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Spaghetti has become an iconic dish in more than one way. Pasta, for one, is what people think of spaghetti when they hear the word. Italian cuisine, for another, is what people think of where spaghetti comes from. Learn more about this fantastic dish with these 30 spaghetti facts.
- 01Spaghetti noodles average between 25 to 30 cm long.
- 02Italians each consume on average around 28 kg of spaghetti per year.
- 03Italy alone produces an estimated 1.43 million tons of spaghetti per year.
- 04Statistics estimate Italy could produce up to 3 million tons of spaghetti.
- 05On average, Italy exports only around 74,000 tons of spaghetti per year.
- 01Circumstantial evidence suggests that the ancient Greeks may have had dishes similar to pasta.
- 02The Talmud makes the first historical mentions of pasta in the 5th century A.D.
- 03The Arabs brought pasta with them to Europe during the Muslim Conquest of Sicily during the 9th and 10th centuries.
- 04Sicilians developed the first recognizably-modern spaghetti noodles during the 12th century.
- 05Spaghetti and other pasta became a staple food aboard exploration ships from the 15th to 17th centuries.
- 06Spaghetti truly became popular with the mass production of spaghetti noodles in the 19th century.
- 07Italian restaurants brought spaghetti with them to the USA at the start of the 20th century.
- 08A Canadian company in the 1920s claimed that Marco Polo originally brought spaghetti with him back from China in the 13th century.
- 09The British TV series Panorama featured a hoax about Spaghetti Trees in Switzerland on April Fool’s Day in 1957.
- 10A California restaurant holds the world record for the largest spaghetti bowl, by filling a swimming pool with 6,251 kg of noodles.
- 01Spaghetti comes from the Italian word spaghetti, derived from spago, meaning “thin string”.
- 02Spaghetti noodles use a different kind of flour made from durum wheat instead of common wheat.
- 03Thicker variants of spaghetti noodles have the name spaghettoni, while thinner variants have the name capellini.
- 04Nutrients in spaghetti include B vitamins, carbohydrates, fiber, iron, potassium, and protein.
- 05Spaghetti Western was coined because of how Italians own and produce these films.
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