Was it ever possible to get spaghetti in the old wild west?

[madinmaryland]

Funny, but the only thing I could get at the Spaghetti Western Restaurant was Mexican food.

:wtf:

[Kali]

1. give me a dollar

I give you a plate of beans!

[struggle4progress]

2. Yes, spaghetti was a favorite trail diish in the Old West, due to the easy availability

of noodles and tomato sauce. However, it was usually made with whatever meat was available: buffalo or groundhog or bear or squirrel were often used. The practice of serving spaghetti with an bottomless salad bowl is modern: salad, in the Old West, was spurned as wabbitfoo. But our habit of eating breadsticks with spaghetti originates from the so-called "breadbricks" of the Old West, delicious blocks which were so hard that people often broke their teeth on them

[madinmaryland]

3. Nice post, Elmer Fudd! "wabbitfoo"

:P

[struggle4progress]

4. "Well, after a week hidin out in Rattlesnake Canyon, so the gals would all think we

we'd been busy workin, we was sorta dirty and hungry, so we went back to Lily's Lost Garter for some real chow and a hot soak. The place wasn't near full, so we sat us round the big table and ordered up garden salads and sasparilla sodies for everybody"

You never read shit like that in Old West histories -- cuz people who ordered salad got plugged

[amerikat]

5. I had spaghetti in St.. George Utah once. Horrific.

Not even edible. When the cashier asked me how my meal was I said,
"If you served that in NJ and called it Spaghetti, the mafia would
hunt you down and kill you". I guess I was a bit harsh.

[guitar man]

12. Harsh?

No, not at all, you're correct. I don't think anybody with a restaraunt out there has a clue of how to make spaghetti. If it was like the undercooked noodles with ketchup they brought me in New Mexico or the dried up hamburger balls and ketchup on overcooked dough strings I got in Arizona or......

:grr:

[dimbear]

6. You could get it, but it cost a fist full of dollars.

With meatballs, a few dollars more.

[Lucinda]

10. Applauds!

:)

[datasuspect]

7. yes, but they used to call it spaghettini

they had hamburg steaks (modern hamburgers, except with no buns) and frankfurters (like modern hot dogs, but an actual juicy, garlicky German sausage, not dissimilar to knockwurst).

[old mark]

8. In parts of the Wild West, they had Chinese food, although probably

not like we have today...


mark

[Rabrrrrrr]

9. Almost impossible - penne was the "in" pasta back then. Spaghetti would get you spurned.

[pinboy3niner]

11. Only if you were Good, or Bad, or Ugly...

:evilgrin:

[Amerigo Vespucci]

13. Well...Val Kilmer feeds spaghetti to the dog in "Tombstone"...

...although they were in "The Oriental," so maybe it was "noodles," but a LOT of modern-day Chinese restaurants USE spaghetti for chow mein noodles because it's CHEAPER.

So my guess is "yes," but if you ordered "pasta al dente," it would probably mean someone would shoot you and drag your trendy butt out to Boot Hill.

:rofl:

:toast:

[madinmaryland]

14. Val Kilmer got the tombstone on DU? I didn't realize he was a troll.

:shrug:

[backwoodsbob]

15. hell yeah

Olive Garden was a must with the ole timey 49"ers