Giusi wrote:

> I do what the Lord intended. I twirl it on a fork with no helpers. The
> spoon thing is for babies and is frowned on at table. The soup bowl is
> the best for pasta, although a tall and narrow bowl is nice for Asian
> pastas sometimes.

....in which case you should use chopsticks to pick up a shaggy comet-shaped
mass of noodles.

I think the question of twirling spaghetti is trivial. What I'd like to know
is, how do you eat *bucatini*? it's too thick to twirl on a normal fork, and
you can't even slurp it because it's hollow.

Bob