"Victor Sack" > wrote in message
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> Goomba > wrote:
>
>> Or a lesson on how to twirl it up on a fork like Italians do.
>> No slurping necessary, really.
>
> Ah, but that was not always that way. Cooked pasta, which was called
> macaroni (also spelt maccaruni, maccheroni, etc.), used to be sold in
> the street by maccaronari (spellings differ here, too), being fast food
> of the times. And, like today's fast food, it was eaten with hands.
>
> <http://www.bridgemanart.com/search/view_image2.asp?image_id=179687>
>
> <http://www.storiedinapoli.it/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/maccarunaro.gif>
>
> <http://digilander.libero.it/nerina1/pag7.htm>
>
> <http://www.taccuinistorici.it/ita/news/medioevale/cereali-paste/MACCHERONI-piaceri-nobili-e-plebei.html>
>
> Victor


hahaha, I like you, Victor. Busting up the world of the anal retentive is
such a nice thing to do for the world.