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When I worked at LSI Logic in the 2000's, there were a lot of young Europeans (mostly Italian) on the staff. They had rented a house in Palo Alto which was affe
by drmpeg 11mo ago
When I worked at LSI Logic in the 2000's, there were a lot of young Europeans (mostly Italian) on the staff. They had rented a house in Palo Alto which was affectionately called "The Pleasure Lounge".
It was just one of those houses that had the awesome party vibe. The only rule was that if you had to puke, you had to go in the back yard and do it in front of the Mother of Mary statue.
The best part was if you made it to 4 am, the Italians would break out the spaghetti, cook a big pot of it and serve it with just olive oil (no tomato sauce). Sitting around the kitchen table wicked hammered eating plain spaghetti is the correct way to end a party.
- unnouinceput 11mo agoSpaghetti without tomato sauce? That's like pissing in the morning without farting. Sure, it'll get the main job done but it's not the same pure pleasure.
- hexbin010 11mo agoCacio e Pepe, carbonara, spaghetti aglio e olio, spaghetti al vongole, white ragù There's a whole world out there! Tomato sauces can be acidic, so not great when drunk. Also tomatoes stain (if it were to come back up) !
- bigstrat2003 11mo agoAgreed that spaghetti sauce doesn't have to be tomato based. Just olive oil doesn't cut it, though - you need more than that.
- andreareina 11mo agoButtered noodles are good, I have no a priori reason that simple oil wouldn't be also.
- louistsi 11mo agoButter emulsifies into a sauce just from the residual heat of the spaghetti (and some mechanical action - stirring, pan flip, etc) Oil needs a bit more help, otherwise it's just grease on noodles. The starchy water the pasta was cooked in can do most of the heavy lifting there, but the addition of garlic helps too.
- Arch-TK 11mo agoIt was most likely garlic and olive oil (and salt and pasta water).
- mrighele 11mo agoMy guess is that the pasta mentioned above is spaghetti "aglio olio e peperoncino" (garlic, olive oil, red pepper), so not just olive oil. Could be the recipe with the highest ratio taste/effort you can find, something that even a drunk student can pull off a 4 in the morning, so they probably just continued their tradition from the university years
- pcl 11mo agoFwiw, you can neutralize tomato sauce with a little bit of baking soda. Start with a pinch, stir, wait thirty seconds, and taste to see if you need more.
- 7bit 11mo agoWhy do I immediately think you must be American? Theres plenty of recipes without tomatosauce.
- bayindirh 11mo agoI eat spaghetti completely plain. Pot to plate, directly.
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- lynx97 11mo agoEven when plain sober, I consider aglio e olio the best spaghetti there is.
- ashanoko 11mo agoAt least no https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speibecken https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speibecken ?