James Silverton wrote:
> On 7/17/2011 10:41 AM, Jerry Avins wrote:
>> On Jul 17, 3:25 am, > wrote:
>>> "Jerry > ha scritto nel messaggio
>>>
>>>> I twirl spaghetti on a fork. If it's heaped on a plate, a tablespoon
>>>> makes a convenient support while twirling. If it's in a bowl, as I
>>>> prefer it, the curve of the side of the bowl is all the support
>>>> needed. Some people cut long pasta into short pieces before taking it
>>>> up on a fork. A few cooks break it into short pieces before cooking
>>>> it. What do you do?
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> I'm glad you spoke up. My born-in-Italy friends tell me that spoons
>> are used there by young children and maladroit foreigners. We wonder
>> why even the most pretentious Italian restaurants here serve them to
>> everyone. I once saw a battery-operated spaghetti-twirling fork in a
>> novelty store. I wonder, would it be possible to eat with one? (They
>> also had dribble cups.)
>>
>> Some flatware sets have small round handles. Twirling is nearly
>> impossible with those forks.
>>
>
> By the way, chop sticks are fine implements for eating spaghetti. Even
> the Thais, whose normal implements are a spoon and a fork, use them for
> noodles. I've said it before and I'll say it again; why did Marco Polo
> not bring chopsticks back with him as well as spaghetti?
>
I have had the same thought and mused at my daughter about it
sometime within the last week.

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Jean B.