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(Spaghetti is a long, thin form of pasta. It is versatile, popular, and available throughout the Western world. Spaghetti is the plural form of the Italian word spaghetto, which is a diminutive of spago, meaning "thin string" or "twine". The word spaghetti can be literally translated as "little strings.")* For almost every occassion Filipinos love to eat spaghetti. Though this cuisine has a western origin, we came to love its distinctive taste. Every family or every person has their own style of cooking spaghetti. Some like it sweet while others like it spicy. Some use tomato sauce while others use banana catsup or both. I like my spaghetti in thick sauce but others prefer their sauce a bit diluted. There are also variations regarding the size or kind of pasta used. As I observed, almost any kind of pasta is now being used for spaghetti. "While many believe that spaghetti (or even pasta in some accounts) originated in China (where long thin noodles have a lengthy history), some now assert that the reading of a lost Marco Polo manuscript which lead to this belief, was in fact an inaccurate Latin translation. Historically people in Italy ate pasta in the form of gnocchi-like dumplings - 'pasta fresca' eaten as soon as it was prepared. It has now been asserted that the Arabs who populated Southern Italy (around the 12th Century) were the first to develop the innovation of working pasta from grain into thin long forms, capable of being dried out and stored for months or years prior to consumption."* Spaghetti has been passed on from generation to generation. This dish is passed on like a torch in a marathon. Every household in the Philippines knows how to prepare this dish. Others learned it form their parents. Some learned this through school or friends. Spaghetti brings out the child in every Filipino. During birthdays, parents would prepare this noodles in red sauce and topped with cheese. As a kid, once you tasted it, you'll ask for more and the moment will never fade away up until you become an adult. So everytime old folks eat this dish, memories come back to life and a smile will come out on one's face. *wikipedia.com