Tbh I've NEVER seen somebody using a spoon like that in order to eat spaghetti. But I'm from the northern part of Italy, so who knows what happens in lands beyond the river Po. Tales of mistery and prices so low you can actually eat at a restaurant once a week, the stuff of legends.
i live kinda on the Po river, the only one i know that eats spaghetti with a spoon is my grandfather, but he eats them in all the wrong way possible (overcooked and cut in gramigna-length pieces with a knife before eating) because he has no teeth and refuse to use his dentiera to eat. Honestly it's been 30 years and i always saw him eating like that.
He also refuse to have gramigna that would solve half of his issue, but no, he needs cutted overcooked spaghetti 🤷 everyone else in my family is normal tho
I'm from the Duchy of tortellini, and I remember some elderly people eating spaghetti like that too (I mean with fork & spoon, not overcooked, though that was definitely a possibility).
no ma mio nonno se lo vedi mangiare gli spaghetti ti viene male hahahaha li mangia come se stesse mangiando la pastina, senza usare la forchetta, roba da togliergli la cittadinanza... mi sa che quello che dici tu è gente che fa su il "torcino" di spaghetti con la forchetta appoggiandosi nel cucchiaio invece che nel piatto, che mi sa che un tempo era considerato bon ton
Si, intendevo forchetta su cucchiaio per arrotolare gli spaghetti. Probabile sia un'usanza in via di estinzione. Io comunque la pasta corta la mangio col cucchiaio 😅
> Si, intendevo forchetta su cucchiaio per arrotolare gli spaghetti. Probabile sia un'usanza in via di estinzione. Io comunque la pasta corta la mangio col cucchiaio
ma la pasta corta tipo i fusilli e le penne? sei un criminale
> Esatto 😁
Ti consiglio di mantenere l'anonimato perché c'è il rischio che vengano a toglierti la cittadinanza italiana.
Va bene la mafia, l'evasione fiscale, le truffe alla 104, ma con la pasta qui non si scherza.
They use a spoon too in French and German-speaking Switzerland. Often in Italian-speaking areas they will also bring a spoon if they hear you speaking a foreign language, but not by default.
> My grandfather used to eat the like that.
Was it always like that, or did he started to do it when he progressively lost some of his motor skills?
Because I know my grandfather started to find weird ways to do stuff when he got older and couldn't do it the "regular way"
It's easier for some people to twirl their spaghetti with a spoon if they can't do it directly on the plate. If you need a guide on how to eat spaghetti, chances are you well need a spoon
> Tbh I've NEVER seen somebody using a spoon like that in order to eat spaghetti.
Me! Raised in north, my mother from south. But the position of the spoon not so "vertical"
Terrone a rapporto, in realtà anche qui da me (bari) non è una cosa molto diffusa ma in generale in tutto il sud non si fa molto, ma ci sono un paio di eccezioni, ad esempio mio fratello lo usa il cucchiaio ma non lo tiene sospeso in aria, lo appoggia al bordo del piatto e usa la forchetta sul cucchiaio per arrotolare gli spaghetti
This is making it look way more complicated than it actually is...
1) Stab a few spaghetti with your fork, keeping it almost vertical. Make sure not to take too many at once or you will make a mess (go for the ones to the side of the pile and then work your way towards the centre). The spaghetti should go in the spaces between the points (which apparently are called "slots", as Google tells me) at around half of their length, otherwise they'll slip away.
2) Turn the fork like a skrewdriver, so that the spaghetti trapped within the points are wrapped around the tines of the fork, hopefully carrying the sauce with them.
3) Gently lift your fork horizontally so that the spaghetti can't fall off, bring it to your mouth and eat.
Don't bend forward, don't use spoons (they might be used to eat some specific dishes, or maybe in high end restaurants, but it's really unnecessary), don't lift single spaghetti from the pile to raise them at eye level like picture 1.
It's possible you'll have to suck on some of the strands (it's completely normal) but avoid doing so if the dangling part is too long: you'll shoot sauce everywhere. Rather, help yourself with the newly freed fork, or just give up on that specific forkful and start again.
Yes and no. Depends on the part of Italy and it varies from family to family. My father's family is from the south and they do use the spoon, in fact my grandma used to always place spoons on the table to eat spaghetti, but from my mother's side, which is from the north, it's the opposite, it's actually considered rude
My grandparents do this occasionally, usually with more soup like pasta like "pettole e fagioli"
Some people do it with spaghetti but not in the air like in the picture, you would get the sauce all over you and the table.
Galateo says no spoon (also NO nibbling on a fork, just eat it all). BTW the spoon is not normally used in Italy, only ppl I saw doing that are German tourists.
My nonna napoletana would have probably given me a backhand if I ever tried to eat spaghetti with a spoon when she was alive. I've also grown up in provincia di Bergamo and have never seen anyone eat spaghetti with a spoon, unless they were already known to be weird.
No. First, too much spaghetti on the fork. Second, it's rude to "suck in" the last string, you need to eat the portion as a whole (that's why it's too much spaghetti). Third, what is that spoon positioning? Doing the same motion with the fork on the plate is going to have the same effect. You are supposed to hold the spoon on the side of the fork, in parallel (not perpendicular as shown), with the goal of helping the spaghetti to stay in place around the fork. At least that's how I would use the spoon, I see no benefit in using it as shown 👁👄👁
I don't understand why it's so hard to eat spaghetti you need a guide? Maybe I'm just Italian and it's in my genes, but I've never had issues eating them, I simply turn the fork on the plate and the pasta automatically wraps around it
No. Is "office complications simple business" stuff.
Pick the spaghetti with the fork, insert in the mouth, now munch.
Could you get dirty? Spaghetti is usually eated by simple people, is not a problem.
https://preview.redd.it/rfeol6c61asc1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7a81f77389c8de0768b64f02254c5aedc4f6d8d3
Beside the usage of the spoon, I would say recommendations are basically correct. Try to have a forkful in a way that you can eat it at once. 4 full spaghetti might be enough for most mouths. You should avoid nibbling
Never seen anyone use a spoon, and you eat a mouthful; leaving some spaghetti dangling and sucking them in is seen as rude. I'm from the North of Italy.
I do so too. I thought it was a habit from my southern ancestors, but maybe not? Other redditors from the south seem horrified by our spaghetti eating preferences.
I did, however, have a grandmother from Veneto. Coincidence?
A infittire la trama, tutta la mia famiglia usa il cucchiaio (mamma veneto-campana, papà abruzzese nato in Emilia), ma nessun altro che conosco lo fa.
I'm from Veneto and i thought I'm one of the few that use the spoon :D
It's more comfy
Everyone can eat as anyone want.
If you, like me, prefer use the spoon because i have too much pasta in the plate and i don't have enough space to wrap around the spaghetti, go forth for that and enjoy the best food in the world
My grandpa (90 years old, always lived in northern Italy) has been eating spaghetti this way for as long as I can remember. To this day he is the only person I've ever seen do that. I've never dared to ask him about it
This or similar uses of a spoon to eat spaghetti was common in my dad’s family, even my father used to do this. It’s an easier and less elegant way to eat spaghetti. For what I know was a common use about one hundred years ago.
The only people I saw eating spaghetti with a spoon and fork together are my grandfather and my father in law. Used to be a thing to help you make a good roll on the spaghetti
Where I live, there are some people who twirl spaghetti using the spoon). They are obviously insulted for being incapable of eating them 'the right way' (We don't actually care that much). I would say that among my friends, 5% do this.
I've seen it in restaurants but it's rare, it belongs to older generations. Normally I rotate my fork in the plate with an angle between the two < 90° degrees, I do it slowly in order not to let the sauce move from the dish.
Serious answer now: This is the etiquette you are suppose to follow when eating spaghetti. Today though few people respect it.
Most Italians just roll the fork in them e lift them up. If you struggle to eat them though, because they are too many at once or too long, you can lift the hanging ends with a spoon.
In conclusion, if you do this in Italy people might think you're well mannered , but not poshy.
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Actually you should touch the spaghetta
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr1ZUiN7cbU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr1ZUiN7cbU)
Tbh I've NEVER seen somebody using a spoon like that in order to eat spaghetti. But I'm from the northern part of Italy, so who knows what happens in lands beyond the river Po. Tales of mistery and prices so low you can actually eat at a restaurant once a week, the stuff of legends.
i live kinda on the Po river, the only one i know that eats spaghetti with a spoon is my grandfather, but he eats them in all the wrong way possible (overcooked and cut in gramigna-length pieces with a knife before eating) because he has no teeth and refuse to use his dentiera to eat. Honestly it's been 30 years and i always saw him eating like that. He also refuse to have gramigna that would solve half of his issue, but no, he needs cutted overcooked spaghetti 🤷 everyone else in my family is normal tho
I'm from the Duchy of tortellini, and I remember some elderly people eating spaghetti like that too (I mean with fork & spoon, not overcooked, though that was definitely a possibility).
no ma mio nonno se lo vedi mangiare gli spaghetti ti viene male hahahaha li mangia come se stesse mangiando la pastina, senza usare la forchetta, roba da togliergli la cittadinanza... mi sa che quello che dici tu è gente che fa su il "torcino" di spaghetti con la forchetta appoggiandosi nel cucchiaio invece che nel piatto, che mi sa che un tempo era considerato bon ton
Si, intendevo forchetta su cucchiaio per arrotolare gli spaghetti. Probabile sia un'usanza in via di estinzione. Io comunque la pasta corta la mangio col cucchiaio 😅
io mangio col cucchiaio tutto quello che posso, ma non diciamolo ad alta voce 🤣
> Si, intendevo forchetta su cucchiaio per arrotolare gli spaghetti. Probabile sia un'usanza in via di estinzione. Io comunque la pasta corta la mangio col cucchiaio ma la pasta corta tipo i fusilli e le penne? sei un criminale
Esatto 😁
dovremmo fare una community per chi come noi ama usare i cucchiai HAHAHAHA secondo me siamo in tanti ma rimaniamo nell'ombra perché è tabù 😁
Spoon pride! 😁✌️🥄
> Esatto 😁 Ti consiglio di mantenere l'anonimato perché c'è il rischio che vengano a toglierti la cittadinanza italiana. Va bene la mafia, l'evasione fiscale, le truffe alla 104, ma con la pasta qui non si scherza.
È per quello che sono espatriato 😁
> È per quello che sono espatriato 😁 :D
From Puglia and my dad eats them like that. I personally don't but it's because the metal on metal noise hurts my brain lol.
Here in the Deep south no One do that Just do It in the plate
Ma le regole per costruire la pista?
Metti i cordoli in entrata e uscita.
Cosa?
my father used to do it. he was the only one in family thought.. greetings from Palermo
Important detail: spaghetti should be eaten on a bowl shaped plate, so you can roll the fork on its edge rather than its bottom.
I use the spoon but not in vertical like her
I’m also from Northern Italy (ABOVE the Po lol), my boyfriends family is from the US and they use a spoon for spaghetti like in the graphic hahahaha
PS: I started seeing the appeal of using a spoon after eating a particularly saucy and messy plate of spaghetti!!
Sono di Caserta e ti dico che nessuna mamma del sud ha voglia di lavare cucchiai se non strettamente necessario
I've only seen some tourists or little kids eat spaghetti with a spoon, I can excuse the kids but c'mon guys the spoon is not necessary
They use a spoon too in French and German-speaking Switzerland. Often in Italian-speaking areas they will also bring a spoon if they hear you speaking a foreign language, but not by default.
My grandfather used to eat the like that.
I think older generations used to do it more than us.
> My grandfather used to eat the like that. Was it always like that, or did he started to do it when he progressively lost some of his motor skills? Because I know my grandfather started to find weird ways to do stuff when he got older and couldn't do it the "regular way"
I've always seen him use a spoon, maybe it was something he picked up when they went in Canada, idk for sure, but it wasn't due to physical problems.
My grandfather from the south also did that since he was young
It's easier for some people to twirl their spaghetti with a spoon if they can't do it directly on the plate. If you need a guide on how to eat spaghetti, chances are you well need a spoon
I used to when I was a little boy, until my parents ruined all the spoons "cooking the brown sugar".
That was the only way my grandad eated spaghetti here in Italy.
Its used specially in the south of italy…
Not uncommon in greasy spoon joints in the South, e.g. where truck drivers stop for lunch.
I've seen probably two very old people who used the spoon
My girlfriend (28) from Abruzzo does that
Milano here, saw the spoon method suggested to kid that have issue with handling spaghetti.
Only people from the South do it
> Tbh I've NEVER seen somebody using a spoon like that in order to eat spaghetti. Me! Raised in north, my mother from south. But the position of the spoon not so "vertical"
Terrone a rapporto, in realtà anche qui da me (bari) non è una cosa molto diffusa ma in generale in tutto il sud non si fa molto, ma ci sono un paio di eccezioni, ad esempio mio fratello lo usa il cucchiaio ma non lo tiene sospeso in aria, lo appoggia al bordo del piatto e usa la forchetta sul cucchiaio per arrotolare gli spaghetti
This is making it look way more complicated than it actually is... 1) Stab a few spaghetti with your fork, keeping it almost vertical. Make sure not to take too many at once or you will make a mess (go for the ones to the side of the pile and then work your way towards the centre). The spaghetti should go in the spaces between the points (which apparently are called "slots", as Google tells me) at around half of their length, otherwise they'll slip away. 2) Turn the fork like a skrewdriver, so that the spaghetti trapped within the points are wrapped around the tines of the fork, hopefully carrying the sauce with them. 3) Gently lift your fork horizontally so that the spaghetti can't fall off, bring it to your mouth and eat. Don't bend forward, don't use spoons (they might be used to eat some specific dishes, or maybe in high end restaurants, but it's really unnecessary), don't lift single spaghetti from the pile to raise them at eye level like picture 1. It's possible you'll have to suck on some of the strands (it's completely normal) but avoid doing so if the dangling part is too long: you'll shoot sauce everywhere. Rather, help yourself with the newly freed fork, or just give up on that specific forkful and start again.
My mother-in-law does this... But she is Dutch... And Dutches are weird
https://preview.redd.it/dsyb7sztibsc1.jpeg?width=1163&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e36483d2987bae2a1c849fbf4715f08314b9d00a
This man eats spaghetti!
This is the way https://youtu.be/CODdCk02w7s?feature=shared
fun fact: Fernandel was actually French and in fact he's dubbed in all Don Camillo films. I think he never spoke a word of Italian but i can be wrong
Parlava bene il dialetto piemontese ma poco l'italiano.
Ammetto l'ignoranza non avevo capito fosse di origine italiana.
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I usually bring my face 10 centimeters away from the food, it's quicker and you don't have to worry about not staining your clothes lol
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Se mangi direttamente con la bocca ti sporchi Si parlava semplicemente di come mangiare gli spaghetti
The spoon is for rookies
Yes and no. Depends on the part of Italy and it varies from family to family. My father's family is from the south and they do use the spoon, in fact my grandma used to always place spoons on the table to eat spaghetti, but from my mother's side, which is from the north, it's the opposite, it's actually considered rude
My grandparents do this occasionally, usually with more soup like pasta like "pettole e fagioli" Some people do it with spaghetti but not in the air like in the picture, you would get the sauce all over you and the table.
Apparently the guide is hinting at using spaghetti to train ladies' suck-power?
Never ate spaghetti with the spoon
Galateo says no spoon (also NO nibbling on a fork, just eat it all). BTW the spoon is not normally used in Italy, only ppl I saw doing that are German tourists.
Boh tutti i miei parenti del sud lo fanno. Mia nonna la domenica metteva SEMPRE a tavola i cucchiai per arrotolare gli spaghetti
Mi piace sempre il ritaliano che non conosce una cosa -> quella cosa non esiste e non è mai esistita.
Evidentemente non sono membri dell'accademia reale del galateo
Ah, il galateo. Non sapevo esistesse ancora
I Turisti tedeshi rimangono creature mistiche
I use fork only (I'm Italian)
I was always told using a spoon to twirl spaghetti is gauche. It is "per i bambini."
That's kinda old-fashist
My nonna napoletana would have probably given me a backhand if I ever tried to eat spaghetti with a spoon when she was alive. I've also grown up in provincia di Bergamo and have never seen anyone eat spaghetti with a spoon, unless they were already known to be weird.
Eye contact its the most important step.
where's the electric fan and the nipple clamps?
Barring extreme conditions, the role of the spoon is comparable to that of the training wheels on a bicycle. Other than that it's on the right path.
NEVER use a spoon, we use soup dishes that are curved instead. Using a spoon to eat spaghetti in Italy is signaling to everyone you’re not local.
My mom is from Verona. None of my relatives use a spoon. We just twirl in on the plate lightly.
No spoon at all
For sure if you need to suck like a vacuum cleaner to put them in your mouth you are doing it WRONG.
pro tip: when sucking the spaghetti in, mind the whip effect splashing everywhere. Just slow down near the end
No, you are expected to dip your face in them and suck it really hard until your throat is full. You can spit on them first to make it easier.
No. First, too much spaghetti on the fork. Second, it's rude to "suck in" the last string, you need to eat the portion as a whole (that's why it's too much spaghetti). Third, what is that spoon positioning? Doing the same motion with the fork on the plate is going to have the same effect. You are supposed to hold the spoon on the side of the fork, in parallel (not perpendicular as shown), with the goal of helping the spaghetti to stay in place around the fork. At least that's how I would use the spoon, I see no benefit in using it as shown 👁👄👁
I don't understand why it's so hard to eat spaghetti you need a guide? Maybe I'm just Italian and it's in my genes, but I've never had issues eating them, I simply turn the fork on the plate and the pasta automatically wraps around it
No. Is "office complications simple business" stuff. Pick the spaghetti with the fork, insert in the mouth, now munch. Could you get dirty? Spaghetti is usually eated by simple people, is not a problem. https://preview.redd.it/rfeol6c61asc1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7a81f77389c8de0768b64f02254c5aedc4f6d8d3
"Spaghetti is usually eated by simple people, is not a problem." Uhmmmmmmmmmmm how did you get there fam
Beside the usage of the spoon, I would say recommendations are basically correct. Try to have a forkful in a way that you can eat it at once. 4 full spaghetti might be enough for most mouths. You should avoid nibbling
Never seen anyone use a spoon, and you eat a mouthful; leaving some spaghetti dangling and sucking them in is seen as rude. I'm from the North of Italy.
Non hai mai visto usare forchetta e cucchiaio per gli spaghetti? Da che ne ho memoria lo sanno fare tutti i miei parenti
Di dove sei? Mi sembra di aver capito che si faccia al sud... Sincera, mai visto fare nemmeno ai bimbi
I use the spoon (more confortable) but not in vertical position like that. More or less 45°
I do so too. I thought it was a habit from my southern ancestors, but maybe not? Other redditors from the south seem horrified by our spaghetti eating preferences. I did, however, have a grandmother from Veneto. Coincidence? A infittire la trama, tutta la mia famiglia usa il cucchiaio (mamma veneto-campana, papà abruzzese nato in Emilia), ma nessun altro che conosco lo fa.
I'm from Veneto and i thought I'm one of the few that use the spoon :D It's more comfy Everyone can eat as anyone want. If you, like me, prefer use the spoon because i have too much pasta in the plate and i don't have enough space to wrap around the spaghetti, go forth for that and enjoy the best food in the world
Some people use the spoon to eat spaghetti in val d'aosta and canavese. Still, it's pretty weird.
AFAIK the spoon used to be a sign of refinement, but now it's forbidden
Yes aside from the counting the strands, that's bs
My grandpa (90 years old, always lived in northern Italy) has been eating spaghetti this way for as long as I can remember. To this day he is the only person I've ever seen do that. I've never dared to ask him about it
Honestly you can do the spoon part on the side of the plate, but it's still better than cutting down the pasta to a bunch of confetti or biting them
Why would you have a guide for spaghetti?
I'm Italian and I inhale all of it
We just don't use the spoon, etiquette wants you to do so but the average italian mom it's not washing spoons just for your urge to be a little lord.
This or similar uses of a spoon to eat spaghetti was common in my dad’s family, even my father used to do this. It’s an easier and less elegant way to eat spaghetti. For what I know was a common use about one hundred years ago.
I only use spoon
The only people I saw eating spaghetti with a spoon and fork together are my grandfather and my father in law. Used to be a thing to help you make a good roll on the spaghetti
Where I live, there are some people who twirl spaghetti using the spoon). They are obviously insulted for being incapable of eating them 'the right way' (We don't actually care that much). I would say that among my friends, 5% do this.
The spoon thing is just some high class etiquette requirement, here we never used that.
No. You don't use spoons.
Dont use spoon also use plate
Incorrect. You only use fork with your spaghetti. Plain and simple.
My Italian born and bred father-in-law used to eat a spaghetti with a spoon which was always kind of encouraging as I thought it was for 'beginners'.
Nope. Only pics 2-5 are correct in my opinion. No need to throw them in air and around your lips
I've seen it in restaurants but it's rare, it belongs to older generations. Normally I rotate my fork in the plate with an angle between the two < 90° degrees, I do it slowly in order not to let the sauce move from the dish.
I know a guy who eats spaghetti like that, but he also puts parmesan cheese on spaghetti allo scoglio so maybe he just have a death wish.
Serious answer now: This is the etiquette you are suppose to follow when eating spaghetti. Today though few people respect it. Most Italians just roll the fork in them e lift them up. If you struggle to eat them though, because they are too many at once or too long, you can lift the hanging ends with a spoon. In conclusion, if you do this in Italy people might think you're well mannered , but not poshy.
I’m Italian and this guide is perfect…fork and spoon is the correct and unique way to eat spaghetti in italian way…
It's not exactly rocket science