You should move to Texas. Then, it would be a local call:)
After a long search I was able to determine this is a comment on Cecil’s column,
If spaghetti is Italian, why is it sold by Franco-American?
A follow up question regarding the origin of pasta ended with the following exchange:
Yesterday’s Cecil’s Clsssic Column.
Thanks for the link.
(You should always leave sarcastic humor to the experts.)