Jeff Bienstadt wrote:
>
> Kate Connally wrote:
<snip>
>
> Using a spoon allows you to more easily adjust the angle of your fork,
> preventing the 'sketti from falling off.
>
> I agree with Damsel; I just could not understand my ex-wife's propensity
> for dragging a knife through her pile of pasta, reducing it to sub-inch
> mini-sketti.
>
> ---jkb
>


But but but I've seen so very many Americans do just that. Perhaps they
grew up on the nasty pasta in tins, which is always short.