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I thought I might cook my girlfriend some spaghetti once. I'm part Italian I thought, it's my birthright to cook spaghetti. I Ran the water, put some olive oil in it so that the noodles wouldn't stick to the bottom, & started a smaller second pan for the sauce.
I got fairly cheap sauce at a 99 yen store, but how bad could it be right, I mean, no worse than 'ragu'...? I took the noodles out and ran them through some cold water (to wash off the starch)... then served the noodles with a good deal more sauce than you get in Japan when you're eating Italian...
Mmmm it tastes just like.... CHEF BOY ARDEE??? Exactly. For some reason, more than one spaghetti sauce tastes exactly like what you would find in a can of spaghetti-o's... I'd learned my lesson, and from then on bought jars (diminutive though they were) of sphagetti sauce from the grocer's section at Jusco... but, was this what Japanese thought spaghetti should ever taste like? Anyone have similar experiences?
As for Italian, I do remember in my prefecture there was a restaraunt called Konnichiwa Italian Diner, which was so questionable in it's name that even my girlfriend didn't want to go there.
I got fairly cheap sauce at a 99 yen store, but how bad could it be right, I mean, no worse than 'ragu'...? I took the noodles out and ran them through some cold water (to wash off the starch)... then served the noodles with a good deal more sauce than you get in Japan when you're eating Italian...
Mmmm it tastes just like.... CHEF BOY ARDEE??? Exactly. For some reason, more than one spaghetti sauce tastes exactly like what you would find in a can of spaghetti-o's... I'd learned my lesson, and from then on bought jars (diminutive though they were) of sphagetti sauce from the grocer's section at Jusco... but, was this what Japanese thought spaghetti should ever taste like? Anyone have similar experiences?
As for Italian, I do remember in my prefecture there was a restaraunt called Konnichiwa Italian Diner, which was so questionable in it's name that even my girlfriend didn't want to go there.