# How many times a week do you guys eat spaghetti? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 10, 2012, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-a-week-do-you-guys-eat-spaghetti/631130 "2012-08-10T22:58:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2012, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-a-week-do-you-guys-eat-spaghetti/631130/41 "2012-08-12T01:26:13Z")
I make spaghetti probably once a month and it’ll last about 3 or 4 days. ---
**Author:** ![Carmady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f04885/32.png) [@Carmady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carmady)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2012, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-a-week-do-you-guys-eat-spaghetti/631130/42 "2012-08-12T02:16:29Z")
8 sub sandwiches a week, 16 burritos a week, 18 pieces of chicken a week, 21 bowls of cereal a week. But spaghetti? About once a month. ---
**Author:** ![Michael63129](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@Michael63129](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael63129)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2012, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-a-week-do-you-guys-eat-spaghetti/631130/43 "2012-08-12T03:27:57Z")
> [@Carmady](#): > > 8 sub sandwiches a week, 16 burritos a week, 18 pieces of chicken a week, 21 bowls of cereal a week. > > But spaghetti? About once a month. 21 bowls of cereal? Or is that for your entire family (including the others)? ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2012, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-a-week-do-you-guys-eat-spaghetti/631130/44 "2012-08-12T03:30:59Z")
If by “spaghetti” you mean “pasta”, then probably two or three times a week. My husband loves pasta, and is happy with red sauce over vermicelli, or lasagna, or shells, or manicotti. I make red sauce with a little bit of hamburger meat and a lot of chopped onions, bell peppers, mushrooms, and garlic, and then open a jar of marinara sauce on them after they’re cooked. I freeze the leftover sauce in single serving portions, in freezer bags. My husband likes pasta much more than I do, so sometimes he’ll boil some pasta and nuke the sauce, while I have a turkey sandwich. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2012, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-a-week-do-you-guys-eat-spaghetti/631130/45 "2012-08-12T13:53:33Z")
I like spaghetti a lot, but I can’t recall when I last had any. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2012, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-a-week-do-you-guys-eat-spaghetti/631130/46 "2012-08-13T13:14:47Z")
Spaghetti… dunnow, it has to be in a restaurant. Pasta, several times a week: if I’m making my own meals, 5 or 6 of the “mains” in a given week will be either pasta or rice. I often have vegetables mixed with the pasta or rice; for some reason, this is (at least locally) seen as “pasta with vegetables”, whereas having the carbs be potatoes would be described as “vegetables with potatoes”. ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2012, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-a-week-do-you-guys-eat-spaghetti/631130/47 "2012-08-13T13:29:06Z")
Maybe once a month to month and a half? I could eat spaghetti w/meatballs or hot sausage for days 🙂 Ditto spaghetti with olive oil, lemon, and Parmesan. Like somebody upthread said, pasta = crack to me. Unfortunately Mr. Kiz doesn’t share my sentiments. He cannot stomach tomatoes because of the acid (doesn’t matter how much I sweeten them). I make a killer summer pasta salad with veggies galore, but I don’t make it very often because Mr. Kiz doesn’t like pasta salad. He’ll eat plain pasta with the olive oil/lemon/Parmesan, but not very often. (Yep, I know I could make these for myself and he be damned, but it’s only the 2 of us and I’d be eating the whole thing myself for a week. Um, no thanks.) I think, with him, it’s more of a texture thing. He won’t touch mac and cheese because it’s too “soft” for him. I won’t touch it because it’s too cheesy for me. I prefer pasta (fusilli, ziti) to spaghetti or linguine because there’s more “bite” to it. He doesn’t like that “bite” factor and can’t understand why I can’t make my pasta salad using regular spaghetti. The whole nooks-and-crannies-to-hide-the-good-stuff philsophy is entirely lost on him. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2012, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-a-week-do-you-guys-eat-spaghetti/631130/48 "2012-08-13T13:55:25Z")
Since I’m the only one with a say in my meals now, never. I’m not a fan of pasta and only make it if it’s really important to someone else. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2012, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-a-week-do-you-guys-eat-spaghetti/631130/49 "2012-08-13T15:37:57Z")
My husband eats it probably once a week. Me, only when I make my own sauce, and then it’s maybe once every three to four weeks. ---
**Author:** ![Kiros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/439d5e/32.png) [@Kiros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiros)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2012, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-a-week-do-you-guys-eat-spaghetti/631130/50 "2012-08-13T15:47:17Z")
I could very easily eat half a box of pasta with a little olive oil or butter, lightly seasoned, and fresh grated parmesan cheese every night without fail. That really screws with my daily calorie allotment, though, so I manage to keep it down to once or twice a month. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2012, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-a-week-do-you-guys-eat-spaghetti/631130/51 "2012-08-13T15:53:09Z")
> [@Cement](#): > > I’m up to 4 times a week now. > > 3 of those times do not have hamburger meat and that makes me sad. I don’t know why they call it Hamburger Helper. It does just fine by itself! ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2012, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-a-week-do-you-guys-eat-spaghetti/631130/52 "2012-08-14T12:27:14Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > Never. I don’t eat grains. I will occasionally eat it with spaghetti squash or zucchini noodles, but it’s rare. Thank you, **Drain Bead** , for helping me discover another use for the monster zucchini that always hide under the leaves in our garden. Now I’m off to try both zucchini spaghetti and zucchini fettuccine! Never thought of that before!😃 ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2012, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-a-week-do-you-guys-eat-spaghetti/631130/53 "2012-08-14T15:15:52Z")
Zero. Spaghetti isn’t even really a pasta, it’s an Italian prank designed to make Americans get sauce all over themselves! ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2012, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-a-week-do-you-guys-eat-spaghetti/631130/54 "2012-08-14T16:02:40Z")
I have spaghetti, strictly defined, maybe twice a year and other types of pasta maybe once or twice a month. I’m not a big fan of pasta, since it’s high in calories but has virtually no flavor and has a texture I generally find unappetizing. I especially dislike long-stranded types of pasta (spaghetti, vermicelli, fettuccini, etc) because they’re messy and inconvenient to eat. Occasionally I get the mood for pasta salad or homemade macaroni and cheese or pasta with Alfredo sauce. I generally use rotini or rotelle. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-times-a-week-do-you-guys-eat-spaghetti/631130.md?page=2)