A question for my American F-list

[dizzojay]

I want to pick the brains of my American F-listies for a drabble I'm currently writing ...

Any help you can give me will be very much appreciated!


My question is ... has there ever been a product in America that's equivalent to Britain's 'Alphabetti Spaghetti', and if so, what was it called?  I'm thinking specifically of a Wee!chesters scenario, so I'm taling about the early/mid eighties here.


Thanks in advance ...

Comments

[blackrabbit42.livejournal.com]

Yes. We have Spaghettio-s and Meatballs with Alphabet Pasta. Hold on. I actually have a can *blushes and hides her dieitian credentials*....

Yes. It's called "Spaghettios, Meatballs, A to Z"

:)

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

Ah, thank you so much! :)
*Points to gif*

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

And now I'm hungry!

[blackrabbit42.livejournal.com]

You're welcome!

:)

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

Well hello there to you and your spaghettios :)
x

[firesign10.livejournal.com]

Hahaha you're adorable!!

[septembers-coda.livejournal.com]

I like blackrabbit's answer (I LOVE Spaghettios. I can't eat stuff like that most of the time now, but if I could, I WOULD EAT THEM ALL THE TIME.)

But I was going to say Campbell's had an alphabet soup that was popular when I was a kid and teenager, which would have been the 80s. It was just vegetable soup with letter-noodles. I remember spelling stuff with noodles fairly often. :-)

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

I don't think we ever had anything like that. I certainly don't ever remember having it ayway.

[just-ruth.livejournal.com]

Vegetarain Vegetable - the alphabet soup.
My mother used it many times to make what she called "College Hamburger"
1 lb. ground beef
1/2 of a medium sized-onion chopped
1 can Vegetarian Vegetable condensed soup
1/2 soup can of water
1/2 soup can tomato juice
1 T Worchestershire sauce

Cook beef and onion in large skillet, stirring constantly with metal spatula until onion is clear, beef brown and more of the lumps broken up.
Add other ingredients, bring up to simmer stirring everything in thoroughly.
Serve over mashed potatoes or hamburger buns

[blackrabbit42.livejournal.com]

Just wanted to add in here that in our house, we call them "alphabet-os"

And SC is right, we also have alphabet soup. From time to time, I see alphabet pasta (dried, like the kind you cook yourself) at the grocery store. But if you are thinking of Wee!Chesters, then Spaghetti-os, are what you're looking for.

:)

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

Spaghetttios it is!
Thank you :)

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

I'd never heard of Spaghetti-os before I started reading fanfic - or tomato rice soup, or gummi worms. Whoever said SPN wasn't educational?


PS Dizz, I've lost the email with this week's SPN100 word - what was it please?

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's very educational - I can add Wheaties and Gumbo to that list too!

The word this week is scale.

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, eat your wheaties.... Scale! Of course it was.

[just-ruth.livejournal.com]

There was also a teeth-achingly sweet cereal called Alpha-Bits - criticized by people with too much time on their hands for not having a "Q"

found the packaging for the '70's

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

NNow I'm going to be wondering why it hasn't got a Q ...
so much nostaaligia from one simple question - I love it!!!

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

ha ha ha but surely the Q's little tail would just get knocked off in the box... They should have said that.

[just-ruth.livejournal.com]

I am pretty sure that Post did say something like that, of all the silly things to complain about.

[fairyniamh]

Something that the Weechesters would have seen growing up:



I can see wee Sammy wanting his SkabbetiO's (what I have grown up listening to little kids call the product)... and they are extra good, cause he can learn his ABCs too.

Can see him saying the tag line for the product (during the 80s) every time he made a bit of a mess with them. Tag line was: "Uh Oh, SpaghettiO."

Yes, I have hundreds (possibly thousands) of 80's commercials stored in my noggin. The tootsie roll and tootsie pop will forever be my favorites though.

[auntmo9.livejournal.com]

How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of A Tootsie Pop?

I came here to say just about everything everyone else has said 😄

Uh, oh, Spaghetti-O!


Yep, I have a bunch of those commercials ( and the TV shows they kept on the air) in my head too.

[fairyniamh]

I don't know, ask Mr. Owl. XD

Don't get me started on TV shows (and their jingles.) It's amazing how much stuff we store from our childhoods.

*walks away softly singing* 'The world looks mighty good to me, cause Tootsie Rolls are all I see.'

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

It's funny how those sorts of things make an impact on you as a child - I guess that's how advertising works. But I can remember so many adverts from my childhood, far more than I can remember as an adult!!

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Me too - remember the Super Timpo Wild West Train? Cup hands, here comes Cadbury's? Only the crumbliest, flakiest chocolate....

[just-ruth.livejournal.com]

My favorite commercial from Canada that can't be found on YouTube

How do you like your coffee?
I like my Coffee Crisp!
You like your Coffee Crisp?
I like my Coffee Crisp!
Crispy Wafer biscuit, crunchy when you bite
Sweet creamy center, coffee flavored right
Smooth yummy coating, Roundtree's special knack
Coffee Crisp! It's a nice light snack.