I visited my folks the past couple of days and for lunch Monday mom does some hot dogs and Spaghetti-Os. WTF? My mom is not one to serve bland food and the Franco-American treat is the Sally Forth of canned, pasta-like substances. Even Chef Boyardee ravioli is edible. I tried jazzing them up with Tabasco and A-1 steak sauce but to no avail. The dog had to finish mine. I asked for an explanation and dad admitted he had a craving for them one day. My mom tends to the lumber camp/Y2K bunker style of grocery shopping so instead of buying a single can at the Grocery store she gets the 6 pack of jumbo cans at Costco.
Now what do we do with this stuff? Is there any good recipe that can make bland little pasta rings in sauce palatable?
How timely. I bought a 6-pack for my son (same deal) only to find he doesn’t like them.
However, I don’t really mind. It’s been years since I had them. So I’ll eat the other 5 cans. I don’t hold much hope that any Doper, no matter how resourceful we are as a group, can produce a scrumptious recipe for them.
I can tolerate the stuff with ground black pepper and lots of parmesan cheese. But it’s probably been at least a decade since I last ate it.
In the days of my youthful decadence I would always eat a can before we went out for a hard night of drinking. Not as a preventative, just because if I did get sick I wanted it to be interesting.
I’ve never tried it, but the first thing that comes to mind is to add bacon & cheddar cheese to 'em. Not exactly health food, but if you cooked up some bacon in a pan, crumbled it, drained the grease out of the pan, added sketti-os, added crumbled bacon, heated through, then served with shredded cheddar cheese I bet it would be good.
I used to LOVE Spaghetti-Os. Plain, or with the meatball or frankfurter additions. One day a few years ago I came upon them while grocery shopping and was overcome with nostalgia. I bought them, brought them home, ate them, and wondered…
I thought these were GOOD once? I actually ENJOYED them? What the hell was wrong with me?
Proving again Bill Cosby’s assertion that children have brain damage.
Man I loved Spaghetti-Os when I was a kid! All this talk is givin’ me a hankerin’ for a big can of 'em. Perhaps you can have your mother mail them to me? (Although, like jadailey I will probably find out that I don’t like them anymore.)
What is wrong with you people? Spaghetti-Os are one of lifes perfect foods. I have 8 cans in my cupboard at this moment, one less than I had before lunch today.
There’s Mac & Cheese, Spaghetti-Os, and MickeyD’s French Fries, then there’s everything else.
And don’t soil me with talk of those bastard Meatball or Frank versions…the delicsious orange stuff gets a odd funky flavor from sitting in a can for a few months with those things. I like hot dogs in Spaghetti-Os, but only regular Spaghetti-Os, as good as hot dogs are I don’t want the entire noodle sauce mixture to ferment in the strange hot dog/smoke flavor juice that seeps from hot dogs. this is what happpens to the odd Spaghetti or flavors.
You don’t want your Spaghetti-O’s, send 'em to me!
Spaghetti-O’s… and you guys like them! :eek: The thread about Dopers who had sexual experiences outside their species didn’t disturb me as much as this thread.
My mom puts teriyaki powder in spaghetti o’s shrug must be an asian thing. And you might want to try to melt a little cream cheese in it, I think it’ll make it taste a little better. (I do this with regular spaghetti sometimes)
