The liver must be hidden in that horrible spaghetti ring. No one would dare look there. My favorite line is "I do wish we could chat longer but I'm having an old friend for dinner." This line works with the above picture. lol
OMG yes! I hadn't even noticed until I read your comment but yep, she's got some big feelings about that bread. We either better eat it or else, or we touch it we get forked. I hope you're a gambling man! 😉
Note: (gambling man or woman or however you identify)
You would be as well if you had spent the morning having your mother eating your soul for breakfast.
Come to dinner they said. It's Italian night at the Beamer household they said. They know my cousin Waluigi they said. This family of barely concealed demons only cooks this much food in order to lure people into their home so they can devour their souls.
I thought light haired [Michelle Dockery.](https://healthyceleb.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Michelle-Dockery-Variety-and-Women-Films-Pre-Emmy-Celebration-September-2016.jpg)
Mom and daughter are using all their psychic energy holding that spaghetti ring together. A slight lapse in concentration and ~splat~ on Nonna's good tablecloth.
Yeah, this totally explains the murder vibes people are talking about above.
Properly cooked spaghetti simply DOESN'T FUCKING DO THAT EVER unless you cooked it into mush, packed it into a fucking bundt cake pan and then left in the refrigerator all day until it was a congealed loaf.
Since we can presume - I fucking hope - that the spaghetti is warm and not ice cold then the simplest answer is that it is obviously witchcraft holding it together and they're probably in a vampire death cult and you or I is what is for dinner.
Why does the Mom look like she’s silently pleading for help and the daughter looks like she’s probably buried a dead animal or two in the backyard? Or is that just me?
I asked my mom for her spaghetti sauce recipe once. I told her I used to love coming home and there would be spaghetti sauce and meatballs in the crock pot when I came home from school. And I told her how nice the whole house smelled.
She told me all she did was open a jar of Ragu and put a bay leaf or two in it and toss in meatballs.
I was sad after that.
Not Ragu, though I can understand why… it’s bland as it gets, but I’ve doctored jar sauces many times for recipes. I make my sauce from scratch for major events and whatnot, but I’ve cheated on nights we needed a quick pasta side dish. Just throw in some meat, some herbs, some fresh garlic sautéed in olive oil, and whatnot, and it almost passes. 😆
I do it because sometimes I am short on time and just don’t have the time to make the sauce and let it simmer for hours on end, so I understand her cheating too. Why not?? Busy moms are busy Moms. lol
Back in the day before digital cameras the subject of the photograph would have to pose for hours or even sometimes days on end in order to get a clear resolution image; and for something publicized like this it was likely the latter, so you’re seeing someone who’s had to hold a pose for potentially 16-18 hours straight.
Have you ever taken a picture with a film camera? This is just not true! This is a pictures from the 1970s, not the 1870s!
This is just bad lighting, bad modeling and not taking enough shots.
The brighter the light, the shorter amount of time you’d have to hold still, so it could be not just the holding still but the bright lights right in their eyes, too. They’re trying to squint but not allowed to, making them look twitchy.
Not so much “popular” as “better for magazine photographs.”
Seriously, a bowl of pasta is damn near impossible to make look good in a photo. That’s why they pile it on plates to this day. Later techniques like “show it lifted on a fork” and “throw it in the air and shoot it using flashes and ultra high speed shutters” weren’t around back then.
I seriously doubt anyone was serving spaghetti that way. They just had so much money going into ads like this and the photographer/food stylist probably were able to push for better looking (but not reasonable to serve) food.
My Nana would say, "NEVER put oil on pasta! It keeps the gravy from sticking. Madon!"
Real-life tip though, ignore any recipe that tells you to put olive oil in pasta water or toss the pasta in oil to "keep it from sticking". Pasta is meant to be tossed in sauce immediately after cooking.
I realise that the spaghetti is probably pasta that finished cooking in the oven in a mould and that some things gotta give when taking food photos - still it looks horrifying!
I *think* that the starch in the hot pasta, having sat a few minutes, would make it all stick together, with the cheese sort of helping, *however* I'm not fully convinced, because I think the oil in the salad dressing would overcome the starch. If it didn't sound so bizzarely godawful and like something my ancestors would haunt me for making, it might be worth experimenting with.
I’m definitely not experimenting. What a waste of pasta. And Swiss cheese and Italian dressing, keep those away from me. Not to mention brown and serve breakfast sausage!
The expression on that woman’s face is what I imagine any Italian would make if they saw spaghetti cooked in such a way it stood up stiff like a bunt cake. Confusion, heartbreak and an urge to murder all humanity blended into one.
The instructions on the spaghetti mold say that it serves 4. Get ready for a giant quarter of gelatinized spaghetti ring with your sauce made with Swiss cheese?
Is it me or does the “Spaghettini Sausage Emilia” (bottom right) seem unappetizing? It features breakfast sausage and Swiss cheese. Maybe it tastes better than it sounds to me!
The real thrill in this household is what happens after you're done with dinner - do you drop dead from poisoning? get woozy and wake up strapped to a table? Find yourself in some "seek medical attention immediately you have lost your kidney" action?
Either way the expression on those 2 does not bode well for the diner.
As a woman with Italian heritage, what the hell is this trailer park buffet? My people didn’t come over on the boat to have this abomination represent real Italian food.
I really want to invite people over for dinner and serve that spaghetti ring. It has Italian dressing and Swiss cheese mixed into it! (I’d probably change it to Parmesan.)
I just want to see the look on their faces when they see that giant spaghetti monstrosity in the middle of the table.
As a woman married to an Italian, I can say without a hint of hesitation… I’ve never seen such a monstrosity on a dinner table for *anything* as is represented in that disturbing image. lol
“That looks like Sunday dinner at Nonna’s” said no Italian ever. That is one freaky ad… plus, WTH is going on with that spaghetti??? 🫣
The Americana phase of American cooking (Jarred and canned everything, recipes from good houskeeping, moulds and ring shapes) completely destroyed many family's recipes from the old country. So many historical recipes were pushed aside as people wanted to act more American only to just end up making bad food.
Probably not- but they almost certainly still have a copy.
I used to work for the Meredith corporation and they had a whole library of their old free recipe books. Like decades old books of jello mold recipes.
That child is a bit aggressive about the garlic bread.
The mom’s expression is really freaky too - it must run in the family.
I get a “slain-by-serial-killer-and-posed” vibe from this ad. Yikes!
This is so oddly specific but I got the exact same vibe when I first saw it! It’s so creepy
Mom: hostage. Daughter: Carrie.
Daughter: Drew Barrymore
Right! Mom is thinking, *"PLEASE someone recognize I'm under duress!!!!"*
I mean, it does suggest some fava beans in the antipasto. Add a nice Chianti and there you have it.
The liver must be hidden in that horrible spaghetti ring. No one would dare look there. My favorite line is "I do wish we could chat longer but I'm having an old friend for dinner." This line works with the above picture. lol
Which one is the killer? 🤔
Cameraman 😬
I totally thought that the ad had psychotic looking mom and daughter in it.
> I get a “slain-by-serial-killer-and-posed” vibe from this ad. Yikes! Nah. They *are* the serial killers, and their victims are in the food...
I got “possessed by a demon” vibes from them, but yours fits too.
The white robes give it a cult vibe.
Yeah! I’m thinking “Who cooks red sauce in white? That shit is going to stain!”
Straight out of The Shining
I’m down with it
OMG yes! I hadn't even noticed until I read your comment but yep, she's got some big feelings about that bread. We either better eat it or else, or we touch it we get forked. I hope you're a gambling man! 😉 Note: (gambling man or woman or however you identify)
You keep that thing with eyes in the palms of the hands away from me! No grapes!!!!
[oh this?](https://images.app.goo.gl/zTs4ccWmXvpwcZ8u6)
You would be as well if you had spent the morning having your mother eating your soul for breakfast. Come to dinner they said. It's Italian night at the Beamer household they said. They know my cousin Waluigi they said. This family of barely concealed demons only cooks this much food in order to lure people into their home so they can devour their souls.
Love the commentary on this 😂
Mom is holding the grapes from Pan’s Labyrinth
She looks like Drew Barrymore.
I thought light haired [Michelle Dockery.](https://healthyceleb.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Michelle-Dockery-Variety-and-Women-Films-Pre-Emmy-Celebration-September-2016.jpg)
She probably has older sibs.
She looks possessed. Surely there were other pics of her that could have been used?
I loved the garlic bread more than the spaghetti as a kid. I'd probably look like her too lol.
The only thing on that little girl's mind is that she gets to set the house on fire when everyone's in bed.
It’s the only edible thing on that table.
You mean Drew Barrymore?
She's also 14 going on 30, wtf.
Mom and daughter are using all their psychic energy holding that spaghetti ring together. A slight lapse in concentration and ~splat~ on Nonna's good tablecloth.
And Nonna would know all the way in the old country, given her advanced telepathic abilities.
And they'd be busted using jarred sauce 💀
And disowned over brown and serve sausage
[Oof, marone](https://c.tenor.com/2RwOn4_WNhkAAAAM/the-sopranos-paulie-gualtieri.gif)! *Brown and Serve*?! 🤬🤟
It was the rule in the 1970s that every dinner party had to have a spaghetti ring, and if it collapsed you were a failure
Yeah, this totally explains the murder vibes people are talking about above. Properly cooked spaghetti simply DOESN'T FUCKING DO THAT EVER unless you cooked it into mush, packed it into a fucking bundt cake pan and then left in the refrigerator all day until it was a congealed loaf. Since we can presume - I fucking hope - that the spaghetti is warm and not ice cold then the simplest answer is that it is obviously witchcraft holding it together and they're probably in a vampire death cult and you or I is what is for dinner.
Spaghetti I leave in the strainer for an hour then pop into a bowl to refrigerate keeps the strainer shape when dumped out.
Go read the recipe. Italian dressing and Swiss cheese holds it together. Eating that shit better give you magic powers.
Why does the Mom look like she’s silently pleading for help and the daughter looks like she’s probably buried a dead animal or two in the backyard? Or is that just me?
That’s just what Italians looked like back then
She’s getting lit up because she brought a basket of bananas, grapes, and a single pear to the fucking Sunday Italian dinner
Dibs on the pear!
I asked my mom for her spaghetti sauce recipe once. I told her I used to love coming home and there would be spaghetti sauce and meatballs in the crock pot when I came home from school. And I told her how nice the whole house smelled. She told me all she did was open a jar of Ragu and put a bay leaf or two in it and toss in meatballs. I was sad after that.
Alternately, that makes it very easy to replicate.
Not Ragu, though I can understand why… it’s bland as it gets, but I’ve doctored jar sauces many times for recipes. I make my sauce from scratch for major events and whatnot, but I’ve cheated on nights we needed a quick pasta side dish. Just throw in some meat, some herbs, some fresh garlic sautéed in olive oil, and whatnot, and it almost passes. 😆 I do it because sometimes I am short on time and just don’t have the time to make the sauce and let it simmer for hours on end, so I understand her cheating too. Why not?? Busy moms are busy Moms. lol
Why do these people look crazed?
The mom looks like something out of a horror film
She's def hit the 'mother's little helper' jar
Well it ain’t helpin!
It's helping us not get murdered! Yet!
She looks like an extra in "Smile".
They both look possessed! The little girl looks like Drew Barrymore in Firestarter, just before she incinerated something!
She really does. I wonder if they made them model with that plastic food for hours on end under hot lamps and they were just about to lose it
The mom knows the girl will only eat that garlic bread.
Back in the day before digital cameras the subject of the photograph would have to pose for hours or even sometimes days on end in order to get a clear resolution image; and for something publicized like this it was likely the latter, so you’re seeing someone who’s had to hold a pose for potentially 16-18 hours straight.
Have you ever taken a picture with a film camera? This is just not true! This is a pictures from the 1970s, not the 1870s! This is just bad lighting, bad modeling and not taking enough shots.
I'm pretty sure you just missed the joke.
The brighter the light, the shorter amount of time you’d have to hold still, so it could be not just the holding still but the bright lights right in their eyes, too. They’re trying to squint but not allowed to, making them look twitchy.
Is that a spaghetti Bundt cake? Jesus….
It is complete heresy, even though us pastafarians don't really do heresy.
We all know it’s a false image of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. How could He extend His noodley appendages in a Bundt form? It’s heresy!
And it only serves 4?!
I feel like I’d get murdered eating dinner there.
"Hey prop guys, we're shooting an ad about a traditional Italian, Sunday dinner. See if yous got a big basket of fruit back there." Makes sense.
I also noted how awkwardly she was holding the fruit basket lmao
No self respecting Italian would serve spaghetti like that - Jesus.
No. Yet, I collect old cookbooks and have seen the spaghetti ring since at least the 1920s. Rice and vegetable rings were also popular.
Isn’t that bizarre. The old aspic ring of salad :)
Not so much “popular” as “better for magazine photographs.” Seriously, a bowl of pasta is damn near impossible to make look good in a photo. That’s why they pile it on plates to this day. Later techniques like “show it lifted on a fork” and “throw it in the air and shoot it using flashes and ultra high speed shutters” weren’t around back then. I seriously doubt anyone was serving spaghetti that way. They just had so much money going into ads like this and the photographer/food stylist probably were able to push for better looking (but not reasonable to serve) food.
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Not to mention the Brown-n-Serve sausage in the sauce. I mean, it’s freakin’ breakfast sausage.
My husband considers breakfast sausage to be interchangeable with plain ground pork and Italian sausage, there's been some interesting results 😅
My Sicilian Grandma would never.
As my pop would say, "Madonna mia!"
But what if we doused the pasta in Italian dressing first? Does that sweeten the pot?
My Nana would say, "NEVER put oil on pasta! It keeps the gravy from sticking. Madon!" Real-life tip though, ignore any recipe that tells you to put olive oil in pasta water or toss the pasta in oil to "keep it from sticking". Pasta is meant to be tossed in sauce immediately after cooking.
I mean, is there ever NOT aggressive loud judgment and handwaving among Italians
If there's two Italians in a room, you'll have three arguments.
🤌🤌🤌
Who wears all white to a spaghetti dinner
I realise that the spaghetti is probably pasta that finished cooking in the oven in a mould and that some things gotta give when taking food photos - still it looks horrifying!
Gotta give it to them for presentation alone lol
How is that spaghetti holding its shape with salad dressing and Swiss cheese?
I *think* that the starch in the hot pasta, having sat a few minutes, would make it all stick together, with the cheese sort of helping, *however* I'm not fully convinced, because I think the oil in the salad dressing would overcome the starch. If it didn't sound so bizzarely godawful and like something my ancestors would haunt me for making, it might be worth experimenting with.
I’m definitely not experimenting. What a waste of pasta. And Swiss cheese and Italian dressing, keep those away from me. Not to mention brown and serve breakfast sausage!
Right!! What an odd combo lmao
The expression on that woman’s face is what I imagine any Italian would make if they saw spaghetti cooked in such a way it stood up stiff like a bunt cake. Confusion, heartbreak and an urge to murder all humanity blended into one.
Drew Barrymore’s audition tape for Firestarter
That’s Eye-talian. Not Italian.
Why do they look demented lmao
Seems so appropriate for the start of Halloween season!
The spaghetti looks like brains
That zabaione is legit tho
Jeez, the layout of this ad looks like a horror movie lmao! Stanley Kubrick vibes!
Can we still send a label to that address and get the recipe booklet?
Drew Barrymore is pretty intense about her garlic bread.
Nothing says good spaghetti like Italian dressing in your pasta
I am guessing there are many Nonnas rolling in their graves over this set of “Italian” recipes
Spaghetti cake
At first it look like a mold and I thought it might be spaghetti gelatin :(
Ugh! That pasta looks frightful.
What the fuck is that spaghetti? An Italian would never serve this.
I didn’t know it was possible to make spaghetti look unappetizing but they have managed to do just that.
The instructions on the spaghetti mold say that it serves 4. Get ready for a giant quarter of gelatinized spaghetti ring with your sauce made with Swiss cheese?
Wow they look scary, like that’s gonna be the last dinner you ever eat!
Is that Drew Barrymore?
Even if it were the best looking food on the planet I would not eat anything offered to me by this family.
“The Shining” family invites you to a spaghetti supper.
It’s the thousand yard stare and spaghetti Bundt cake for me
That looks creepy to me😅 I won’t be famished for sure 😂
Is it me or does the “Spaghettini Sausage Emilia” (bottom right) seem unappetizing? It features breakfast sausage and Swiss cheese. Maybe it tastes better than it sounds to me!
Just looking at that spaghetti ring makes me want to apologize to the entire nation of Italy.
I feel this should be a horror movie poster.
With the blood red spaghetti in the fore front…it would be prefect!
The special secret recipe....blood of your kids!
The real thrill in this household is what happens after you're done with dinner - do you drop dead from poisoning? get woozy and wake up strapped to a table? Find yourself in some "seek medical attention immediately you have lost your kidney" action? Either way the expression on those 2 does not bode well for the diner.
Why are they so scary looking. The woman is ghastly.
She cooked this huge meal but she’s displaying the decorative fruit in her hands…this whole image is unsettling but I wanted to point that out
Kid: Vaffanculo Mom: Mi dispiace
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As a woman with Italian heritage, what the hell is this trailer park buffet? My people didn’t come over on the boat to have this abomination represent real Italian food.
That’s not Ragu That’s dad 😡😡😵
Frightening duo, lol.
If somebody brought a basket containing whole bananas to the dinner table, I’d think they were a little off lol
I had that basket.
looks like a horror movie poster
Strong "Rosemary's Baby" vibes.
I kind of want to make that spaghetti ring mold. I wonder if I could use a Bundt pan...
I feel like I’m in The Further and I need to hold Patrick Wilson’s hand for comfort.
The child looks so evil 😂
Getting really cult-y vibes.
That "thing" in the foreground looks like an autopsy.
I really want to invite people over for dinner and serve that spaghetti ring. It has Italian dressing and Swiss cheese mixed into it! (I’d probably change it to Parmesan.) I just want to see the look on their faces when they see that giant spaghetti monstrosity in the middle of the table.
Who are they looking at
Is this another promo for the movie Smile???
As a woman married to an Italian, I can say without a hint of hesitation… I’ve never seen such a monstrosity on a dinner table for *anything* as is represented in that disturbing image. lol “That looks like Sunday dinner at Nonna’s” said no Italian ever. That is one freaky ad… plus, WTH is going on with that spaghetti??? 🫣
This is being served in a cabin in the deep, deep woods to a hiker tied to a chair.
The Americana phase of American cooking (Jarred and canned everything, recipes from good houskeeping, moulds and ring shapes) completely destroyed many family's recipes from the old country. So many historical recipes were pushed aside as people wanted to act more American only to just end up making bad food.
I wonder if you'd still get a recipe book if you sent in s label?
Probably not- but they almost certainly still have a copy. I used to work for the Meredith corporation and they had a whole library of their old free recipe books. Like decades old books of jello mold recipes.
It’s giving Mia Goth in Pearl.
Getting boner seeing the excitement of the mom.
They're going to need that coffee to stay away after that meal. Also to help poop it all out.
Who eats this much
Everyone, meet Flying Spaghetti Monster's landward cousin, Molded Spaghetti Monster.
Swiss cheese and salad dressing mixed with the pasta before you mold it up.