What do you do with week old spaghetti? Fry it with lots of cheese

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Alarmed-Shape5034@reddit

One of the worst documented cases of food poisoning was something like 6 day old spaghetti. I’m thinking it was left out at room temp, though? They then microwaved it prior to eating, ingested and almost died. You’re welcome.

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jacafeez@reddit

Damn dude I was craving spaghetti so bad one time in Mexico that I ordered it, took it up to the room, left it out overnight and ate it the next day. It had ants in it and I wanted spaghetti so bad I didn't even stop eating. I have a digestive system of a dog though. Ive never had food poisoning and have pushed that limit more than I ever should have.

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KavaKavoo@reddit

I repeat from another comment; What the FUCK is wrong with y'all?

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JaredIsAmped@reddit

You knowingly ate spaghetti with ants in it? Nothing but respect.

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Salohacin@reddit

Still not as bad as dildo ants.

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cardueline@reddit

Mmm, tangy black pepper

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SALTYxNUTZ12@reddit

Protein.

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BlueBlooper@reddit

Yeah you can freeze spaghetti for a while and still eat it but I think some guy ate pasta from 2002 earlier so idk. How long can frozen food actually last. Opinions vary

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BadGuy_ZooKeeper@reddit

I ate 9 year old frozen wedding cake w my husband when we found our anniversary cake. It was really good still! Lol

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KavaKavoo@reddit

What the fuck is wrong with y'all? Lmao

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5k1895@reddit

At room temp that makes sense, but assuming this has been in the fridge it should be fine. Might not taste perfect but edible

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OldDog1982@reddit

Even in the fridge, spore forming bacteria grow slowly.

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total_alk@reddit

Spore forming bacteria? You just mixed up two completely different kingdoms.

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Fonzie1225@reddit

Sure, but enough to be a problem in 5 days? 7 days is generally my hard limit for refrigerated pasta and I’ve never had issues.

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irrocau@reddit

After 5 days without a fridge it would definitely smell, why would he eat it.

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Alarmed-Shape5034@reddit

Everything was tested and they found the pasta, not the sauce, to be the contaminated source (B. cereus); at 10x higher than the concentration found in pasta tested previously. Had to be absolutely nasty. The fact that he microwaved it with all that bacteria in there really gets me. 🤢 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3232990/

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Puzzleheaded-Jury312@reddit

It's not the bacteria, it's all the waste they produced before the microwave killed them. Bacteria shit is *not* a food group! 🤢

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the_maddest_moose@reddit

I agree its not a food group but we also use waste products as sweeteners/medicines. Aspartame, which is in a large amount of products, is made from waste. We also make insulin and other things the same way by modifying e.coli to produce a waste product that we can eat or use as medicine

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KudosOfTheFroond@reddit

Well duh, it is called Asspartame. 😂

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Aaron1977@reddit

Ass-pastrami

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OldDog1982@reddit

It’s a bacterial toxin, which is not technically a waste.

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Deracination@reddit

> Bacteria shit is not a food group! 🤢 It's multiple food groups. Really, a lot of good food uses bacteria shit.

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electricjeel@reddit

I can’t image how fucking awful it must have smelled and tasted

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comeupandfightmethen@reddit

OMG

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Horacolo@reddit

FFS unbelievable

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Darkmurphy-X@reddit

So, you're saying 4 days, 23 hours is the limit.

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CervixTaster@reddit

You can test it and let us know.

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adwd40@reddit

There was a college student who left rice on his counter for like a week then ate it and died.

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BadGuy_ZooKeeper@reddit

I barely like using leftover rice (that's been refrigerated) the next day for fried rice.... Rice is so porous. Just eeking to let in any invaders

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ListenToKyuss@reddit

1 day old rice in the fridge makes the best fried rice though

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ItalnStalln@reddit

Par boiled and steamed is better. Chinese cooking demystified has a couple youtube vids on it. They say it's not necessarily better, but more like a restaurant. And it fries perfectly without being leftover. I personally prefer it for frying though. And it's infinitely better than absorption method for everything else

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daneguy@reddit

You got downvoted, but you speak the truth. Their method works best for me, and I've tried multiple methods.

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ItalnStalln@reddit

It was super popular before rice cookers for a reason. Became so ubiquitous that the term steamed rice keeps being used even when most people don't steam the rice. The absorption method is inconsistent within a batch let alone from between batches. The bottom is always gonna be wetter because that spends more time in water as it absorbs/evaporates. I've heard that fancy modern rice cookers that use fuzzy logic programming produce the same results, but they're expensive and one more thing to take up storage space.

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BadGuy_ZooKeeper@reddit

I know, that why I still do it .... I'm just not super psyched about it lol. If I ever get food poisoning I'll have only myself to blame cause I know!! I've even tried it with fresh rice and rice cooked same day but in the fridge for a couple of hours. nothing fries up better than the day old.... But the fried rice is so good....

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electricjeel@reddit

Like it had been left out at room temp for the full five days?

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vertigo90@reddit

Ye rice poisoning is a thing of you leave pasta/rice at room temp

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Known-Sugar8780@reddit

Been eating week old stovetop spaghetti since I was 4 or 5. I have gotten the shits a couple times, that is about it. Did not know people were out here dying from it.

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onamonapizza@reddit

Yeah I've definitely eaten spaghetti / lasagna that is more than 5 days old but I was smart enough to keep that ish in the fridge.

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PapayaDoc@reddit

The acid from the tomatoes give spaghetti sauce a pretty long fridge life. Meat will ruin that. Refried spaghetti is pretty great.

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OldDog1982@reddit

It’s the noodle part that spoils with Bacillus sp. and it produces a toxin. The acid has no effect on the toxin or bacterial growth.

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Therealluke@reddit

There was another one with two college students that left pasta out over night then one ate it and was dead by sundown. [Here is a great pasta story](https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/people-are-horrified-after-student-dies-from-eating-leftover-pasta/news-story/c8ef3bdcc72a9d17ec13924438e0146b?amp)

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Alarmed-Shape5034@reddit

Your link and mine are the same story. 🍝

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EyeCatchingUserID@reddit

Mental illness or what? I don't know how you could be hungry enough to eat that. That's like "I've been locked in here with nothing to eat for a week" level of desperation.

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BigBrownFish@reddit

Wasn’t this a student that found old spaghetti in a microwave?

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trelod@reddit

I can't fathom why someone would eat spaghetti + sauce that's been sitting out for 5 days. I mean I've been completely broke before but that's almost worse than dumpster diving

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CervixTaster@reddit

It's worse. At least in some bins you'll find fresher food.

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Efficient-Intern-793@reddit

Tomato based dishes are actually the most likely to contain food borne illness

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bOb_cHAd98@reddit

This is why i always freeze my leftovers.

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achingforscorpio@reddit

how'd he power through the smell it *had* to have

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vrjk8880@reddit

Yes definitely room temp

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MarinLlwyd@reddit

Didn't they know the 5 day rule?

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Standard-Style-4470@reddit

Ima try & keep that in mind

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Kyrase713@reddit

Was it refrigerated?

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pippitypoop@reddit

Bro who doesn’t refrigerate their food

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Kyrase713@reddit

That student that died from eating 5 day old spaghetti.

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Neither-Fan-747@reddit

Wow

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muscle_mommy89@reddit

Week old spaghetti? No thanks, I don't like hugging the toilet...

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indianna97@reddit

I hope this was frozen a week ago because thats fucking disgusting.

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BusterTheCat17@reddit

I throw out leftovers after 3 days. I ain't gonna eat that shit, if I haven't already eaten it by then. I know myself.

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camoure@reddit

Same here. But also because I once ate leftover chicken on the fourth day and I got very very sick. I knew it smelled funky, but dug in anyway because I am dumb. Now I take no chances and everything gets tossed on day 3

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FarAmphibian4236@reddit

Ewww just threw away 2 month old chicken from my crappy little fridge. Like, Feb 6 was the date on it, its April fools. It looked decent too, so I fed some of it to my pet roaches.

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martha_stewarts_ears@reddit

That is so overly cautious. Three days is not enough time for something to spoil unless you’re constantly cross contaminating your food. Plus, you tend to know by sight or smell when something is off.

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BusterTheCat17@reddit

I didn't say because it was gonna spoil. I said because If I haven't eaten it by then I'm not gonna eat it. I've moved on lol

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martha_stewarts_ears@reddit

Fair enough!

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test_tickles@reddit

I just ate 5 day old chili mac out of the fridge.

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BusterTheCat17@reddit

RIP to your lower intestines lol

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test_tickles@reddit

Doing fine 18 hours later.

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DemandImmediate1288@reddit (OP)

My (adult) son made it for us last Friday, and I ate off it every day either for work dinners or lunches before work. We have a really cold spare refrigerator that keeps things right above freezing so I wasn't too worried about the age of it.

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BusterTheCat17@reddit

Nice. I'm sure it was good if you couldn't stop eating it for a week lol I didn't mean to insinuate I wouldn't eat THAT, as in your food. I just mean I wouldn't eat the left overs in my fridge.

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Dodoz44@reddit

Week old spaghetti... heard something like that... what was it on... oh yeah, ChubbyEmu episode.

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vloonthepooldeck@reddit

My stomach hurts.

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Icoryx@reddit

Even if it was in the fridge I would throw it away. Food poisoning is not worth it

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Joanna_c_maccuci@reddit

That looks like it’d make me shit my pants

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Saiomi@reddit

Eat it and die like that Chinese guy. Did you store yours in the fridge? The Chinese guy did not.

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DemandImmediate1288@reddit (OP)

No it's been on the back of the toilet all week just waiting for it's moment. /S

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Saiomi@reddit

A man of culture

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newbie6789123@reddit

No throw it out Pasta over a couple days has to be trashed

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DemandImmediate1288@reddit (OP)

The sauce was a week old but stored in a semi-frozen state (we have a second fridge that freezes the top shelf, perfect for storing leftovers). The noodles were only a couple days old. I try to keep the pasta as fresh as possible as I don't like it when it gets all starchy and bloated.

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AbleDragonfruit4767@reddit

I fry mine with a lot of oil no cheesw

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crunchevo2@reddit

... Don't...

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CanadaEh97@reddit

Think I saw a ChubbyEmu video on this topic.

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crunchevo2@reddit

And then he died

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AnE1Home@reddit

I was just about to say this 😂

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CanadaEh97@reddit

"O.P. is presenting to the ER..."

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AnE1Home@reddit

Legit the exact words that I heard in my head when I got to the words “week old”.

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Heylookaguy@reddit

Put it in a casserole dish and bake it until it's a semisolid brick. That's called "hot dish" and it was a staple cafeteria food when I was in grade school.

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NotAllDawgsGoToHeven@reddit

There’s actually a dish similar to this where raw pasta is put in a frying pan with saw and is slowly cooked

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rhetorial_human@reddit

make a sammich... best hangover food in the universe.

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MorbidAtrocities@reddit

Uh you're supposed to throw leftovers out after a week...

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pippitypoop@reddit

Notice you said AFTER

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MorbidAtrocities@reddit

Who cares.

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pippitypoop@reddit

You… you’re also engaging in this thread

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MorbidAtrocities@reddit

Yeah and it's called I'm making a joke, friend.

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pippitypoop@reddit

☝️🤓

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MorbidAtrocities@reddit

????????? What

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pippitypoop@reddit

💃

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wallabyboppin@reddit

My grandma would do this with plain leftover spaghetti noodles after running out of sauce. She would just fry it with some butter, garlic, salt, and pepper. Sometimes it would be better than having sauce!

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bongdropper@reddit

This is the way

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TheOneInATrenchcoat_@reddit

We just witnessed someone unknowingly commit suicide.

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pippitypoop@reddit

You’re not going to die from refrigerated week old pasta. It’ll taste bad and also you’ll get a stomach ache or diarrhea if it’s spoiled. But if it’s refrigerated you’re not going to die. Those cases are from people who were morons and didn’t refrigerate their food.

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Hoodoutlaw2@reddit

no. you throw it out, make a new portion for less than $3, and not risk dying

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chaxnny@reddit

Or toss it in the garbage

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GrueneDog@reddit

I throw it away because bad pasta can literally kill you

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DemandImmediate1288@reddit (OP)

It's not like it was sitting out. I've been eating it all eeek

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Hopeful_Pear_8747@reddit

If food sits in the temperature danger zone (roughly room temp) for longer than 4 hours, it should be disposed of. If it’s put away promptly, it should be ok. I’ve eaten nearly week old spaghetti hundreds of times with zero issues. A big culprit here is pizza. So many people eat old pizza without a worry in the world. Keeping it hot or cold is key

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IceBoxt@reddit

Pizza is safer than rice or pasta though because the bread is meant to be dry and the moisture was baked out of it. Rice and pasta have moisture cooked into them.

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OldDog1982@reddit

The problem is he said he has been eating on it for a week. Every time you take it out of the fridge, it warms up a little. Bacterial grow very quickly.

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-Reusko-@reddit

in this house hold no such thing as leftovers let alone a week old spaghetti

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throwaway-74749@reddit

Just because you survived this time doesn’t mean you won’t end up in a hospital next time. Week old starchy food is insanely high-risk, even at just above freezing. It’s a horrible thing to experience, I’m only telling you this because I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.

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chihuahua_supporter@reddit

This looks and sounds like a hazard. Peace and love

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TresTigresTristres@reddit

![gif](giphy|Oj7yTCLSZjSt2JMwi2|downsized)

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ehoaandthebeast@reddit

Ad and egg or 2. make egg fried pasta lol

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babydollies@reddit

fried spaghetti with onions goes soooooo hard

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Wei5252@reddit

Throw it out

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bunnykitten94@reddit

![gif](giphy|SmoCFhZCi1kzu)

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Ok_Dependent3465@reddit

Throw it away ya tramp

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Chris_WRB@reddit

Nawwwww

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krakmunky@reddit

Wrong sub.

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_Goose_@reddit

I like my pasta noodles slightly crunchy. I do this with many of my pastas. Have you ever heard of spaghetti bruciati? It’s pretty much fried spaghetti but it’s an official dish.

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Nonamebigshot@reddit

I bake leftover spaghetti with a bit of ricotta and a mozzarella topping. So bad for you but so good

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Worth_Restaurant3725@reddit

Week old 🤢🤢🤢

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Dependent_Top_4425@reddit

RIP your intestines.

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DemandImmediate1288@reddit (OP)

I had the most beautiful toilet clogging shit this morning, thank you very much! Ready for the next challenge.

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abarcsa@reddit

I know what the name of the subreddit is, but please take better care of yourself. The toilet handling it does not imply your stomach handling it

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Dependent_Top_4425@reddit

I'm glad it all came out!

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Consider2SidesPeace@reddit

Yum! Fried spaghetti! Even better the second day. My mom's family didn't use cheese but I love cheese. I'd crush that plate.

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DemandImmediate1288@reddit (OP)

I added fresh grated Parm regg and a good dousing of garlic powder and a couple meatballs from the freezer...it was pretty damn good!

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Consider2SidesPeace@reddit

Solid chow, OP! Extras on point. My friend and I bought a cheap 30$ vacuum sealer. Homemade meatballs with no freezer burn for days! Bests~ n Buon appetito :) I'm on a franks n beans budget for dinner myself.

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Plastic-Lobster-3364@reddit

That looks... and sounds... incredible!! ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|stuck_out_tongue)

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mastershake20@reddit

Then you throw alot of crushed red pepper on it and BAM ✨depression spaghetti✨ it’s a classic dish & the spicy will help make serotonin.

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Elysium_Chronicle@reddit

For less greasy, scramble some eggs to bind it together into a sort of frittata instead.

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DallasRadioSucks@reddit

S'ketti Fritata

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vrjk8880@reddit

I definitely have done this in my stoner days

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DemandImmediate1288@reddit (OP)

This was me after a crappy 12 hr shift. Hungry and tired and willing to eat the last dregs of leftovers, but needed extras to make it a plate.

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Hopeful_Pear_8747@reddit

That piece in the bottom left corner looks bomb af the way the cheese is getting all crispy 🤤

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DemandImmediate1288@reddit (OP)

I had to use a steak knife to cut it.

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Hopeful_Pear_8747@reddit

My man! 👑

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Original_Jarl_Ballin@reddit

![gif](giphy|RYjnzPS8u0jAs)

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caramelthiccness@reddit

Fried spaghetti with extra onion and garlic and a sprinkle of cheddar is so good omg

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elboogie7@reddit

bro google says 3-4 days, max. be careful out there.

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Duke2daMoon@reddit

This was my go to in my early 20’s

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DorothyDrangus@reddit

Italian-American okonomiyaki

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boo_snug@reddit

Looks pretty good ngl

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