nadiarosina wrote:

> Wind the spaghetti around your chopsticks, of course. Noodles came from
> China originally.
> Nadia

Sorry. No. That old story is simply not true.

Here's way more than most people want to know about pasta history.
<http://www.cliffordawright.com/history/macaroni.html>

Pastorio

> 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
>>
>>--
>>Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon
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