"Damsel" > wrote in message
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> When I was a kid, we got boxes of spaghetti that were about 4 inches
> square
> on the ends, and around 3 feet long. The pasta inside was folded in half,
> so you were talking strands at least 5-1/2 feet long. One or two were all
> that a fork could hold.

I remember the spaghetti folded in half so that they looked like giant U's,
but no box we bought was as long as you describe -- perhaps 12" at most so
the spaghetti that finally made it into the pot unbroken would have been at
most 24" long. Your brand may well have been different.

Gabby