On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 15:53:29 -0500, Damsel wrote:

> Same thing happens to me when I try to twirl against the plate. Even
> though I'm over on the side, strands from the main group keep jumping into
> the fork and making a pasta tennis ball.

I capture a few strands with the fork tines and twirl away from the
mass. If other strands try to join the party, I lift the fork a bit
and continue to twirl.

I refuse to order spaghetti when eating "out" because spaghetti is too
"fat" to twirl w/o splattering sauce all over my clothes and you can
never get the last inch or so of the strands to cooperate anyway.
Capellini/vermicelli/thin spaghetti is okay. Linguini is okay too...
but I refuse to fight with regular fat spaghetti noodles in public -
in fact I don't buy it to make at home (now that I think about this).