April 3rd, 2009
#734 – Parmesan
Even though it was a classic image in movies and TV I never actually had spaghetti and meatballs as a kid. Apparently my brother and I had some sort of aversion to spaghetti sauce. My mom would make a traditional dish for her and my dad and set some noodles aside for the kids. We would then eat the noodles with a little butter and parmesan cheese. Weird.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 12:18 am
What did he expect if they left the ’s’ off the menu entry?
April 3rd, 2009 at 12:22 am
Epic. Win.
April 3rd, 2009 at 12:23 am
I’d like a doggie bag please.
April 3rd, 2009 at 12:31 am
Oh….my….god….
*drools all over keyboard*
April 3rd, 2009 at 12:51 am
I never did much care for meatballs.
April 3rd, 2009 at 12:53 am
I’ll have the meatball dinner with a small spaghetti on the side.
April 3rd, 2009 at 1:05 am
“Momma Mia! Das-a som-a humongous-a meat-ball!!!”
(An internetz to anyone who gets the reference…)
April 3rd, 2009 at 1:07 am
i do that to XD
April 3rd, 2009 at 1:08 am
I see he has the proper utensils to begin excavation
April 3rd, 2009 at 1:28 am
My kids eat spaghetti with no sauce all the time. Just butter and cheese. They have genetically superior arteries.
April 3rd, 2009 at 2:08 am
Ah, plain noodles with butter and parmesan. That was a staple of my sister and my diet as kids. Mom calls the “naked noodles”. I’ve since started eating it with sauce after getting sick from the butter one Christmas, but my sister still insists on eating them that way.
April 3rd, 2009 at 2:39 am
10 bucks says he will eat the whole thing.. and then have 5 feet of small intestine removed surgically…
April 3rd, 2009 at 4:57 am
Came to your comic from that guest strip you did for Steve Napierski over at Dueling Analogs. I’ve spent that past few months reading through the entire archive, love the comic, keep up the good work.
Also, Spaghetti has always been my biggest weakness. I was fasting for 3 days and almost made it the entire three days, but on the last night my mom made spaghetti for dinner…My resolve vanished in and instant.
April 3rd, 2009 at 5:34 am
LMAO!
April 3rd, 2009 at 5:54 am
My dad makes the best traditional spaghetti sauce, though it’s never with meatballs. It’s either Italian sausage (very spicy) or ground beef. I certainly never had an aversion to sauce, but my best friend ate it with butter and cheese instead of sauce.
April 3rd, 2009 at 6:00 am
Hot meatball!
@reynard61: Would I be correct in thinking “It’s-a him! Mario!”?
April 3rd, 2009 at 7:05 am
I love spaghetti. We don’t have meatballs, but I love my grandma’s spaghetti. She says it’s so good because she uses the Always Save sauce. Oh well, I love this comic and spaghetti. Oh! And pizza. Pizza…*droll*
April 3rd, 2009 at 7:09 am
@Trypno01 – Thanks for stopping by!
April 3rd, 2009 at 8:29 am
Those pesky noodles always got in the way of my meat sauce.
@reynard61: I am thinking “The Mask”
April 3rd, 2009 at 9:00 am
At our restaurant (I’m a line chef), we actually serve a pasta and meatball dish. Our meatball is impressive, but Biff’s still wins.
April 3rd, 2009 at 9:01 am
Ok, does ANYONE remember this Saturday Morning Cartoon back in the early 80’s where there were traveling musicians, and the guy was named Meatball and his girlfriend was Spaghetti (and then a third guy I can’t remember his name)? Circa ‘82 I think.
April 3rd, 2009 at 9:20 am
That’s how I still eat mine. Noodles with butter and parmesan.
April 3rd, 2009 at 9:22 am
I guess we weren’t as weird as I thought.
April 3rd, 2009 at 9:31 am
Holy carp, I’m hungry now.
April 3rd, 2009 at 9:34 am
BOOYAH! That looks great.
Ironically, that’s how my dad makes meatballs for spaghetti when I visit, now. They’re the massive- the size of frigging softballs or bigger…
dammit, now I’m hungry.
April 3rd, 2009 at 2:25 pm
I always salt my pasta water and put a little extra virgin olive oil on after cooking. Not only does it make them good with or without further condiments, it keeps leftovers from them turning into an un-appetizing cake of pasta goop.
April 3rd, 2009 at 2:44 pm
That’s how I ate my spaghetti as a kid, I wasn’t willing to try the sauce.
April 3rd, 2009 at 2:58 pm
I ate my spagetti with just butter and salt. When I was a little kid, my parents ate regularly at one Italian restaurant, and when they took me, the waiters knew to serve me spagetti in “butter sauce” with one softball-sized meatball.
April 3rd, 2009 at 3:29 pm
I work at an Italian restaurant, and it’s pretty common for parents to get a bowl of spaghetti with some grated cheese for their kids. It’s not that weird
April 3rd, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Phoenix of Chaos: “@reynard61: Would I be correct in thinking ‘It’s-a him! Mario!’?”
Nope.
Paul: “@reynard61: I am thinking ‘The Mask’”
Nope, but they share the same source.
April 3rd, 2009 at 4:29 pm
I didn’t eat meatballs ’cause my family didn’t eat beef. I didn’t like sauce either; I’d always have tons of cheddar cheese all over my noodles.
April 3rd, 2009 at 5:18 pm
@Chris Webcomics are my addiction, and this is fuel to the fire
April 3rd, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Dammit i want spaghetti now (although i find ground beef works better then meatballs)
April 3rd, 2009 at 6:22 pm
Mum usually makes her own meatballs (minced meat, diced onion and egg to keep it all together) but ours are small ones. Mum also usually makes her own spaghetti sauce – she has problems with reflux so we have to avoid most of the store-bought ones.
They’re usually really good, but I’m not a huge fan of pasta in general (except maybe gnocchi).
April 3rd, 2009 at 8:34 pm
@reynard61: THATS-A SPICY MEATBALL!!!
I was trying to think of some variation of that Alka Seltzer commercial, but your response was perfect.
I wasn’t even around for the original commercial showing. It’s just that classic a commercial. In fact, I’m surprised nobody got it!
April 4th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Wow……… thats a meatball to be proud of Biff….. *sniff*
April 4th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
ok, so I finally worked my way through ALL the Biff Comics (BTW, I lmao with the comment on #728 – Seat) and living in Europe I sometimes din’t understood all of it, but I liked it very much. Now I have another comic to keep up to date… (next to Noobcomic, cheerupemokid, xkcd, daisyowl and AlienLovesPredator… working my way through StationV3… will take some time…)
No seriously: I like the simple drawings, the humour (or sometimes the WTF-feeling) … I’ll be waiting for the next one…
April 5th, 2009 at 1:46 am
I used to eat plain spaghetti and parmesan too. nowadays though, I can’t get enough sauce and meatballs on my plate. my wife still takes hers plain though
April 5th, 2009 at 3:29 am
My partner and I must be the truly weird ones – we eat our spaghetti with butter and parmesan… AND with spaghetti sauce! Which way we have it depends mostly on what we’re in the mood for. The shock, the horror. We like both. I know, we must be sick in the head.
April 5th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
O_o that sail is awesome… WHY CAN’T I HAVE MONEY RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am so buying these books once i do have the cash though…
also: HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOOK OF BIFF!!!!!
*starts making Biff shaped birthday cake*
April 5th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
how bout that right now i am eating Penne and Meatball
April 6th, 2009 at 2:09 am
Sheesh, last time I ate spaghetti I was running out the door and just grabbed a handful from the serving bowl, no sauce, no butter, no cheese. I dropped the noodles into my mouth somewhere between the door and the car, and felt like some sort of baby bird. Though I’m not sure if that was because I dropped it from above, like worms, or if it was because I thought it felt like eating a bird nest. (I know baby birds don’t eat nests)
April 6th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
I used to do the same thing! I still do that to this day, sometimes. Mmm butter and Parmesan pasta.
May 14th, 2009 at 11:12 am
Spaghetti with butter is awesome! Parmesan cheese is nasty, though. My sister eats it that way, but I stick with butter and salt.
May 19th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
Spaghetti with butter is awesome too. I used to eat it with tomato sauce until I became allergic to tomato. I actually got sick of eating pasta after three months of eating it when I had a stomach bug. I lost some weight when I had that bug.
June 19th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
There is a restaurant in Des Moines, WA that actually serves their spaghetti like this (at least it looks that big next to a 6-year old)