twirling spagetti against the spoon...
john
Is this "proper" or psuedo-pretentious ala tea cup pinkie?
Anybody observed spagetti consumption across the Italian class strata?
John
Michael Sierchio
> spoon was supplied for amateurs! :-0
It's for children.
Robert Lauriston
>
> sigh...okay so what do the ba.foodies say.
>
> Is this "proper" or psuedo-pretentious ala tea cup pinkie?
>
> Anybody observed spagetti consumption across the Italian class strata?
I don't think most restaurants in Italy even provide spoons unless you
order soup or some other dish that requires one.
Carlo Milono
Frayed wrote:
>
> In article <367a52e2...@news.earthlink.net>,
> john...@nospams.earthlink.net (john) wrote:
>
> >sigh...okay so what do the ba.foodies say.
> >
> >Is this "proper" or psuedo-pretentious ala tea cup pinkie?
> >
> >Anybody observed spagetti consumption across the Italian class strata?
> >
> >John
> >
>
> I am first generation Italian-American and nobody in my family did/does
> it.
> Karen
>
Ditto. Never was even considered. We only saw it in the movies.
> http://pw2.netcom.com/~frayed/KarenI.htm
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Frayed
>sigh...okay so what do the ba.foodies say.
>
>Is this "proper" or psuedo-pretentious ala tea cup pinkie?
>
>Anybody observed spagetti consumption across the Italian class strata?
>
>John
>
I am first generation Italian-American and nobody in my family did/does
it.
Karen
Len Freedman
: sigh...okay so what do the ba.foodies say.
: Is this "proper" or psuedo-pretentious ala tea cup pinkie?
: Anybody observed spagetti consumption across the Italian class strata?
: John
They used to make special silverware for this. The spook had a hole
in the middle and on the fork the two tines in the middle were longer,
so you could stick them through the hole in the spoon.
(Now that I think of it, I saw a battery-operated motorized fork
somewhere! But that was just a joke, I'm pretty sure.)
Hipsters
>>(Now that I think of it, I saw a battery-operated motorized fork
somewhere! But that was just a joke, I'm pretty sure.)<<
Good stocking stuffer gift idea!!
Where does one buy these?
Karen
i...@svpal.org
Gee, I've always had a warm place in my heart for those
thermo-nuclear chopstick thingies from Hitch-Hiker's Guide...
Seriously though if one grows up eating pasta every day
ones dexterity with a fork should be sufficient to deal
with all sorts from angel hair to ziti.
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David Hinds
: john wrote:
: >
: > sigh...okay so what do the ba.foodies say.
: >
: > Is this "proper" or psuedo-pretentious ala tea cup pinkie?
: >
: > Anybody observed spagetti consumption across the Italian class strata?
:
: order soup or some other dish that requires one.
Can't comment on "most" or what is typical, but I do remember getting
pasta with the spoon at one restaurant in Italy: it was a nice but not
really fancy or expensive place.
-- Dave Hinds
Mike DiNucci
able to eat pasta without using a twirling-spoon, my
grandfather practically shed tears of joy that I was
able to master this skill.
He was very proud that I learned, at a young age, how
to eat spaghetti without the spoon.
Hope that helps.
Mike
john wrote:
>
> sigh...okay so what do the ba.foodies say.
>
> Is this "proper" or psuedo-pretentious ala tea cup pinkie?
>
> Anybody observed spagetti consumption across the Italian class strata?
>
> John
Greg
could master it myself.
Greg
Pete Fraser
>Is this old American custom still around? I never
>could master it myself.
>
Dis you forget to smear the honey on the knife first?
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Pilgrim
pfr...@dnai.com (Pete Fraser) wrote:
Good grief! You bring back memories from scout camp:
I eat my peas with honey; I've done it all my life.
They do taste rather funny, but it keeps them on the knife.
With apologies......
Pilgrim
mulders_notpairnoid_nuff
I like to roll as much pasta with the fork using the spoon as the
support, then I try to see if I can cram the massive amount of pasta
into my mouth without getting the sauce on my chin. If I do, I use the
spoon to kind of "scoop" it up off of my chin and into my mouth. Of
course I do this in the privacy of home as I'm presuming this behavior
in public would be faux pas....
*That's what's great about the internet is that one can make a
confessional of such unacceptable behavior without the resulting stigma!
Steve Fenwick
"In the civilized world, which includes the United States and Italy, it is
incorrect to eat spaghetti with a spoon. The definition of 'civilized' is
a society that does not consider it correct to eat spaghetti with a
spoon."
(from _Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior_, p.164.)
The full replies are much more humorous, but this reflects the gist of her
reply.
Steve
In article <367a52e2...@news.earthlink.net>,
john...@nospams.earthlink.net (john) wrote:
> sigh...okay so what do the ba.foodies say.
>
> Is this "proper" or psuedo-pretentious ala tea cup pinkie?
>
> Anybody observed spagetti consumption across the Italian class strata?
>
> John
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