# Did the Romans Eat Spaghetti ?

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**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [September 23, 2002, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-romans-eat-spaghetti/129354 "2002-09-23T22:42:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 23, 2002, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-romans-eat-spaghetti/129354/1 "2002-09-23T22:42:05Z")

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I refer to Cecil’s column [http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1\_102.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_102.html) which had a throw-away line about the Romans of Claudius’s time eating pasta.

I thought spaghetti wasn’t seriously taken up by the Romans until about 1000 years ago? Either by getting the idea from the Chinese or a parallel evolution at home?

Reading Tacitus I only see references to bread, not pasta.