How Do You Eat Spaghetti?

[zenie]

Round (like a soup one) spoon and fork

 

[Maurice Picarda]

In Italy, spoon assisted fork use is for young children. Grown ups are expected to be able to use a fork.

I don't care what Italians do. Italy is a corrupt basket case, and its benighted citizens can eat spaghetti with spatulas for all I care. Twirling spaghetti against a spoon allows you to enjoy it to the full.

 

[danny la rouge]

I don't care what Italians do. Italy is a corrupt basket case, and its benighted citizens can eat spaghetti with spatulas for all I care. Twirling spaghetti against a spoon allows you to enjoy it to the full.

I just use a fork myself, but it doesn't matter to me whether people use a knife and fork (as my mother does), or their elbows! Just enjoy.

 

[kyser_soze]

Fork and twist, with a slurp for effect if it's called for...

 

[May Kasahara]

Fork only, basic twirling, constant slurping.

 

[DRINK?]

I had some alphabet spaghetti the other day and all I got was O's....rip off

 

[Biddlybee]

 

[danny la rouge]

I had some alphabet spaghetti the other day

Didn't you hear there's BSE in that!??!!!

 

[subversplat]

I don't even twist - I use a fork to shovel it in and slurp away.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Another vote for fork and spoon combo.
I can do it just using the fork and the plate I just find it easier with a spoon.

 

[Orang Utan]

Now THAT is prissy

 

[CharlieAddict]

slurper

 

[Mrs Miggins]

That's the spoony forky method though - not prissy IMO

 

[Orang Utan]

I don't twist sometimes - just fork it in

 

[Looby]

I voted wrong because I use a spoon and fork too and it's not prissy.

My dad used to cut his up with a knife and fork.

 

[Biddlybee]

Now THAT is prissy

Prissy?



It's the right way!

 

[Orang Utan]

It's the poncy way - the only way is to just get in and dig!

 

[May Kasahara]

I can do it just using the fork and the plate I just find it easier with a spoon.

Whereas I find managing more than one piece of cutlery a challenge If we're eating pasta shapes, more often than not I will just use a spoon

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Whereas I find managing more than one piece of cutlery a challenge If we're eating pasta shapes, more often than not I will just use a spoon

LOL my other half is a bit like that

 

[Orang Utan]

Whereas I find managing more than one piece of cutlery a challenge If we're eating pasta shapes, more often than not I will just use a spoon

Yep, what's the point of using a fork, when you can only get a couple of bits of pasta on the fork and then the bits of sauce start dripping off it

 

[beeboo]

My mum always used to break spaghetti up into small pieces before cooking it, for ease of eating.

Unfortunately this means I never developed the necessary spaghetti eating skills - I never forget the first time I ordered spaghetti in a restaurant and was taken aback that there were these huge long shoelaces of spaghetti. I left most of it as I couldn't fathom out a way getting it in my mouth.

I do eat spaghetti these days, but only at home, where I can just shovel it in

 

[Detroit City]

My mum always used to break spaghetti up into small pieces before cooking it, for ease of eating.

I just break 'em in half before putting in the boiling water....much easier to eat that way...

Sometimes i think spaghetti is the Italians idea of a joke upon all of mankind

 

[Termite Man]

I just eat it off the plate without the need for knife fork or spoon . Cuts down on washing up

 

[Roadkill]

I refuse to believe that anyone can eat spaghetti without the need for the odd slurp.

 

[sleaterkinney]

I don't get how that works - doesn't the food fall off the spoon and how do you get if off the fork without it going everywhere

No, it's easier because you can lift the fork and the spoon, it you just use a fork it flies everywhere when you take it off the plate.

 

[Orang Utan]

Not if you shove it in quickly

 

[poster342002]

The probable reason why there doesn't seem to be any totally 'correct' method to eating spaghetti is (I think ...) that it's originally a derivative of chinese noodles (brought back to Italy by Marco Polo) - which is eaten with chopsticks from a bowl!

 

[maximilian ping]

spaghetti and spoon = silly

 

[May Kasahara]

Yep, what's the point of using a fork, when you can only get a couple of bits of pasta on the fork and then the bits of sauce start dripping off it

Not only that, I have a pathological thing about the squeaking, scraping noise of cutlery on crockery - it actually makes my teeth and ears hurt and my muscles twang in pain. So using a spoon, especially when eating from a bowl, is the safest way.

 

[maximilian ping]

Not only that, I have a pathological thing about the squeaking, scraping noise of cutlery on crockery - it actually makes my teeth and ears hurt and my muscles twang in pain. So using a spoon, especially when eating from a bowl, is the safest way.

what about noise of fork on spoon? eek

i'm sure its only Germans who use spoons to eat spag