Spaghetti Tacos!
On an episode of the hit Nickelodeon series “iCarly,” the lead character’s eccentric older brother, Spencer, makes dinner one night. Glimpsed on screen, the dish consists of red-sauce-coated pasta stuffed into hard taco shells. What could be more unappealing?
When Julian Stuart-Burns, 8, asked his mother to make the tacos one night, she simply laughed. “I thought he was joking,” said Jennifer Burns, a Brooklyn mother of three. “But then he kept asking.”
That punch line has now become part of American children’s cuisine, fostering a legion of imitators and improvisers across the country. Spurred on by reruns, Internet traffic, slumber parties and simple old-fashioned word of mouth among children, spaghetti tacos are all the rage. Especially if you’re less than 5 feet tall and live with your mother.
Hot damn. Whenever I eat spaghetti at home, I'll butter two slices of bread and make a sandwich with my spaghetti, but this looks even better. And the fact that it's mere mention can bring up George Costanza only makes my heart flutter more:
Perhaps the nearest pop-culture equivalent — that is, a sitcom artifact that thrives in the real world — is Festivus, an alternative to Christmas introduced on a 1997 “Seinfeld” episode, Mr. Thompson said. Festivus now has a number of real adherents.
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me: whadyaeat tonight, dad?
dad: I don't know.... nothing. I don't remember.
me: you need to eat, dad. you need protein. a lot of it, every day.
dad; I think I ate the spaghetti that was in there.
me: did you eat the meat that was sitting on it?
dad: no.
I might try making tacos with meat.
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