I did when I cooked it in a smaller pot. But then I got a 12 quart stock pot and I keep the spaghetti (and other long pastas) intact. The reason why you should not break pasta is that it’s supposed to wrap around your fork.
I went over to friend’s house for dinner when I was about 10. His mother cut up the spaghetti so he could eat it with a spoon, when I spun my pasta he had never seen it done before.
@Forever_Free
Just because your great grandfather’s friend once looked at a photocopy of a photograph of a drawing of a scale model the Colosseum, does not make you an Italian.
@Kropotkin ohfergawdssake Ok, I’ll play your silly little game. If I bought a piece of art, I can do as I like with it and fuck those who don’t like it. ◔_◔
@smudges I’m think there’s laws around to protect culturally significant artifacts. It would really depend on the art you’re buying and destroying.
Give that spaghetti is basically Italy in a food, your breaking spaghetti is a symbolic declaration of war on Italy and an insult to all Italians, except self-hating ones who think nothing of breaking spaghetti into two or more pieces.
And really guys, let’s not forget the serious origins of the long skinny noodles by the Chinese, who, I don’t believe, give a rat’s ass if you break them or not.
@canidmajor “Um… when you’re cooking noodles, it’s bad luck to break them. Because, um in like Asian cultures… noodles represent longevity or long life.”
So maybe be a bit more considerate of that rat’s ass?
If one cannot handle a full strand of spaghetti, perhaps one should adjust to eating canned Chef Boy-Ar-Dee, or better yet, Spaghetti-O’s with the other kids. Leave the grown up eating to the grown-ups.
Well, then, @zenvelo, I stand chastened and corrected. And I will still cook as I cook, and eat as I eat, because, like @smudges, I will not bow to the fascists who try to dictate how I will conduct this intimate activity (cooking and eating) in my own home. :-P