• ALQ@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Follow up pro tip: only do this if you want war with Italy. Every time someone breaks a spaghetto, an Italian person dies.

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      6 months ago

      My favorite grocery store sells “pot-ready spaghetti noodles” which are half the length of normal ones. I think Italy’s declaration of war is a foregone conclusion at this point

      • Agent641@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        I mean, who decided that spaghetti noodles had to be that long anyway? What if I go to Italy and start selling spaghetti noodles that are 2m long? When will they admit that its fin to snappa the spaghetta?

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          6 months ago

          It’s harder to pick up broken or shorter spaghetti with a fork. If you break them up real small and make chicken noodle soup that you eat with a spoon - that’s fine. Italians do that as well.

      • skulkingaround@sh.itjust.works
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        6 months ago

        Protip, you can cook regular spaghetti noodles in a big pan. You only need enough water to cover the noodles and it’s way faster than boiling a lake’s worth of water in a pot and doing the whole “try to fold the pasta into the water as fast as possible so it cooks evenly” dance.

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          6 months ago

          You can leave them full length with only a third of the length in the water, they quickly soften and slump and the rest can be immersed

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        6 months ago

        Did you know they don’t eat garlic bread in Italy?

        Ergo, “Italian Food” in America is better than food in Italy. They have to take us out as a matter of self defense

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      6 months ago

      My wife showed me the Instagram page of an American woman who was married to an Italian guy. She would fuck with him for content. The one where she breaks spaghetti in half before throwing it into the water is hilarious, he flips his shit

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    6 months ago

    If you ever find yourself in a war against Italy, breaking a bundle of spaghetti will send out a shockwave which causes any Italian in a 3 km radius to fall into cardiac arrest.

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      6 months ago

      It will only kill 99.9% of italians. The survivors, if there are any, will be alerted and rapidly approach your position. At this point, suicide will be the only way out

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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    6 months ago

    This just makes me think the soldier isn’t intending to shoot anyone anyway, say if he’s more sympathetic to the local civilians than his political masters.

    And if I recall correctly, American troopers often made more friends with chocolate and beanie babies than with bullets.