything turned out/turns out fine.
I also have only heard it in relation to the speeches made for departed ones.
You can actually live on pasta alone, I do for months. SO MUCH VARIETY!
You can have ravioli, spaghetti, lasagne, cannelloni, risotto, tagliatelle and many many more, you can have them in many types of made up, from egg based to purely wheat based; and if you start considering sauces the possibilities are bigger than possible with a normal breakfast-lunch-dinner schedule for 100 years meaning you could eat a different pasta each day without repeating until you die.
It's not: don't worry you can live on those; it's more like "don't bother, everything else is not as good."