How Do You Eat Spaghetti?

[May Kasahara]

what about noise of fork on spoon? eek

Aha! Another way in which my monoprong approach is made of win

 

[moomoo]

If I'm at home, I'll cut it up so I can shovel it in quicker.

I tend not to order it in restaurants as I'd be bound to spill sauce all down me.

 

[danny la rouge]

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!

According the Stephen Fry on QI, that's a myth. He says there was evidence of pasta in the Italian peninsula long before Marco Polo, and pasta isn't much like Chinese noodles anyway.

 

[Kanda]

twist it (on the plate, no spoon required) and then stick it all my mouth...

^^ This.

 

[poster342002]

According the Stephen Fry on QI, that's a myth. He says there was evidence of pasta in the Italian peninsula long before Marco Polo, and pasta isn't much like Chinese noodles anyway.

Don't know about the QI stuff, but pasta wouldn't be totally like Chinese noodles even if it is a derivative of them because, as I say, it'd be a derivative of the original concept/recipe rather than a direct copy.

But who knows? Lost in the mists of time, I guess ...

 

[danny la rouge]

I always believe Stephen Fry.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

spaghetti and spoon = silly

Less silly than mashing peas onto the back of your fork though (but I digress)

 

[chymaera]

Chopped into short lengths so I can eat it with a spoon and not make a mess.

 

[maximilian ping]

Chopped into short lengths so I can eat it with a spoon and not make a mess.

ghaa

 

[skyscraper101]

I just slice it up lengthways along the plate and then slice it up sideways so its all cut into nice short strands, then just eat with knife and fork like a regular plate of food.

I don't get all this twisty spoon malarkey. Too much faffing.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I don't get all this twisty spoon malarkey. Too much faffing.

Oh come on!! Where's your sense of adventure??

 

[skyscraper101]

Oh come on!! Where's your sense of adventure??

I iz too hungry man!!

 

[sojourner]

Another vote for spoon and fork combo

 

[May Kasahara]

Bloody sophisticates ^^^

 

[Orang Utan]

The sort who eat a banana with a knife and fork

 

[Mrs Miggins]

The sort who eat a banana with a knife and fork

Now that is fucking nuts...

I often witnessed Germans eating sandwiches with a knife and fork when I lived there. Equally nuts.

 

[sojourner]

I beg your pardon?

I wouldn't touch a dirty banana with YOURS, let alone cutlery

urgh.

 

[sojourner]

Bloody sophisticates ^^^

*shrugs*

What can I say? I live in the bright lights big city town of Sane Tellins, it's how we eat round here. Okay, it's not, it's how I eat round here, the rest use their fingers and old socks

 

[May Kasahara]

You're like the Duchess of St Helens

 

[sojourner]

You're like the Duchess of St Helens

Yes! Yes I am! *preens*


*coughs mucus onto laptop screen*



oh

 

[hiccup]

I serve mine in a gravy jug, so I can just tip it straight into my mouth.

Less washing up that way too.

 

[gentlegreen]

Not spaghetti, but I eat a lot of noodles and I use chopsticks (I eat most things with chopsticks these days).

Usually I wind it up tight, but sometimes I do it the approved, slurpy way.

 

[fractionMan]

people who use a spoon are wrong. I had an argument about this at the weekend with my mum for teaching me the wrong way my entire childhood. (she was trying to get lil fraction to use a spoon as well )

 

[CalmerChameleon]

I cut it up with a knife and fork. It's getting a bit embarrassing now that I still haven't learned how it twirl it, but it would be even more embarrassing to attempt it and splatter myself and my dinner companions with sauce! I'll have to do some practising in private.