What's the deal with spaghetti-o's

[City of Mills]

Is cooking your own pasta really that hard? Do people like the taste of that tomato-brine?

What gives?

[Orsino]

1. It's not spaghetti...

...and shouldn't be judged by that standard, just as frozen pizza is not pizza.

I still love the taste of them O's.

[KurtNYC]

2. Their own ad slogan is negative: 'Uh oh spagettios'

That is like 'uh oh brussel sprouts!'

[AlCzervik]

3. with franks...yum!

[Sporadicus]

4. They're Deliberately Bland in Order to Appeal to Small Children

At least that's their intent. Operating on the assumption that children's taste buds aren't fully developed, the makers of canned pasta deliberately keep their sauce very bland. Same thing with the limp dreck they call pasta. It doesn't work in all cases, however. My wife and I didn't buy into that theory and made foods available to our children that weren't 'toned down,' and they came to appreciate good seasoning at an early age. We bought some canned pasta once, just to have some 'convenience' food handy, but it went totally ignored and uneaten.

[johnnie]

5. I can't deal with the smell

I always think of cooked vomit when I smell that crap cooking. I will never allow that stuff in my house..lol.

[City of Mills]

6. I thought I was the only one

The smell actually makes me nauseous.