Today just happens to be National Spaghetti Day. I like spaghetti. It’s not my favourite pasta, but it looks good about now.
We did in the last of the turkey soup just the other day. I like turkey, but after a couple full turkey dinners, a hot sandwich or two and finally the soup, I’m about done with turkey for a while. A turkey could run out in front of me on the way home and I would go though many things to avoid it. Turkeys are safe from me for at least a few more weeks.
We have had a couple other things over the past week or more, just to break up the turkey fest. But I was starting to wonder what might be next on the menu. Turkey had become the go to. Now I see an alternative. Spaghetti.
Pasta has been around for a long time, possibly as far back as 5000 BCE. I’m not sure how long spaghetti itself had been around, but I’m sure people have been spending several centuries just trying to figure out how to eat it. And tomato sauce can only go back as far as the 1500s. That when they were brought back to Europe from the America’s. But eating spaghetti does seem to present a problem to some people.
I know those who cut it into small pieces to make it easier to scoop up. Others may use a spoon to twirl their spaghetti into. Some may even just get it to their mouth and then just slurp up the noodles. Some of these methods get a bit on the dangerous side once you add enough of that tomato sauce and the noodles are flapping all over the place.
While I do use the twirl the spaghetti around the fork method, I don’t use a spoon to do it. Just the plate. Once you get a nice little knot on the fork, it may or may not be safe to transfer the spaghetti to your mouth. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. But it does add a certain sense of adventure to meal time.
And the best part of all… it’s not turkey. Although I suppose you could throw a little in there if you have any left.
