Why do we cook long strings of spaghetti when it's so sloppy to eat?

Masochism? The fun of slurping? The frustration of having it fall off one's fork? A challenge? Esthetics?

Have you ever made your own pasta, BBB?

I'm insulted by the premise of this thread!

Because spaghetti isn't sloppy to eat if you know how to eat it. I prefer the long strands of pasta over the shorter broken downsized version.

You may be insulted, but I bet your shirt is covered with red sauce when you dribble those long threads. Fess up, and wipe your chin.

BBB

This seems, ah, old advice to me.
http://www.drdaveanddee.com/pasta.html
Emily Post says a fork and spoon are proper...

I don't think I've seen people eat spaghetti with a spoon to help them twirl the pasta in years and can't visualize that I saw anyone in Italy do that. Maybe my memory fails, or maybe its a regional thing. Also, most italian spaghetti dishes aren't loaded with sauce - they are more "touched" with sauce.

On the other hand, my italian teacher, originally from Padua, ate her pizza with a knife and fork.

tsarstepan



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