Comments on: Unitasker Wednesday: So you think you know how to eat spaghetti?

By: Inciampando sulle Acque

Inciampando sulle Acque — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:36:21 +0000

Yes, sometimes it’s better to eat with spoon and fork and it’s not a bad manner. When you have (for example) a sauce that is too much liquid, you have to use a spoon and a fork. Tagliolini with broth are usually eaten in this way in osteria or in a famous restaurant.

It’s bad manners to have all your sauce spread on the table cloth. Every country has its own tradition: I don’t say that Japanese, with chopsticks, have “not exacyly good manners”.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:26:40 +0000

I’ve never needed a spoon to eat pasta, either. I’ve never understood why anyone would need to.

By: armando chocano

armando chocano — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 05:24:19 +0000

I am Italian descendant in Peru – S.America, third generation,who remembers father and grandfather never using a spoon to help the fork when eating spaghetti, wondering where and when it started the concept of eating spaghetti with a fork and spoon instead of a fork alone. Is this an Italian peasant’s tradition (not exactly good manners) boosted to popularity in the United States around 20 years ago, or just invented in North America ???

By: Nancy

Nancy — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:06:10 +0000

Wow, they still have those forks? I had one of them as a child about 30 years ago. Loved it though…I was never very good at eating long noodles (and I solve the problem now by eating ziti, shells or rigatoni instead ).

By: Stan

Stan — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:59:32 +0000

The twirling fork immediately reminds me of Gremlins…. I guess I’m getting old.

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:07:37 +0000

Those plates are quite attractive, and need not be limited to unitasking. I can see multiple possibilities for the donut-shaped plate/bowl. Not the fork, though. Never the fork.

By: Italiana

Italiana — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:13:36 +0000

I’m sorry but if you’re really Italian you DO NOT NEED a spoon for eating spaghetti! My Nonna would be spinning in her grave, for goodness sake!

By: Jacki Hollywood Brown

Jacki Hollywood Brown — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:28:29 +0000

As soon as I saw this I thought it would be amazing for someone with arthritis or other impairment that limits mobility….even a temporary cast for a broken arm.

By: M.R.

M.R. — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:57:51 +0000

Shay, you are killing me! I would love to see a 10″ pasta nest/ball slide into someone’s lap…as long as it wasn’t mine.

By: H...

H... — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:29:23 +0000

be careful or you will get tongue-twisted by it.

By: Kirsten

Kirsten — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:46:31 +0000

Both are very interesting inventions, but neither solves the problem of taking up just a bit too much spaghetti to begin with, then ending up with a softball sized pile of pasta all twirled up on your fork.

By: topmate

topmate — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:26:46 +0000

Marvel at the incredible battery powered fork! Wonder at its usefulness when you forget that it spins while mid conversation during your meal and it lacerates your tongue! Cringe at the embarassment during the trip to the emergency room!

Or, more realistically, stop it spinning and watch the spaghetti slide off into your lap.

By: della street

della street — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:18:04 +0000

i like the plate/bowl thingies. but that fork. ai yi yi.

By: Katie

Katie — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:08:37 +0000

A white bowl for eating pasta! The dreaded tomato sauce stripe will ruin it in no time.

By: gigglechick

gigglechick — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:02:17 +0000

@ B — it’s battery powered twirling magic :}

By: B

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:41:40 +0000

My mom could use this. Her hands are deformed from rheumatoid arthritis. I wonder how you make it twirl?

I’ve noticed several of your unitasker items are actually very useful for the handicapped and/or elderly., so I’m glad you provide links.

By: Karen in Wichita

Karen in Wichita — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:34:07 +0000

Heh. There used to be a pasta restaurant in town that had special spoons – larger than even a soup spoon, more of a small serving-spoon size – with a twirling depression in the center. I’m not really sure it worked any better than the natural concavity of the spoon, though. But hey, when you’re a pasta-specific restaurant, I guess you can justify special-purpose utensils.

Or… maybe not. They closed in less than a year, as I recall.

By: gigglechick

gigglechick — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:11:21 +0000

i’m just picturing Mark Walberg and George Clooney sporting Italian accents in a new movie called “The Perfect Fork”

(let’s just say that one of them doesn’t make it in the end after a terrible twirling accident. it’s a real tearjerker.)

By: Tiara

Tiara — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:24:48 +0000

Too funny! My 4-year-old daughter received one of these forks for Christmas. I just found it still in it’s original wrapper while cleaning out her room and I put it in the donations box.

By: Shay

Shay — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:46:50 +0000

Wow, when used together, I think these might create a vortex in the space-time continuum, centered on your spaghetti crater. It might also result in a ball of spaghetti on your fork with a 10″ diameter…which would be AWESOME.