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In article .com>,
says...
> Blair P. Houghton wrote:
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> > Pasta is what Spaghetti was before American marketing
> > limited our choices to what was familiar.
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> "Wednesday Is Prince Spaghetti Day"...
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> IIRC some of this started during WWII when meat was rationed,
> spaghetti was promoted as a "meatless" alternative...along with
> macaroni.
>
> I collect old magazines and there are ads in say, WWII era _Life_
> magazines that push this. To a lot of middle Americans, spaghetti
> (let alone pasta) was something a little bit exotic, there was a big
> push by marketers to make it "acceptable". In movies of the day,
> Italian restaurants were often featured as something slightly exotic
> and urbane, replete with the checked tablecloths, spaghetti and meat
> balls, and the straw chianti bottle on the table...
>
> I have _Life_, etc. mags from the mid - 50's when modern
> "convenience" - type foods became the rage. There are these HUGE - ass
> color double - page spreads by Chef Boyardee and the like promoting
> "Ravioli -- now in a CAN...!!!". It's presented like some kind of
> space age miracle...pretty interesting, that age of Madison Avenue
> overkill.

I hope you have a scanner because those sound like something I'd like to
see. I love seeing how things were back then since I missed all of it.
I'm a child of the 70's and 80's.