One of my nieces does this, too.
Who cares if it’s weird, so long as it’s good!
I recently made a batch with olive oil, cracked pepper and some sliced garlic that was to die for.
Groucho/ how it got in my underwear I’ll never know/GM
When I was a kid my mom always served the spaghetti and the sauce separately. While everybody else in the room would put the meat sauce on the noodles, my mom ate her spaghetti with butter, and ate the meat sauce separately with a spoon.
I always thought that was weird.
Never heard of pasta with butter but one of my stand-by quick recipes is spaghetti with paremesan, olive oil and flaked chili.
Nearly naked…let’s say barely dressed.
Years ago one of the pasta companies (Mueller’s?) used to run an ad featuring a side dish of ‘buttered noodles’. So no, not unusual at all, in my eyes.
I eat spaghetti with butter, salt and parmesan cheese all the time. It’s the only way I’ll eat spaghetti if my husband is making the sauce because his recipe involves dumping a jar of sauce into a pan then rinsing out the jar with some water and dumping THAT into the pan, adding a metric buttload of garlic to it and then heating it.
If I make my homemade sauce, however, then I’ll eat it with sauce. I’m kind of a snob that way.
I was probably 10 before I started eating spaghetti w/meat sauce. Eating w/butter+cheese, not weird at all, and as mentioned above, awesome!
Pasta, butter, Parmesan cheese and some garlic salt (or real garlic if I have it) and I am a very happy camper.
Does anyone eat sauce without pasta?
I enjoy plain pasta, I think it is yummy. I will usually toss it with a small amount of butter, maybe some pepper and/or chili pepper flakes, and a sprinkle of parm. Okay, I guess that really isn’t plain pasta after that.
During my one trip to Italy (Northern Italy), some of the best pasta dishes I ate were ones served with butter only, with fresh parmesan on the side.
Sure. Cold leftover sauce out of a jar with a spoon. But it has to be a good sauce with roasted tomatoes and cabernet, or something chunky and rustic. Not as a meal but something to have while getting dinner ready.
Pasta just with butter seems very bland and a bit odd to me.
How do you define sauce? Sautee a bit of garlic or shallots in good olive oil, put this on spaghetti and add parmesan. Great.
One pound rotini, one stick butter, 3/4 of the 8 oz parmesan container. Wouldn’t want to go overboard with the cheese. 
Yes, it belongs on thisiswhyyourefat.com
When I was a kid, I would make a meal out of garlic bread and spaghetti sauce.
Pasta dry? yep wierd. But pick one from COl A and 1-3 from COL B = perfect.
COL A
Butter
Olive Oil
COL B
Parmesan
Basil
Garlic
Hell. I’ve been eating pasta (spaghetti mostly; sometimes macaroni) raw for as long as I can remember. Also sometimes put italian dressing on raw macaroni. Eating it naked, while probably blander and less crunchy than eating it raw, is not something I’m going to give you a hard time about.
Olive oil
Pasta
Salt
Oregano
Feta
Fresh tomato wedges peppered on the side.
I grew up on this. In my Italian family, it was known as Aglio e olio