Long Spaghetti - Where’s it gone?

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In an easy win for my secret Santa this year, I want to talk about long spaghetti.

The spaghetti you get in supermarkets isn’t long. I remember say early 2000s that you used to get very long spaghetti in the supermarkets. Where did it go?

Why has it vanished? What caused the seemingly simultaneous disappearance of it from everywhere? It wasn’t a brand, you got long Asda branded spaghetti and king Tesco branded spaghetti. Why isn’t it around anymore?

I know about the rare frosts in Italy in 1999 which meant spaghetti harvests were reduced but it’s never come back.

My missus reckons I’m mad, but it existed. Where’d it go?
 
I think Sir David Attenborough did a documentary about it a couple of years back as part of a Panorama special on endangered food plants, something about it all being basically clones of one variety that had been cultivated from a wild strain to appeal to the Italian market, but that made it extremely susceptible to a fungal blight meaning that it was no longer possibly to grow it in the open. I think he said the only remaining examples were in bio isolation, with samples kept in the seed banks in the hope they could find a cure for the blight.
 
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Ask an actual Italian. I expect you can still get it from independent places, I've seen it around for sure (I mean in kitchens and on cooking TV etc)
 
Werewolf said:
I think Sir David Attenborough did a documentary about it a couple of years back as part of a Panorama special on endangered food plants, something about it all being basically clones of one variety that had been cultivated from a wild strain to appeal to the Italian market, but that made it extremely susceptible to a fungal blight meaning that it was no longer possibly to grow it in the open. I think he said the only remaining examples were in bio isolation, with samples kept in the seed banks in the hope they could find a cure for the blight.
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Got a source for this? Sad if true, it does always seem a few silly scientists have to ruin it for everyone. I appreciate that it's human intervention that caused it and that past a certain point it can be negative, but isn't this one of the things that can be solved with GM? Perhaps this is something we can raise a petition for, I'm sure if enough letters are sent to the EU then they'll need to do something, and if not then maybe more drastic action? Not volunteering to storm the gates but maybe in a group the sword is in fact mightier than the pen, eh?
 
It’s down to modern commercial demand. Demand is so great that it has to be harvested at a younger age now to fulfil demand.

Have you thought about growing your own?
 
I left home in 1998, so have done my own shopping since then and I've never heard of 50cm spag. It wouldn't fit in my backpack anyway that I use for carrying shopping. The usual 30cm spag is about right, alongside with 2L coke/lemonade bottles, ketchup bottles etc as they all fit ok.
 
Just LOL if Long Spaghetti isn't the name of your new indie rock-indie-pop guitar band who will sound exactly like you expect them to.

e: noobs.

real e: don't go Googling for 'long spaghetti' unless you're ready for long spaghetti strap dresses which are spicy as all heckers! PG16!!

imagine if freefaller called you and he was wearing spaghetti straps and also listening to Long Spghetti, the indie-rock-indie-pop band you just heard about, i mean what is a boy supposed to do?
 
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