How To Eat Spaghetti | Like a real Italian (with/without a Spoon?)

Ma Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
In this video, we will finally find out and clear up the question: What is the right way to eat spaghetti? How should I eat pasta?
I cannot understand, is it right to eat with a spoon, or maybe I should cut the long strands of them?
Wait, wait.. can't I just eat spaghetti with only using my fork?
Well ) The answer is in the video, that I have prepared for you.
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with love, Lucy ~

[@etiquettewithlussin]

Which way YOU like to eat spaghetti dears? With a spoon or without?☺🤍

[@fredfable5655]

With a spoon...other than that is a 'vulgarity"...if there's no spoon on site lets go vulgar. LOL.

[@Holyvibes-i3f]

By hands👐🏼

[@Roxanna-j2g]

With a spoon.

[@watchALLthethings]

Personally, my technique as a red-blooded American is to slam my face in the dish itself and vacuum all the noodles into my head.

[@Baronstone]

Why do I not doubt your claim? Also what does that have to do with being an American? I have seen Brits, Canucks, and even Aussies do that very same thing

[@northwest1760]

⁠@@Baronstonethat’s not true at all. Canadians freeze it, shave it, and eat it as snow cones, the Brits eat it by the fistful with a little punching for fun, and Aussies baby bird feed it to each other. Tell me you haven’t travelled, without telling me you haven’t travelled.

[@anthonywestjr1063]

Tony Soprano used a spoon so I follow his lead in all matters of etiquette! 🤣👍🏾

[@anthonys5568]

I think the spoon issue is north vs south and restaurant vs home cooking matter. My family was from Lazio and the elders taught us to eat long past with a spoon.

[@ynwa6215]

sorry I use chopsticks...

[@chuchulainn9275]

Me too sometimes. 😅

[@welm8412]

Me too but only at home when I'm alone 😂

[@fearmetoo-le8dw]

So I work in hospitality and recently was invited to dinner. I ordered Spaghetti alle Vongole and subconsciously ate it like how I usually do (using my fork to scoop up the food, and slurping up the hanging noodles) so now I'm watching etiquette videos to never make that mistake again.

[@vin2629]

Two strands a time will take ages to finish my meal ! But how ever that’s the way to eat in professional settings. I avoid sphagetti or any noodles in professional dinners for that purpose. That’s for the video.

[@etiquettewithlussin]

Yes, by the way Spaghetti is one of the meals NOT recommended for formal dinners, business lunches etc. Thank you 😊

[@ClimbingTheMountain777]

Boy am I relieved I'm not the only one.

[@ptinio2]

I use the spoon. Easier and I’ve had other diners turn heads looking at me. I don’t mind. I’m not stopping down my neck to eat spaghetti

[@martyreking5487]

My technique is to grab a handful, tilt my head back and shove it down my mouth, a little messy but hey...that's why they have napkins.

[@h.welliewellman3595]

I’ve always found it more difficult to use a fork & spoon than just a spoon? I’m glad to know that using just the fork is preferred!

[@Scrapla1]

My dad would always use a spoon and fork eating pasta.

[@alexylang4427]

You forgot to use your napkin Ms Etiquette

[@whenifeellikeit]

I use the spoon. What do Italians do with all of that sauce left on the plate after eating the spaghetti? The spoon helps to grab more sauce, too.😊

[@dott.ssasarademaria.psicol3709]

Have you ever heard about "scarpetta"?

[@shakenbakemoe2476]

Scrape the plate with bread

[@BigBl0ck-r9y]

Old italian grandpas and gramas use a spoon back in the they everyone did!

[@whenifeellikeit]

@@dott.ssasarademaria.psicol3709 who eats spaghetti with bread?

[@varbanova75]

@@whenifeellikeit Me :) LOL

[@keilana6]

Graci. 80 years & I sill can't eat spaghetti w/o making a mess on my chin, face & top. Will give your easy fork style a careful try. Usually opt for another kind of pasta to avoid embarrassment.

[@echuparosa]

Oh good, because that is exactly the way I already do it. 😊

[@robertw.]

I'm from northern Italy and use only the fork. I never use the spoon.

[@billy.7113]

Can I bring a pair of chopsticks 🥢 to show off my superior skill? 👌😄

[@leol3301]

Haha it will be a nice way to piss off french and italian at the same time.

[@NoNameNoWhere]

I cut spaghetti with my fork, then scoop it. Blasphemy? Yes. But it works so incredibly well. It's easier and faster than twirling, and you avoid having to slurp or awkwardly eat lose strands. If you value efficiency, cleanlines, and manners, it is the best way to eat spaghetti. But if you just enjoy twirling, go for it. It's objectively less efficient, but many people enjoy the feel of twirling. And that's fine.

[@dpfb1263]

Eat your spaghetti/linguine any which way you want. I have seen too many "experts" telling others how to eat spaghetti & it's ridiculous. I'm not actually sure what the term "real" Italian means, but I think I'm a "real" Italian. If all 4 grandparents came here from Italy, do I meet the standards to be considered a "real" Italian"? I have never heard "REAL" in front of any other ethnicity, except for Italians. Why is that? Like my mother said when she heard someone say "real Italian”. She literally had to laughed at them, and she said... "What's with this real Italian stuff? Either you're Italian or you're not. There is no in between." If you're calling Italians who live in Italy "real" Italians, that's weird. Just call them Italians. BTW, there are tens of thousands of people who were born in Italy that don't have Italian DNA, yet they're Italians. After all, Italy is their country & if they speak the language then they are Italian. Now back to me, a 2nd generation Italian American, who doesn't like spaghetti dangling on my chin. To avoid this, I use a spoon to twirl my spaghetti onto the fork. One of my grandfathers did the same, the others did not. I grew up in a town with mostly Italian families. Some ate their spaghetti with a spoon, most did not. There are no set rules on how to eat pasta, or for that matter, how to make certain recipes. That would be like comparing how to make an apple pie like a "real" American. Well, "real" Americans use MANY different recipes, so who's the "real" American? Same holds true for Italy (different regions. Different towns, cities, and once so many different isolated small villages). Not every ragu sauce is made the same way. However, what will be the same are the fresh ingredients, no short cuts allowed, and understanding that cooking is all about family & friends. Sit, eat, drink, and enjoy.

[@dermolado3351]

But you've got the utensils the wrong way round in your hands!!!

[@etiquettewithlussin]

I am really sorry as the clip was flipped. The camera showed everything otherwise. The upcoming videos wouldn't have that issue.☺

[@nellimashmuryan9036]

As for me, with a spoon 🤣🙈

[@etiquettewithlussin]

😅

[@MarjanSI]

An italian only uses fork as you mentioned 🤫🥰

[@fredfable5655]

Not true. An educated Italian uses a spoon and fork.

[@marcnicolet9540]

some Italians .... and some others with a spoon.

[@AdventuresofKittyTheMime]

Spoons don’t go with spaghetti noodles Why should you have the utensil you’re eating with in your right hand?

[@StevenHughes-hr5hp]

Maybe she is right handed?

[@fromjennywithlove5407]

I’m not a professional spaghetti eater because I eat it for free 😂

[@StevenHughes-hr5hp]

Pick it up using just a fork, roll the fork while it is in midair until it is tightly wrapped around and place it in your mouth. Stabbing the plate and using unnecessary silverware is just wrong.

[@kristofbarta8712]

I've always eaten it with a single fork, and that's it. However, today during a college lecture, the prof said - I'm a CS student; how we got to spaghetti, IDK. We were talking about starving philosophers and semaphores - that what our example assumed - that we need two forks to eat spaghetti - was wrong, and I was like, yeah it's obvious, why'd you need two? And then he goes "you eat it with a spoon and a fork" and I spent the rest of the lecture thinking about where the hell the spoon goes.

[@pietroleone1595]

The mise en place is wrong, on the right spoon and knife, on the left fork and napkin, but maybe this change based on the country. The only way to eat spaghetti, and every type of long pasta, is using only the fork, the is not difference such as north vs south or home vs restaurant, only good manners vs bad manners.

[@ashleyadams6803]

The first thing you should have done is place your napkin on your lap! After putting the spoon in the pasta the spoon should have been placed on the plate, not your napkin!

[@walterrumohr7090]

Spaghetti is Chinese noodles and the best proper way to eat is to use CHOPSTICK. 😂

[@MountainManFred]

Very good info.. about 1 minute in, you said "the fork in our right hand..and the spoon in our left hand".. did the video load wrong? Anyway, very good info..Thanks!

[@leol3301]

Am I the only one eating Spaghetti with a spoon and chopsticks?

[@iolaborrelli2930]

She calls herself an international Etiquette expert but didn't research probably by saying that "according to Italian's there is only one right way to eat spaghetti is only with a fork." That is wrong, that is what people today are doing because they don't know how or cant be bother to eat spaghetti the traditional way by using a Fork & Spoon. I'm Italian and i grew up the Prober Etiquette way by using fork & spoon. Also with pizza when your in a restaurant you use a fork and knife now that is etiquette she probably doesn't know that either.

[@etiquettewithlussin]

You are so polite like your answer 😊 Thank you ! Remember the way you eat this or that dish is NOTHING compared with the way you interact with someone. How you talk to them. Be polite to EVERYONE! , even with those who you do not see 😊🌱

[@eatmorechiken]

Whatever - Europe didn't even have utensils until the Persians introduced it to them.

[@brandonestrada3487]

Whats with the cringe voice?💀

[@stratsteveo106]

Im Italian, we use the spoon and fork. But eyy it's a noodle who cares right? Lol

[@wendigo1919]

An Italian born and living in Italy? Every Italian I've spoken with says it is eaten with a fork only. I've heard Italian Americans saying they eat with the fork and spoon. Just curious... But it truly does not matter, as this dinner is about fine dining etiquette, specifically.

[@anabelaferreira9926]

There are Italians saying the older generation uses the spoon. Can anyone confirm that?

[@fredfable5655]

@@anabelaferreira9926 I do. People educated before first and Second World War did this as a normal way.

[@anabelaferreira9926]

@@fredfable5655 Thank you very much for replying :)

[@iolaborrelli2930]

yes that is 100% true, my parents and many other italians that left italy to north america and did and taught us kids how to use a fork & spoon with spaghetti.@@anabelaferreira9926

[@MrGaidzak]

An elegant Armenian lady❤.... Parev

[@monamenager4802]

Spaghetti in a bowl is a no-no. Spoon is never used.

[@spruzzal67]

Se mangi gli spaghetti con il cucchiaio puoi chiedere il bonus psicologo

[@jaybrownjr.]

I'm about to eat with a pretty girl and I have to be sure.

[@Ellifiknow]

It's like listening to Alexanya Atoz.

[@clnsr]

Some cook told me that the spoon is there not for the spaghetti, but when you get soup.

[@wraynephew6838]

I am left handed. it harder to twirl spagetti with the right hand. I truly enjoy the spoon and fork method

[@lauraelizabethbrown]

If you twirl it with your left hand instead, technically that's the most proper way to do it and eat it anyway, and the most international. Notice that's technically what the lady in the video is doing.

[@wraynephew6838]

@@lauraelizabethbrown yes it is. But she said "spoon in the left and fork in the right hand" when she is doing the opposite

[@quicktoreason2722]

Wait till you find out real Italians used to eat pasta with their hands. No forks no spoons.

[@etiquettewithlussin]

😅

[@fingreen2663]

Learning to twirl the fork like your tongue is important! It looks so allegiant~

[@Mr.LaughingDuck]

*elegant

[@vsirrmk]

😅

[@vaclavkomrska1033]

I just use knife to make it smaller😂

[@akosszilvasi]

Spaghetti is not a noodle ;-)

[@sarmadbaloch432]

If anyone sees me eating like the way I eat they would stop eating it 😂

[@keilana6]

They probably would send me out of the room. Perhaps I could have a "piggy" party with like minded twirlers.

[@MikeListon-tk8ir]

00:52 appears you don't know your right hand from your left hand 🤣

[@gemma88993]

Non si usa il cucchiaio è da cafoni.

[@marystar6021]

🍝 Is slurping long spaghetti strands frowned upon?😂😅😂

[@Charlydx21]

My italian aunt told me they never used spoons, that’s an American invention.

[@kelhapam]

I use a fork against the spoon. I don't think it matters which way you eat it as long as you have control of the pasta and it's not slapping against your chin or sauce is dripping on your shirt. I do think it's odd when an adult cuts up and eats spaghetti like you would for a child.

[@cicislife1147]

Lmao

[@inspiringlifeguidance]

My friend saw your videos & he is eating sphegati since 2020

[@marinebalasanyan4903]

Isn't it even somewhat difficult to use the spoon? 😅

[@etiquettewithlussin]

Wouldn't say so )

[@fredfable5655]

may be at the beginning...but you will get it very soon!!

[@jukio02]

When I'm at home, I just eat it like ramen.

[@85jmccoy]

I just scoop and slurp mine

[@jonelbondyingnuezca742]

Those are beautiful

[@dimensione90]

Absolutely without.

[@iggytekula]

Calling spaghetti a noodle, mama mia 😭🤌🏻

[@StevenHughes-hr5hp]

Ramen spaghetti is very good.

[@Dirty_Squirrell]

My mom taught me to keep my left hand in my lap unless using a knife, drinking, or eating bread. Resting ot against the table was a big no-no.

[@jhumusangma8810]

❤❤❤

[@ernestguzman4962]

There’s only one way I do it - With chopsticks, letting the long strands slap my chin. After all, what are napkins for?

[@EK-fy5yy]

Noooise 😊

[@MNCC8]

You can tell shes drunk in this lol

[@NagdainCanada]

Nice 👍

[@2379030]

[@Armando_Lara]

Very good video!

[@libertyengineering]

With a spoon and fork is classic, classy, etiquette. It’s the best way to get a tight bundle. Only a younger generation who were not taught by their grand parents would say don’t use a spoon, but it is the classy way.

[@FranciscoLinares-pe7lm]

I thought the correct way was slurping the spaguetti letting the strand get into the mouth like ramen.

[@samirpetrocelli6583]

The only way to really enjoy pasta is make a chubby bundle in the fork and suck the noodles left

[@MishaTavkhelidze]

It's called pasta, not nuddles. :)

[@imsljr420]

I thought spaghetti was American not Italian.

[@MWorsa]

Watching people use spoons with spaghetti irks me, they always seem so smug, just like pronouncing all those Italian words totally wrong.

[@suhasurubail3846]

You can eat however you want

[@sharimeguiar8888]

I cut it all up with knife and fork, then eat with a spoon...ha ha, who cares!

[@keilana6]

All going to the belly no matter the utensil used.

[@jarmoeskela6880]

Which hand?

[@innaborodina1681]

An Armenian teaches how to eat Italian dish????? Seriously? And that false semi -British accent!!!!

[@etiquettewithlussin]

Sure, If you've never seen an Armenian teaching Etiquette rules, then Welcome my you-tube blog. ☺ As for my accent, dear Inna Borodina, I'm not a Native* speaker, so it's quite fair to speak with neither clear British accent, nor clear American accent. It's okay to speak the way you can ☺Thank you for your feedback.

[@rhubarbspatula]

Not only are you wrong, you are also unnecessarily being a dick to someone who is being so kind as to teach us useful skills for free.

[@maryaboyd2667]

Thank you for teaching the proper way to eat

[@jeffsnowden5119]

Is it good etiquette to use the fork or the spoon to extract spaghetti from a cleavage - or is it permissible to let one’s partner use his fingers ?

[@NoNameNoWhere]

One should never stick anything down their shirt. That is uncouth. Instead, the shirt should be removed entirely.

[@mard999]

Do u saw that video, how i learned to eat spaghetti in kenya? İts amazing talent for eat and ... 😉