Are there any problems associated with this? I have heard several claims about it, the least unlikely being that it can cause a worm infection.
The only thing I can think of is the use of raw egg in making pasta, but I could be mistaken. Out of curiosity what would be the circumstances under which one would be forced to consume raw pasta?
Many commercial brands of dried pasta only contain enriched flour and (before they were dried) water. Where would the worms be? What kind of worms?
In my case, acute laziness.
Not forced, but some people enjoy it. I used to eat raw dried spaghetti as a kid, I loved crunching and sucking it. That is just flour and water, no egg.
I have a friend who likes the crunch, she eats it as a snack. No ill affects so far.
Are you talking about wheat weevil larvae?
Hard commercial pasta was consumed by all us kids. My one brother was responsible for mother never having spaghetti when she wanted to use it. Nobody got sich from it.
Raw Pasta; for when you run out of fingernails. I find it gives me gas; BAD gas. Cause?
I had a friend when I was a kid who introduced me to raw ramen - crunch up the package, open it, dump some of the seasoning packet in, shake to mix, and eat. It was OK, but I couldn’t ever finish a whole package.
Ramen is not really raw out of the package. The ramen noodles are fried prior to being packaged. This is not the case with things like spaghetti noodles.
My god how lazy are you people that you can’t cook some pasta for pity’s sake?! Please don’t tell me you think it tastes better than cooked pasta!
There really is no hope for humanity, is there?
I can’t resist having a couple of raw Butoni (sp?) raviolis while waiting for the water to boil. My wife continues to tell me how the package plainly says “cook before eating,” but I do find them awful yummy.
No ill effects as of yet.
Until this thread, I didn’t know there were so many others like me. I too have eaten raw pasta on many occasions by choice. I like it. I DOWN RIGHT LIKE IT!
Stands cautiously. Claps build. The chorus starts:
"Ive paid my cents -
Time after time -
Ive sucked my spaghetti
But committed no crime -
And bad mistakes
Ive made a few
Ive had shards kicked in my face -
But Ive come through
We are the champions - my friends
And well keep on chomping - till the end -
We are the champions -
We are the champions
No time for cookers
cause we are the raw pasta champion eaters - of the world -"
Yep. My grandma used to tell me, “Don’t eat raw spaghetti, it’ll give you worms.” This would have been in the 1960s; she was born in 1900. Possibly less-than-pristine manufacturing conditions for mass-produced spaghetti before we had the whole “untouched by human hands” mindset, and various local, state, and federal agencies peering over the shoulders of food producers might have given rise to the “worms” factoid. Pinworm eggs can be spread from an infected person onto objects, so if during the manufacturing process the spaghetti was handled by people with pinworms, then yeah, you could have gotten worms from spaghetti.
Found this.
As noted it was in childhood. We got pop once a week. We got chips and other treats once a week. The pasta was something we could snack on that wasn’t flour or sugar or a raw potato. Are you seeing why we snuck pasta? There wasn’t much in the house that we could eat, when it wasn’t a regular meal time. At meal time you didn’t dawdle, or you were out of luck.
I, too, like it on its own merits. I munch on it all of the time while cooking the rest of the package.
Could there be a danger of the pasta swelling painfully in your stomach, if you ate enough? I once ate a fair portion of undercooked rice (I must have been hungry…) and found myself with pretty bad stomach-ache for a while after.
Semi related post
A cruel practical joke involving raw pasta…
- Tuck a piece of raw pasta (macaroni works well) into your mouth
- Causualy walk into a room holding your victems small pet
- Say something like “I just saw this great internet site on doing chiropractic adjustments on your pets!”
- Pretend to twist the animal’s head (just slide your hand in a rotating motion over the pet’s head)
- Simultaniously bite down on the macaroni, making a wet “CRUNCH!” noise
Look shocked!
Then DUCK!
This macaroni in mouth technique also works well when pretending to “crack own neck, fingers or other body parts”, if you know a person who is squeamish about such things…
Enjoy
FML
Pure evil Full Metal Lotus. I like it.
FTR I am also an eater of raw pasta (the dry kind). Been doing it since I was small and no ill effects so far.