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OnDaFence 36M/44M
44267 posts
10/16/2018 7:00 pm

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10/17/2018 6:15 pm

National Pasta Day!!!



October 17 is National Pasta Day!



Pasta is one of the world's most favorite foods! It's delicious, it's nutritious, it's versatile. It can be enjoyed as a main course, or as a side dish. Top it with your favorite sauce and "Mangiamo " - let's eat!



Spaghetti, lasagna, rotini, tortellini - there are over 600 known pasta shapes.



Pasta's origins are ancient. Contrary to popular belief however, Marco Polo did not discover pasta in Asia and bring it to Italy. In fact, in 1279 a.d., a will drafted by Ponzio Bastone was found bequeathing a storage bin of macaroni when Marco Polo was still in the Far East.



Early Romans used a very simple flour and water dough. Pasta is the Italian word for dough.



Thomas Jefferson introduced pasta to the Americas after first tasting it in Naples, Italy. He was the American Ambassador to France at the time. In 1789, he brought the first pasta machine, along with crates of macaroni, back to the United States.



Pasta became a common North American food in the late 19th century with the surge in Italian immigration.



Celebrate National Pasta Day this October 17th with your favorite bowl of pasta!

OnDaFence 36M/44M

10/16/2018 7:03 pm

We'll be celebrating it for sure!


OnDaFence 36M/44M

10/16/2018 7:04 pm

Just off hand i know we have pasta at least once a week.


OnDaFence 36M/44M

10/16/2018 7:06 pm

I might fall short here on my blogging at chatting I am to have my IV m,eds now twice a day and with harvest & Mutts I can only do noon & midnight...


OnDaFence 36M/44M

10/16/2018 7:07 pm

Just my "free time" is getting eaten up!


Hungr4Yungr 75M
5766 posts
10/16/2018 9:13 pm

Love pasta, but am working on fried rice this week. Glad to hear that harvest is continuing for you. It is resuming here too after 5 weeks of wet, snowy weather. Crop quality is way down.

I was in to the hospital for some tests today, and a camera was inserted into my bladder, where it discovered a 1 1/4" bladder stone. It is going to be surgically removed as soon as a date can be set up. It has been causing me a lot of unnecessary grief for about two years. Glad the urologist finally found it.


OnDaFence 36M/44M

10/16/2018 9:41 pm

    Quoting Hungr4Yungr:
    Love pasta, but am working on fried rice this week. Glad to hear that harvest is continuing for you. It is resuming here too after 5 weeks of wet, snowy weather. Crop quality is way down.

    I was in to the hospital for some tests today, and a camera was inserted into my bladder, where it discovered a 1 1/4" bladder stone. It is going to be surgically removed as soon as a date can be set up. It has been causing me a lot of unnecessary grief for about two years. Glad the urologist finally found it.
Sorry to hear about you getting "stoned" This will be a pleasurable Pasta Day. We are trying to keep the grain flowing from the fields.


jrodd 65M
4396 posts
10/17/2018 3:39 am

Yes but you forgot ,today is the day up in "OH Canada" if you swivels the "d" letter backwards in the word Canada. You get to add great new legal spice to your squiggly cheesy noodles and it aient basil or oregano maun !Thus we gets noodles shapes in out hair like dreadlocks MAUN! If you get the drift we gets duh National what Cheech n Chong likes DAY. Day -o- DaaaaaaYO!Yes it starts now October 17th/2018 maun! Don't you know? Sheesh we are making world history here! sorry Hungr4yungr yup rid that bad stone and git some good doctor approved legal stone for your pain afterwards ,lol Mayby ill try some hemp seeds in those meatballs too,lol!


OnDaFence 36M/44M

10/17/2018 8:07 am

    Quoting jrodd:
    Yes but you forgot ,today is the day up in "OH Canada" if you swivels the "d" letter backwards in the word Canada. You get to add great new legal spice to your squiggly cheesy noodles and it aient basil or oregano maun !Thus we gets noodles shapes in out hair like dreadlocks MAUN! If you get the drift we gets duh National what Cheech n Chong likes DAY. Day -o- DaaaaaaYO!Yes it starts now October 17th/2018 maun! Don't you know? Sheesh we are making world history here! sorry Hungr4yungr yup rid that bad stone and git some good doctor approved legal stone for your pain afterwards ,lol Mayby ill try some hemp seeds in those meatballs too,lol!
As long as they don't slip up and try to cross the border with some and meet up with our vaunted border patrol like in the days of prohibition with the Volstead Act.


OnDaFence 36M/44M

10/17/2018 6:15 pm

The guys got Angel hair pasta with meatballs and garlic bread for dinner tonight. They ate the whole dam thing! Nothing left for the dogs.


DandR4hands4men 54M/54M
946 posts
10/22/2018 9:15 pm

I couldn't live without pasta. It beats meats and desserts for me!