"Gabby" > said:

> "Damsel" > wrote in message
> ...
> > 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.

I started thinking after I posted. The boxes were more like 2" in length.
Otherwise, they never would have fit in the cupboard. The boxes were kept
in a lower cabinet, and filled it from front to back. When you're a kid,
everything seems larger than life.

Carol

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