A Cone Is the Perfect Way to Eat Spaghetti


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The Spaghetti Incident, a new restaurant in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, has devised an ingenious way to get people to buy its spaghetti. Besides offering several tasty varieties, the restaurant offers its spaghetti for takeout in cones. The result is that people wandering the neighborhood for amusement can grab a cone and a fork and eat it as they stroll. Spaghetti, a food that is normally messy to eat, becomes completely portable by this method. Dave Bry of The Guardian explains:

Eating spaghetti out of a cone is, oddly, easier than eating it from a plate. This is because of the well-known “twirl method” that sophisticated humans have learned to use to eat pasta. The cone shape facilitates the trick by giving natural purchase to the tines of the fork as they twist. The curved sides of the cone help guide the strands of spaghetti into a ball around the fork. (Emily Post recommended using a spoon to achieve the effect). The twirl negates the need for spearing any bit of food with the fork.

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Weird coincidence - my daughter & I read a book last night about the Vulcanosaurus (which I had never heard of until last night) from 1995 and they discussed this very option in the book.
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This is called evolutionary development and utilizes "broom closet" genetics which can be expressed. It wouldn't be so much a dinosaur as a chicken-o-saurus. Thus far, teeth like growths on embryonic chickens has been expressed but has not been allowed to go full term.
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