Damsel wrote:

> 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.
>
> We twirled the cooked pasta by holding the tines of our forks against a
> soup spoon and twirling.
>
> I die inside, just a little, when I see someone chop their spaghetti into
> little pieces. Never could get the hang of twirling against the plate.
>
> How do *you* get 'sketti from the plate to your mouth?
>
> Carol
>

Sorry, I'm a chopper but sometimes a twiller. I tend to chop when
eating out and don't want to get my clothes dirty. DH, otoh, is always
a twiller and slurper suck the spaghetti up. If I tried that, it would
be everywhere but my mouth!