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Post by The Sensational She-Hulk on Mar 7, 2016 14:08:33 GMT -5
Inspired by my leftover fettucine puttanesca for lunch.
Naturally, I twirl mine on a spoon, as is good and proper.
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Post by heroboy on Mar 7, 2016 14:27:48 GMT -5
No option for shoveling what you can into your gaping maw, then slurping all the stragglers in?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2016 14:31:14 GMT -5
This is why civilized people use egg noodles.
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Post by Liz n Dick on Mar 7, 2016 15:00:15 GMT -5
I'm an on-the-plate twirler, because getting a second utensil involved means having to put down your wineglass. A person should never put down their wineglass.
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Post by Gumbercules on Mar 7, 2016 15:06:37 GMT -5
Why don't you eat some bisgetti?
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Post by pairesta on Mar 7, 2016 15:19:33 GMT -5
I guess a combination of plate twirling and heroboy 's method. Although I was always impressed by the "on the spoon" crowd. That meant you grew up eating pasta enough that you invented a whole move for it.
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Post by Baron von Costume on Mar 7, 2016 15:23:58 GMT -5
Straigh ol' fork on plate... though eating bad spaghetti at a fundraiser on Saturday I was definitely reminded that I really never eat spaghetti anymore. When cooking for myself I'll almost always go for something like Penne or Fusilli or even Gnocchi. Or I'll just go the cheesy route with macaroni or cavatappi.
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Post by pairesta on Mar 7, 2016 16:01:56 GMT -5
Straigh ol' fork on plate... though eating bad spaghetti at a fundraiser on Saturday I was definitely reminded that I really never eat spaghetti anymore. When cooking for myself I'll almost always go for something like Penne or Fusilli or even Gnocchi. Or I'll just go the cheesy route with macaroni or cavatappi. Same here across the board. Those shapes are much better for a tomato sauce anyways. I only do spaghetti with a meat sauce if my kids request it.
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Post by Baron von Costume on Mar 7, 2016 16:03:13 GMT -5
This reminds me though, I have tortellini to use up for dinner, hope I still have a ziploc of garden sauce in the freezer.
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Post by The Sensational She-Hulk on Mar 7, 2016 16:18:04 GMT -5
I guess a combination of plate twirling and heroboy 's method. Although I was always impressed by the "on the spoon" crowd. That meant you grew up eating pasta enough that you invented a whole move for it. I grew up that way, and I remember the first time I had spaghetti at a friend's house as a kid - I nearly died when I saw them using forks and knives to cut it up. They thought I was equally weird for twirling it on a spoon, but honestly, I can't think of a better way to get pasta into my mouth with a minimum of fuss! Less chance of a stray strand dangling onto my boobs and getting sauce everywhere. We have a lot of linguine and fettuccine at home because that's what my dad always wants. I'm a pasta whore, though, so as long as it can legally be marketed as such I'm there.
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Post by Some Kind of Munster on Mar 7, 2016 16:48:07 GMT -5
I twirl on the plate but my wife is a spoon twirler. Our daughter uses the heroboy method so I think we cover all the bases in our house except for that knife and fork business.
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Post by 🔪 silly buns on Mar 7, 2016 16:56:32 GMT -5
Spaghetti sandwich
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Mar 7, 2016 21:48:59 GMT -5
Fellow pasta whore here. I'm eating it RIGHT NOW.
Anyway, I use the fork on the plate, unless it's proving extra hard to wrangle and then I use my spoon.
People who cut it up are the devil. Also I once saw someone put KETCHUP on it. I fainted dead away.
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Post by songstarliner on Mar 7, 2016 22:03:01 GMT -5
My Italian grandmother taught us that spoon twirling was for children and tourists. Of course I WAS a child at the time, but she had no patience for crass American table manners (ie my mother's family's manners.) So yeah, I'm a plate twirler because the shame runs deep in me: what if a real Eye-talian is silently judging me at the restaurant??
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Mar 7, 2016 22:37:00 GMT -5
My mother always broke it before cooking, so no cutting was needed. This was when it was common to buy the Kraft spaghetti dinner in the green box; I don't know if she still does it, though.
Now whether I twirl on plate or spoon just depends on my mood.
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Post by pairesta on Mar 8, 2016 7:00:55 GMT -5
People who cut it up are the devil. Also I once saw someone put KETCHUP on it. I fainted dead away. I've seen Goodfellas dozens of times, and yet I never put it together until it was pointed out at TOC that DeNiro's putting ketchup on his pasta when they're eating at Tommy's mom's house. Holy shit. That's the most unsettling thing he does in the entire movie.
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Post by LazBro on Mar 8, 2016 9:02:40 GMT -5
I like pasta most any shape you can get it, though I would say that good ol' spaghetti is still my favorite. That or bucatini. I like strings more than ribbons and the thicker the better.
Sadly, long pasta is more difficult for Baby Snape to eat, so I usually go with shapes now. Elbows, penne, farfalle. Not that it really matters, because unless it's covered in cheese sauce and came in a blue box, Baby Snape doesn't much like pasta anyhow.
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Post by Liz n Dick on Mar 8, 2016 9:32:53 GMT -5
Here's another vote for spaghetti as favorite pasta shape. I find it so much more satisfying than other shapes. However, I'll admit something shameful from my household -- my mother uses a knife to cut hers up.
::Pause for gasps of horror and scornful glances from those few who can still look in my direction::
I guess her excuse is that she's a child of the midcentury Midwest, and doing stuff like twirling spaghetti was just too spicy for her people to handle. Her other excuse now is that pasta is Hegle's favorite food, and she shares off of Boomer's plate (when she's finished the tiny little cat plate we make of every dinner for her; my god, I'm a Cat Lady monster). If it's not cut into bite-sized pieces, disaster ensues.
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Post by The Sensational She-Hulk on Mar 8, 2016 11:03:51 GMT -5
My Italian grandmother taught us that spoon twirling was for children and tourists. Of course I WAS a child at the time, but she had no patience for crass American table manners (ie my mother's family's manners.) So yeah, I'm a plate twirler because the shame runs deep in me: what if a real Eye-talian is silently judging me at the restaurant?? I remember my Italian grandfather and great-grandfather twirling their spaghetti on a spoon, and we were taught by them and my dad that this was the "right" way to do it, haha. We're from Abruzzo, though, so maybe it's more of a regional thing? I've heard that there are Italians who consider spoon twirling to be crass, but I guess we're not from the part of Italy that does.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Mar 8, 2016 11:25:17 GMT -5
I used the spoon growing up, but switched to doing it on the plate at some point, primarily because when I have noodles now I frequently don't have a spoon handy.
I also sometimes twirl it with chopsticks, which I'm getting pretty good at.
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Post by Albert Fish Taco on Mar 8, 2016 13:59:54 GMT -5
People who cut it up are the devil. Also I once saw someone put KETCHUP on it. I fainted dead away. Just did an involuntary shudder at that
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Post by Gumbercules on Mar 8, 2016 14:02:18 GMT -5
Oooh, I know how to figure out the proper way. Let's go to a really expensive Ristorante in Italy, and see if they provide a spoon with the silverware during the pasta course. If so, then it's meant to be used.
Repeat testing may be needed.
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Post by The Sensational She-Hulk on Mar 8, 2016 14:24:51 GMT -5
Oooh, I know how to figure out the proper way. Let's go to a really expensive Ristorante in Italy, and see if they provide a spoon with the silverware during the pasta course. If so, then it's meant to be used. Repeat testing may be needed. I'm willing to make the necessary sacrifices.
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Post by Liz n Dick on Mar 8, 2016 15:01:51 GMT -5
Oooh, I know how to figure out the proper way. Let's go to a really expensive Ristorante in Italy, and see if they provide a spoon with the silverware during the pasta course. If so, then it's meant to be used. Repeat testing may be needed. This will be a brutal hardship, but it's for science.
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Post by pairesta on Mar 9, 2016 9:39:42 GMT -5
My Italian grandmother taught us that spoon twirling was for children and tourists. Of course I WAS a child at the time, but she had no patience for crass American table manners (ie my mother's family's manners.) So yeah, I'm a plate twirler because the shame runs deep in me: what if a real Eye-talian is silently judging me at the restaurant?? I remember my Italian grandfather and great-grandfather twirling their spaghetti on a spoon, and we were taught by them and my dad that this was the "right" way to do it, haha. We're from Abruzzo, though, so maybe it's more of a regional thing? I've heard that there are Italians who consider spoon twirling to be crass, but I guess we're not from the part of Italy that does. I'm gonna speculate here, but Abruzzo and Lazio to its east mark the "pasta line" that divides the country into fresh vs. dried pasta. North of Abruzzo, more often than not they use fresh, homemade pasta. It tends to be easier to twirl. Abruzzo and south, they tend to use dried pasta, which is springier and a little more unruly. Hence, using the spoon. So to your point, yeah, this might be the whole north vs south Italy feud rearing its head again, or just regional pride that northerners don't need spoons for their more supple pastas. Now I await songstarliner pointing out that her grandmother is Neapolitan, thus shooting my whole theory to shit.
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Post by ganews on Mar 9, 2016 11:05:39 GMT -5
"That's why Ah always order noodles without meat sawwse."
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Post by songstarliner on Mar 9, 2016 11:22:57 GMT -5
My Italian family is from .... . . . . dun dun DUNNNNN . Abruzzo! Fara San Martino and Guardiagrele. But come to think of it, she married into the family. Maybe she grew up in an anti-spoon region and thought her inlaws were boorish heathens. I always assumed the scorn was for my Irish-American mother, who definitely spooned it.
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Post by LazBro on Mar 9, 2016 11:36:12 GMT -5
When and if I twirl, it's on the plate, because dirtying a spoon for something as simple as eating spaghetti is borderline insanity.
However, the appropriate way to eat spaghetti is not offered in this poll. The proper way is to grab a bunch of strands with your fork, take the apex into your mouth, and then chew and slurp your way through them. No spinning necessary.
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Post by Baron von Costume on Mar 9, 2016 12:24:38 GMT -5
Italy is so wacky in their food individuality by region that it would surprise me if by drive two towns over in any direction you'd get a different response to what is proper.
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Post by The Sensational She-Hulk on Mar 9, 2016 12:37:29 GMT -5
My Italian family is from .... . . . . dun dun DUNNNNN . Abruzzo! Fara San Martino and Guardiagrele. But come to think of it, she married into the family. Maybe she grew up in an anti-spoon region and thought her inlaws were boorish heathens. I always assumed the scorn was for my Irish-American mother, who definitely spooned it. Ha! That's hilarious. My family is from Penne.
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