Correct Way To Eat Macaroni

[Khandro]

I love pasta and every type is a different experience, but how should one eat macaroni? it is the most unmanageable of all pastas. I cooked some today 'al dente' and had difficulty even getting it onto the plates, getting two stands on the floor in the process! It's too thick to wrap around your fork like spaghetti, and if you manage to get it into your mouth you cant suck it in easily because of the hole through the centre. If you cut it into small lengths it will not remain on your fork. What would Montalbano do?

[brionon]

Khandro. My wife is Italian. We have a house in Italy. We go there every year-I have never heard of a CORRECT manner of eating. Most Italians couldn't give a damn.

[Khandro]

http://www.ediplomat.com/np/cultural_etiquette/ce_it.htm

[brionon]

Oh well -if it's on the Net it must be right innit !!

[Khandro]

brionon; Really, I'm not wishing to score any points, I was just trying to enquire into the subject. Further study, yes, on the internet, but also a memory search, reminds me that Italians serve their pasta in bowls or plates with a high ridge like our soup plates, this enables spaghetti to be twirled against it with the fork. Where we go wrong maybe is serving pasta on a dinner plate. As for my OP, perhaps they do not prepare macaroni in long lengths like spaghetti at all.