# Uh-oh, Spaghetti-O **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 31, 2001, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-spaghetti-o/90775 "2001-10-31T20:16:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-spaghetti-o/90775/1 "2001-10-31T20:16:43Z")
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](http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/sforth/about.htm) 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? ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-spaghetti-o/90775/2 "2001-10-31T20:23:19Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-spaghetti-o/90775/3 "2001-10-31T20:32:50Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-spaghetti-o/90775/4 "2001-10-31T20:53:15Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-spaghetti-o/90775/5 "2001-10-31T20:54:34Z")
Don’t laugh and don’t ralph. Sauté canned tuna with Italian seasoning. Mix in Spaghetti-Os. Finish cooking. Add grated cheese. I liked it. ---
**Author:** ![Winnowill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4491bb/32.png) [@Winnowill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnowill)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-spaghetti-o/90775/6 "2001-10-31T21:16:26Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Mauvaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mauvaise/32/11084_2.png) [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-spaghetti-o/90775/7 "2001-10-31T21:26:20Z")
_cough_ [sub]I like Spaghetti-O’s, but only with the franks… I even have a can in my cupboard as I type this[/sub] :o ---
**Author:** ![tevya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@tevya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tevya)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-spaghetti-o/90775/8 "2001-10-31T21:27:49Z")
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.) ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-spaghetti-o/90775/9 "2001-10-31T21:27:54Z")
If you really can’t bear them, you could donate them to your local homeless shelter. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-spaghetti-o/90775/10 "2001-10-31T22:20:46Z")
Dear God man!!! 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! ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-spaghetti-o/90775/11 "2001-10-31T22:43:43Z")
I suggest getting some ZipLock® bags and passing the stuff out as Halloween treats. ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-spaghetti-o/90775/12 "2001-11-01T00:21:57Z")
My co-worker receommends a tongue piercing. Not that it improves the taste, but it gives you something to do with the Os while eating 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-spaghetti-o/90775/13 "2001-11-01T01:49:51Z")
I love S’ghetti-Os! With meatballs for me, please. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-spaghetti-o/90775/14 "2001-11-01T02:19:30Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-spaghetti-o/90775/15 "2001-11-01T02:19:33Z")
Mmmmmmmm Spaghetti-O’s! Nature’s most perfect food! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![poohpah\_chalupa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@poohpah\_chalupa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/poohpah_chalupa)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-spaghetti-o/90775/16 "2001-11-01T15:18:06Z")
**Francesca** - Excellent idea! **UncleBeer** - Even Better!! **Omniscient** - Mac & Cheese? Absolutely. McD’s Fries? No question. But lumping the O’s in with these foods? Whaddya, high? **Athena** - Yeah. You can add bacon and cheddar to just about anything and it makes for a richer life experience. **screech-owl** - _urrrrp_ ::runs to bathroom:: ---
**Author:** ![sandalwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@sandalwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandalwood)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-spaghetti-o/90775/17 "2001-11-02T01:00:38Z")
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) ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2001, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-spaghetti-o/90775/18 "2001-11-17T23:39:34Z")
Thank God! [Spaghetti-Os Discontinued As Franco-American Relations Break Down](http://www.theonion.com/onion3741/spaghettios_discontinued.html) ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2001, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-spaghetti-o/90775/19 "2001-11-18T01:32:31Z")
Add some black pepper…make it lots of black pepper. It worked for me. Am I the only one here that her spaghettio’s can lasts for lunch and dinner? ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2001, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-spaghetti-o/90775/20 "2001-11-18T11:21:16Z")
I love spaghetti-O’s!!! Um… that’s all I have to say… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uh-oh-spaghetti-o/90775.md?page=2)