Communist Spaghetti (MyLot Exclusive #1576)

@xander6464 (40891)
Wapello, Iowa
April 5, 2024 2:05pm CST
Before I get deluged with questions like, "Sir, Just WTF is 'Communist Spaghetti?' Could you, for the love of God, stop with the indecipherable coded messages and just start writing in plain English that anyone can understand?," I should explain, yet again, that I never write coded messages. And I would never write them, even if I knew how. Which I don't. Because I'm just a simple country Greeting Cards Salesman, not a fancy big-city Cryptographer. To answer your question, "Communist Spaghetti" is just a proposed dish at the equally proposed Time Ghost Restaurant. Indy Neidell mentioned it in a video this morning and I instantly recognized it as a title that had to be used. See? "Communist Spaghetti" is just as simple, innocent, clear, and uncoded as, "Little Bo Peep has Found Seven Sheep with Russian accents. Repeat, Seven Sheep. Two of them have fangs." It's just routine. Nothing at all to be concerned about. If you're like me, and I know I'm not your Life Coach but I will remind you, anyway, that if you're like anyone else, you're wasting your time, you're hoping that the Time Ghost Restaurant gets up and running soon. Partly because I really want to try "Communist Spaghetti." But mostly because it sounds like the sort of place that will have Cigarette Girls. I don't know if you've noticed the last few times you were in a nightclub or restaurant, but Cigarette Girls are getting hard to find and I miss them. I suppose, given the times we live in, the Cigarette Girls at the Time Ghost Restaurant will have to also have vape supplies. And Edibles, which are a perfectly natural match for a restaurant. Because you want your customers to be as hungry as possible. It's the same reason many bars serve free peanuts and pretzels. Because they make people thirsty. And if a Cigarette girl offered me 10 milligram Chocolate Covered Strawberries, it would take the edge off not being allowed to smoke inside and get me in the mood for my Super-Sized order of "Communist Spaghetti." With that in mind, let's go to a little earlier this morning, and see what the Cosmic Universal Anthem History Video Of The Month Club Video For Today is. ************** Italian Communists, The French in Indochina, and the fate of Italy’s army - WW2 - OOTF 34
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@sabtraversa (13004)
• Italy
5 Apr
I should be studying this stuff soon, seriously. And I should have guessed it had to do with Italy but at first I thought spaghetti was slang for 'mess', like a tangled mess. But then it could as well be 'communist noodles', now that sounds Chinese.
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@xander6464 (40891)
• Wapello, Iowa
6 Apr
You're pretty much right. Communist Spaghetti was used to describe Italy right after WW2, when the Italian Communist Party (PCI) gained prominence. It was a very big political mess that scared the Allies and pretty much the same thing was going on in China, which could be described as Chinese Noodles. If you keep thinking like that, you're going to write a lot of "A" papers and impress a lot of professors.
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@sabtraversa (13004)
• Italy
6 Apr
@xander6464 Aww, thank you! I don't know what happened right after WW2, except for the foundation of the Republic. So I'm looking forward the Communist Spaghetti. I know external forces influenced Italian politics quite a lot, and probably still do, although the most infamous period I can think of would be the 'Years of Lead'.
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@xander6464 (40891)
• Wapello, Iowa
10 Apr
@sabtraversa I don't know much about any period of Italian history but I think it would be fair to call Anni di Piombo, the Communist Spaghetti Part 2. Because the Red Brigades played a pretty big part in it and it was very messy and tangled just like the post-war years.
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@LadyDuck (459052)
• Switzerland
6 Apr
Weird to use spaghetti to name the Communist Italian Party. South of Italy was not communist at all. The most communist region has always been Emilia-Romagna, so call that Communist Prosciutto.
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@sabtraversa (13004)
• Italy
6 Apr
@LadyDuck Yeah, the South is probably straight anarchic. Liguria seemed to wink at Communism too, but Bologna in E-R is definitely the most popular. I'll suggest Communist Lasagna to 'hold onto' the pasta.
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@sabtraversa (13004)
• Italy
7 Apr
@LadyDuck Yes, lasagne is more correct. The other day I read a post in a Facebook group of mostly Italian Americans that said "today I plan on being as useless as the G in lasagna". They don't even know how to pronounce the "gn", these barbarians.
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@LadyDuck (459052)
• Switzerland
7 Apr
@sabtraversa I agree "Communist Lasagna" the best, well at least let's say it the "Italian style" lasagne and not lasagna.
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@FourWalls (62429)
• United States
6 Apr
I thought all spaghetti was communist because it has RED sauce…..
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@xander6464 (40891)
• Wapello, Iowa
6 Apr
Have you ever noticed that Italy even put red on its flag? It's like they don't even have the decency to try to hide their Commie inclinations!
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@RasmaSandra (73704)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
5 Apr
Just out of curiosity Do you know what I get when I search for Communist spaghetti? I get Spaghetti Westerns Get on lil doggies
@xander6464 (40891)
• Wapello, Iowa
6 Apr
That's not a bit surprising because Franco Nero, who played the famous character “Django” in the seminal Spaghetti Western movie of the same name (1966) also used the term to describe the genre. Because they appealed mainly to workers who wanted to change the world the way the characters in the films did.
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