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themadvix

I’ve not had them in a long time, but I like tinned spaghetti (always better than tinned spaghetti hoops, which I imagine my mum bought because they were easier to dish up 🤣). All these comments are making me wonder if I’d still like them now though…

Greying_Pilgrim

Loving the tinned pasta chat on here everyone 😁 We used to have the tinned spaghetti growing up.  I preferred the hoops (easier to eat), but I think they must have been more expensive as we had those rarely.  Strangely, LG who is a pasta fiend, is not particularly fond of the hoops - which I can't understand.  I'm not too sure if I've ever tried them with conventional tinned spaghetti, due to the spillage potential (anything tomatoey really stains, doesn't it).  I have broken up conventional dried spaghetti to put it in soups etc, and they like that.  I've always found the veggie ravioli filling tastes really odd in the tinned versions, so don't eat that.  

But it's interesting how as a household we eat all sorts of tinned beans, and yet the pasta varieties are swerved around.  

I have done the 'washing the sauce' off the hooped pasta and putting that in soup - LG eats it no bother like that, and it offers a different shape.  They do always get shoved to the back when we have them though, baked beans will always be chosen over tinned pasta.

Greying X

teapot2

Toast with lots of butter topped with spaghetti hoops minus most of the sauce and finished off with a fried egg - yum, comfort food 🤤

Watty1

We must have been very posh - we had tinned alphabet spaghetti sometimes   It was such fun making words with the letters although I did get into trouble for "playing with food" rather than eating it.

Baileys_Babe

I've never liked tinned pasta and I can not see the appeal of hoops on toast - carbohydrate and carbohydrate, shudders at the thought of it.

themadvix

Baileys_Babe said:

I've never liked tinned pasta and I can not see the appeal of hoops on toast - carbohydrate and carbohydrate, shudders at the thought of it.

No one said it was healthy BB! 🤣 (and there's protein and fat in the slatherings of butter 😉)

EssexHebridean

Watty1 said:

We must have been very posh - we had tinned alphabet spaghetti sometimes   It was such fun making words with the letters although I did get into trouble for "playing with food" rather than eating it.

I never understood the logic of giving a child food that they could literally write words with, then telling them off for doing it! 

greent

I used to love spaghetti hoops as a child - especially with a fried egg and mixing the yolk into the sauce and mopping it up with white bread and butter. I also used to buy all of the themed (eg Bob the Builder, Disney etc) mini cans of shaped pasta when my kids were small. The eldest 2 loved it, the youngest 2 not so much. 

I found them too sweet, too soggy and just not filling enough when I tried them a few years ago (I think there was a can when clearing out someone's house)

Afrwe that taste buds change - there's stuff I wouldn't touch when younger that are staples now, - and vice-versa

KajiKita

When I was doing my H&S qualifications there was someone else on my course who worked at the Pot Noodle factory and he invited me over to have a look. 

I wasn't mad keen on them before I went there and I would NEVER eat one now!!  

KK

Cheery_Daff

Ooh, don't put me off a Pot Noodle - they are my every-now-and-then, stuck-in-a-hotel-on-my-own treat food 😂😂