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.

Good grief! How did you get them into the pot to
cook them if they were that long? Even folded in half
they'd be too big for any pot I've ever seen.

I've been around over 50 years and I've never come across
spaghetti that was more than about a foot long. Even
foot-long spaghetti is tough to get under the water all
at once, so I can't even begin to see how people would
manage anything longer. I suspect it was meant to be
broken into more manageable lengths when put in the
pot.

Kate