On Aug 29, 5:47 am, Gregory Morrow >
wrote:
> Joseph Littleshoes wrote:
> > 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?
>
> > > I thought I was just over reacting and the word Pasta was just
> > > something used by the ultra-wealthy because they always seem to use a
> > > fancy name for something in order to raise the price, such as calling
> > > coffee, java. Everyone knows that java costs two, three or more times
> > > the price of a cup of coffee, and its the same darn thing.
>
> > > 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"? 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?
>
> > > JB
>
> > Ever hear of the reorient "Spago"? which means string, spaghetti is just
> > the diminutive form of spago.
>
> > Your experience sounds sort of like the one i had at a whole foods store
> > when i asked where they kept the coke and pepsi and i was informed they
> > did not sell "such things."
>
> > It is a form of snobbery, nothing else.
>
> Gotta love the Whole Foods "ethos"...a new one opened up in my 'hood
> and when I asked for a plastic bag the blissninnie checkout droid said
> kiddingly, "Are you SURE...!!!???". I said, "Oh, why should I geel
> guilty about a plastic bag when most every vehicle in your lot is a
> monster SUV driven by ONE yuppie person...". Sheesh...

That was a great "Snappy Answer."
>
> Won't be going to WH very much, lol...

They are very expensive.
>
> --
> Best
> Greg

--Bryan