View Single Post
  #10 (permalink)   Report Post  
Posted to rec.food.cooking
James Silverton[_4_] James Silverton[_4_] is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 4,127
Default Why vermicielli rather than spaghetti?

On 9/6/2011 11:55 AM, Kalmia wrote:
> On Sep 6, 11:20 am, James >
> wrote:
>
>
> and picking up spaghetti with a fork is a skill learned when
>> one begins to grow up.
>>

>
>
> Not really. I knew a girl who was getting married and her MIL to be
> insisted on 'small shells' at the [Italian resto] reception, as she
> suspected there would be non-twirlers there and those who wanted easy
> to handle pieces. That's being real considerate of female diners in
> their best clothes - no sauce a-splashin'.
>
> When the waiter asks "ziti or spahetti?", I always go for the ziti -
> for the splash factor.
>
>

Spaghetti at a wedding? Perhaps in an impoverished region of Sicily.

--


James Silverton, Potomac

I'm *not*