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It's 92cm long!
KB Started conversation Dec 12, 2014
It's 92cm long! Almost 93cm long!
My spaghetti is longer than yours. The logical thing would be to break it into half, or even into thirds, but I want to boil it intact even if it takes the biggest saucepan.
It seems really awful to break it, when I could have infinitely long spaghetti. Well, not infinite, but just under one metre. Which in spaghetti terms might as well be infinity.
*hoiks out the big stew cauldron*
I wish I had some plum tomatoes too. 
There must be a mathematical formula for working out how many fork-twiddles it takes to enfork one strand of metre-long spaghetti.
It's 92cm long!
There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Dec 12, 2014
Three-foot long spaghetti? Where... how... what... 
It's not how long it is it's what you do with it 
It's 92cm long!
KB Posted Dec 12, 2014
You know how you sort of stir it into the boiling water, as the bottom bit softens and you lower it in? I was actually considering standing on a stool to reach the top.
(Then I realised I could just hold it lower down. 
)
It's 92cm long!
There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Dec 12, 2014
So, how come 92cm spaghetti? Curious minds are eager to know.
It's 92cm long!
paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Dec 12, 2014
One strand would be enough to feed a starving family of four!
It's 92cm long!
2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... Posted Dec 12, 2014
it makes me want to get my pasta roller back out.... if I could find it... and make one even longer... 2 meters! one strand of pasta, per person per serving - Don't the Italians have a thing, where having really long strands of pasta is seen as really good or something?; kinda demonstrating how good the housewhife/pasta maker is, at making it? I've a feeling I read something, such, a long long while ago, but no idea where... 
It's 92cm long!
TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office Posted Dec 13, 2014
Please keep us informed about the experience of eating it.
TRiG.
It's 92cm long!
There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Dec 13, 2014
I'm still intrigued by where it comes from and why it's so long.
Ooh no missus, titter ye not 
It's 92cm long!
paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Dec 13, 2014
I imagine the secret has been pasta-round from generation to generation.
It's 92cm long!
KB Posted Dec 13, 2014
It came from an odd little corner supermarket I've never been in before. The sort of place that sells newspapers, meat, stationery, string, vegetables, tennis balls...
I'm not actually sure *why* it's so long, or why I bought it. I had plenty of pasta in the house. I just saw the length of it and something snapped in my head, and I went "Ooooh-la-la! I'm having that! "
It's 92cm long!
You can call me TC Posted Dec 13, 2014
*lurk*
It's really not my place to join in a thread where men are discussing how long it is.
It's 92cm long!
There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Dec 13, 2014
Stationery, string, vegetables...
Are you sure you didn't get one of those three by mistake?
It's 92cm long!
KB Posted Dec 13, 2014
Now that you mention it...
That's reminded me of a Laurel and Hardy film where they drift out to sea on a boat by accident, with a dangerous escaped convict. Stan comes up with the wonderful idea of making him a 'synthetic breakfast' of string spaghetti and oil for coffee. They end up eating it themselves. I'm not sure what they hoped this would do to pacify him!
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- 4: KB (Dec 12, 2014)
- 5: There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho (Dec 12, 2014)
- 6: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (Dec 12, 2014)
- 7: 2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... (Dec 12, 2014)
- 8: TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office (Dec 13, 2014)
- 9: There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho (Dec 13, 2014)
- 10: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (Dec 13, 2014)
- 11: KB (Dec 13, 2014)
- 12: You can call me TC (Dec 13, 2014)
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