# Grownup SpaghettiOs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 3, 2016, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grownup-spaghettios/761644 "2016-08-03T16:06:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grownup-spaghettios/761644/21 "2016-08-04T06:27:32Z")
Yeah, I keep S’Os with meatballs on hand. I’ll spice/season them up some, that’s all. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grownup-spaghettios/761644/22 "2016-08-04T07:05:44Z")
Eh, Spaghettio’s aren’t exactly _al dente_. I’ll stick with the few extra minutes it takes to make actual, y’know, pasta. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grownup-spaghettios/761644/23 "2016-08-04T09:29:00Z")
They’re great in a toasty-cheese sandwich. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grownup-spaghettios/761644/24 "2016-08-04T20:43:03Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > Remember Scrambled Eggs Super? 🙂 Can’t say I’ve ever heard the phrase. Just Googled it: hm! No, I’d never seen that one when I was a little’un or ever since. I like the phrase “Scrambled Egg Super Dee Dooper Dee Booper Special Deluxe a la Peter T. Hooper.” Ostrich eggs are on my bucket list too! ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grownup-spaghettios/761644/25 "2016-08-04T20:50:30Z")
I always liked to read the books in my second-grade classroom. That was one of them. That book included the lines: \*I only took eggs from the very best fowls. I didn’t take eggs from the twiddler owls. 'Cause the whites of the eggs of those fellows who twiddle Taste sort of like dust from inside a bass fiddle. \* I often told my parents about what was in the books I read in school. After I came home one day and quoted those lines to my Dad, he thought they were so strange that right away he told my Mom about them. ---
**Author:** ![SUZ\_MAC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e8cbc/32.png) [@SUZ\_MAC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SUZ_MAC)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grownup-spaghettios/761644/26 "2016-08-04T22:29:27Z")
I enjoy some boy-ar-dee every once in awhile. I had the spaghetti & meatballs just last week because I forgot my lunch and I had a can in my desk drawer. The nostalgia is what keeps me from having any desire to “doctor” them up. I like them just the way they are. Just not as a staple. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grownup-spaghettios/761644/27 "2016-08-04T23:08:37Z")
I like my fresh veggies sautéed I do. But with my meatloaf and mashed potatoes, it must be canned green beans. I do not like fresh green beans, ever. I can heat a can of green beans and just eat them as a meal. Its the only canned veggie I eat. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grownup-spaghettios/761644/28 "2016-08-04T23:16:11Z")
There’s a local diner where we eat often that serves rosamarina soup (basically tomato soup with orzo pasta). The servers describe it as “adult spaghetti-os”. ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grownup-spaghettios/761644/29 "2016-08-04T23:16:57Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > Wow. Lipstick on a pig. 🙂 > > I do fancy up canned soup sometimes, with a little diced onion and garlic in the pan first. But Chef Boyardee-O stuff is just… beyond help. > > I don’t eat much of the canned stuff any more, but frozen burritos, salisbury steak sandwiches and the like occasionally find their way into my lunch. One thing I miss is frozen tamales - another thing that seems to be taboo, shunned or illegal in FOSONE. (Along with tri-tip, boysenberry anything and some other west coast staples.) What is FOSONE? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grownup-spaghettios/761644/30 "2016-08-05T02:48:48Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > So my question to you fine adults who admit to enjoying an occasional (or not-so-occasional) bowl of the Os, have you ever zhuzhed it up with additional ingredients? Made it more “grown-up?” I’ll sometimes add whatever shredded cheese is on hand - parmesan or cheddar, typically. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grownup-spaghettios/761644/31 "2016-08-05T16:52:53Z")
> [@Johnny\_Ace](#): > > Eh, Spaghettio’s aren’t exactly _al dente_. I’ll stick with the few extra minutes it takes to make actual, y’know, pasta. You say that like it’s a bad thing. I’d rather have my past actually, y’know, done. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grownup-spaghettios/761644/32 "2016-08-05T19:15:58Z")
> [@Alan\_Smithee](#): > > What is FOSONE? Too bad Don Martin isn’t around any more. It’s probably a variation on FONEBONE. ---
**Author:** ![Macca26](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@Macca26](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Macca26)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grownup-spaghettios/761644/33 "2016-08-05T19:42:51Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > So my question to you fine adults who admit to enjoying an occasional (or not-so-occasional) bowl of the Os, have you ever zhuzhed it up with additional ingredients? Made it more “grown-up?” First, I never got why people (not people in this thread, but general people I’ve seen online) insist that SpaghettiOs is trying to be spaghetti with spaghetti sauce, when it is clearly a tomato soup with pasta rings in it. I don’t know why people always compare it to spaghetti when you should be comparing it to tomato soup. Anyway, I’m usually too lazy to do anything more than add a bit of whatever cheese I have in the fridge as well as come chili powder, ground coriander, and ground cumin. Very light on the coriander and cumin or it overpowers quickly. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grownup-spaghettios/761644/34 "2016-08-06T06:07:01Z")
I was food shopping today, and saw cans of SpaghettiOs, and was reminded of this thread. I’ve never had canned pasta, and considered buying a can just to give it a try. Then I read the list of ingredients . . . and put the can back on the shelf. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grownup-spaghettios/761644/35 "2016-08-06T14:41:53Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I was food shopping today, and saw cans of SpaghettiOs, and was reminded of this thread. I’ve never had canned pasta, and considered buying a can just to give it a try. Then I read the list of ingredients . . . and put the can back on the shelf. Beneath your dignity? ---
**Author:** ![tenacious\_j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@tenacious\_j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tenacious_j)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grownup-spaghettios/761644/36 "2016-08-06T18:34:58Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I was food shopping today, and saw cans of SpaghettiOs, and was reminded of this thread. I’ve never had canned pasta, and considered buying a can just to give it a try. Then I read the list of ingredients . . . and put the can back on the shelf. :smack: don’t ever read labels on nostalgic processed food! Some things are best left unread. That’s why I only eat them, and oreos and ho-hos once a year. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grownup-spaghettios/761644/37 "2016-08-06T20:56:40Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > Beneath your dignity? No, just a combination of ingredients that couldn’t possibly combine successfully. And how do you cook pasta and then can it? But I gotta admit, I’m intrigued by the concept of opening a can of little Os. I think I’d eat them one at a time. No food is beneath the dignity of someone who’s eaten haggis and bugs. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2016, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grownup-spaghettios/761644/38 "2016-08-07T04:45:22Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > No, just a combination of ingredients that couldn’t possibly combine successfully. And how do you cook pasta and then can it? But I gotta admit, I’m intrigued by the concept of opening a can of little Os. I think I’d eat them one at a time. > > No food is beneath the dignity of someone who’s eaten haggis and bugs. You’re welcome to it. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2016, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grownup-spaghettios/761644/39 "2016-08-07T22:54:58Z")
I love SpaghettiOs but only the kind with franks. I sing the Uh-oh jungle while I eat them and I miss the old Franco-American job Nile too. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2016, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grownup-spaghettios/761644/40 "2016-08-08T00:51:04Z")
Never had Spaghetti-Os but maybe once a month I’ll have some Chef B spaghetti with meatballs or beef (or even better, the rarely seen sausage) ravioli. I almost always modify it with something; most commonly sautéed onion and bell pepper, garlic, Italian herbs, crushed red pepper and Parmesan. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grownup-spaghettios/761644.md?page=1)