> wrote:
>From the time I was born some 50 years ago, it was called spaghetti.
>My mother made it, we got it in the school cafeteria. we ate it in
>restaurants, and my relatives served it. It was always called
>SPAGHETTI. All of a sudden it seems the name has changed to pasta.
>What the hell is PASTA?

Pasta is what Spaghetti was before American marketing
limited our choices to what was familiar.

>It was not until the other day when I went to the grocery store and
>asked this 20ish looking store employee where to find the spaghetti
>sauce. He looked at me and said "what's that"?

You are so full of it.

>I was shocked and
>felt like telling the idiot to find a different job if he dont know
>what the #$%^ spaghetti sauce is, but I did my best to remain calm and
>say "pasta sauce". He knew right where that was.......
>
>Has the word "spaghetti" been banned for some reason? Is there some
>sort of politically incorrect sexual connotation to that word that
>offends the religious right, or what? Or does it just cost more
>because they now call it pasta?

I think you were had. There's no way that person didn't
recognize "spaghetti". Just not possible.

--Blair