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The “Spaghetti Hoop Crop Circles” of Wendy S.

A container of hoop-shaped pasta in a perfect line around the edge of the container - a most bizarre ordering of the food.

  • Title: “Spaghetti Hoop Crop Circles”
  • Media: Hoop-shaped pasta. Commands from Outer Space?
  • Submitted by: Wendy S.
  • Long-time viewers of the MoFA may, at first, be thrown off by this photo. What seems so unusual about this nearly-empty container of pasta hoops? Instead of focusing on the bottom of the container, cast your gaze, gentle viewer, to the sides of this vessel. Yes, there you will see that the contents of this unnamed, pre-cooked pasta delight have been arranged (or arranged themselves?!?) into a disturbing degree of order. Is this a matter of self-aware pasta that is attempting to avert the view of someone wishing to dine on the pasta? Or, could this be the crop circle equivalent of packaged foods? The mystery is only beginning...

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  1. Comment Taelyn said on July 30, 2010 at 8:40 pm :

    haha is it bad that I had to read the full article before seeing what the picture was?? Or was everyone else a little confused?

  2. Comment eric said on September 14, 2010 at 9:52 pm :

    Self-aware pasta? Ha! SpaghettiOs are as much like pasta as Reality TV is like Reality… or TV!

    On a side-rant, I am glad that Campbell’s spells it “…Os” and not “…O’s”, with an incorrect usage of an apostrophe s (which incidentally drives me mad).

  3. Comment Frank said on September 30, 2010 at 6:05 pm :

    look like defective red blood corpuscles.

  4. Comment Denise S said on January 24, 2011 at 10:42 am :

    Or could it be the circle of life. Ha ha I love it!

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