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[–] thejoker954 34 points 6 months ago (4 children)

There's an actual fork for spaghetti!?!

Why have I never seen one before? WTF is this conspiracy?

[–] starchylemming 11 points 6 months ago

I've been to many italian establishments and have never seen them. probably just a gimmick nobody knows about

[–] Chip_Rat 5 points 6 months ago

I call BS. Every other fork (even the crab "pick") I can believe it have seen. I do not believe in this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It would be so uncomfortable to use 😬

[–] shneancy 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

it looks like it needs to go to a fork hospital

just use a fork and a spoon for spaghetti like a normal person

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I still think it's weird using a spoon for spaghetti.

I've seen it done. I get why people do it. I still think it's weird.

Whatever. Be weird. So your thing. As long as it gets the food from the plate to your face, who am I to say it's wrong?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't know why people can't just spin their forks and have the spaghetti wrap around? Never seemed like something difficult or requiring extra tools

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I get it, I don't do it with a spoon, but I understand the problem it's trying to solve.

Most forks are curved, so you naturally pick up the pasta so it lands in the concave side, but when you flip it over to start spinning, the pasta slides off the end or down to the handle. So it becomes a shitty game to try to keep the spaghetti on the fork while you twirl it to fit the whole thing in your mouth.

There's a few solutions to this, like spinning the fork against the plate or using a spoon, or a fancy spaghetti fork (like in the OP). I'm sure there's more, that's just what I can think of.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I have never seen this. italians spin their fork in the spoon to wrap the noodles, seems to work fine. That spaghetti fork would have terrible mouth feel.

[–] anyhow2503 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I've never seen an italian eat spaghetti with a spoon, but maybe it varies by region.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Seems like a common thing in North America. I've seen plenty of people use a spoon to hold the tip of their fork to spin it and ball up spaghetti (and similar noodle pasta).

I'm not even Italian, I think it's weird. Far be it for me to tell anyone how to eat though. So I just shut my mouth and eat my spaghetti, my way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

It's a very Italian American thing. It's not really something you'd see in Italy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Could be, an old Italian guy showed me the spoon as the base and fork as the spinning tool. But yeah maybe it is regional...or like giving white people a fork at an asian place