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Take Marjie Stout, of Tampa, FL, who, to her surprise, recently found herself throwing together a bunch of spaghetti tacos. "I'd never heard of them," she told Slashfood -- but her eight-year-old daughter Sophie, an iCarly fan, had a craving. So how were they? Depends whom you ask. Sophie dug them. Marjie, on the other hand, pronounced them "kind of messy and weird."
Take Marjie Stout, of Tampa, FL, who, to her surprise, recently found herself throwing together a bunch of spaghetti tacos. "I'd never heard of them," she told Slashfood -- but her eight-year-old daughter Sophie, an iCarly fan, had a craving. So how were they? Depends whom you ask. Sophie dug them. Marjie, on the other hand, pronounced them "kind of messy and weird."
Messy and weird they may be. Nonetheless, Syracuse University professor of popular culture Robert Thompson said the spaghetti taco has the air of inevitability about it -- "sort of like chocolate and peanut butter running into each other on that Reese's commercial," he told The New York Times. Plus, they've "made it possible to eat spaghetti in your car," he said. "It's a very important technological development."
Are they here to stay? It's too soon to tell whether they'll be the longest-lasting contribution that iCarly makes to popular culture. But right now they're making a serious foray into the tween foodie world, and no one is more surprised than iCarly's creator, Dan Schneider. "It was just a little joke I came up with for one episode," Schneider told the Times. "Then it turned into a running joke. And now it's this thing people actually do."
If you think it's something you (and your inner 12-year-old) might actually do, too, check out the official recipe. Or just wing it. Because, really -- despite all the hype, folks, it's just spaghetti in a taco shell.
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10-08-2010 @3:21PM jd said... My 8 yr old asked for these after watching iCarly too. I made them for her and they have become a family favorite! It's the only way my 3 yr old will eat spaghetti! Try them, you might like them!
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10-08-2010 @3:31PM bvllets said... This is awful.
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10-08-2010 @4:17PM diane said... I agree. Nasty. Why in the world does JDs three year old "have" to eat spaghetti anyway?
10-08-2010 @3:34PM Tanne said... Really are you such a loser you have to berate food? You are irrevelvant.
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10-09-2010 @6:05PM Digi said... LOL I love the convenient ad placement of the products used. As if it would have been so hard to say use a different brand or a generic white box that said speghetti. And of course they pic the most expensive, most comercialized product (cept the prego, I love the stuff and cant imagine how it would EVER taste good on a taco shell with hot sauce).
Personally this is one of the worse 'meals' I have ever seen made especially targetting kids. Complete junk food plus I cant imagine how a more.....'adult' pallette could stomache such a combination of random crap. I mean Why even use taco shells if you're gona go through the effort of making speghetti and sauce? Plus that pic they use really makes them look more like noodles and ketchup, or tomatoe paste. I eat Prego sometimes and its not that ...ketchupy. Im betting they used ragu or something but could only get Prego to pay to advertise....
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10-08-2010 @5:22PM shir said... What a DISGUSTING combination! One poster said "..."This is the only way my 3 year old will eat spaghetti"... WT??!!? If my child "DEMANDED" this type of food at such a young age then I know I would be feeding my child inappropriately. No child should eat this type of garbage. What ever happened to fruits, veggies and an occasional sweet treat here and there. No child this young should know about junk, crap food. I guess you can thank the crap shows on TV and the parents who lack serious parenting skills by letting their child watch these stupid shows.
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10-08-2010 @5:21PM shir said... This is DISGUSTING!! ..."This is the only way my 3 year old will spaghetti"... ??? WT??!! Sounds like an unhealthy, fat and spoiled little brat!
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10-08-2010 @5:07PM TJA said... why the hell did i not think of this.......sounds GREAT.....soon as I can I am going to make some. It's good to see that theThe American Melting Pot is at least working for food because it sure as hell isn't working with our citizens
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10-08-2010 @5:28PM Alex said... LOVE:
The bad taste in your mouth is from that black soot that grows inside your fridge and your bathroom. It's called mold and it has been proven to get inside the brains of peopkle. Go to the Dr., maybe it's not too late for you and your cousin boyfriend. For the kids it is too late but it's called genetics, not mold
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10-08-2010 @5:42PM Janey said... My daughter made these years ago! She thought she would open a fushion resturant based upon this idea, well too late!
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10-08-2010 @5:47PM Barry said... Back in the 1950s in Pocatello, Idaho we had a drive-in that served taco spaghetti (taco flavored spaghetti sauce). My dad used to take us there at least once a month. Great combination of flavors.
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10-08-2010 @5:50PM John said... We had two choices at each meal when I was a kid; take it or leave it! With a family of seven to feed, my mom made it clear she was NOT running a restaurant and we ate whatever she cooked or we didn't eat. It's amazing how when faced with those options, even a picky eater will decide it's better to eat than to go hungry until the next meal. Kids are only picky eaters when their parents allow them to be.
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10-08-2010 @6:59PM marilyn erickson said... I use left over mashed potato for potato tacos, my family loves them and they are great.
guess you can taco out just about anything
marilyn
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10-08-2010 @6:58PM jbjg24m said... i like trying new receipes, gonna give them a tryout this w/e ! Mexican and Italian are my two fav meals
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10-08-2010 @7:28PM Dee said... Spaghetti tacos looks a bit gross, but it may taste good, however, my son made up a recipe years ago with a similar twist - Taco spaghetti -- it's a much more complicated recipe, but looks and tastes awesome and was a real kid and adult pleaser in one :) I've since seen similar recipes in cook books -- too bad we didn't patent it back when he originally created it!
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10-08-2010 @7:53PM Chuck said... LOOKS DISGUSTING!!!!
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10-08-2010 @7:43PM MJL said... I think a spaghetti burrito would be less of a mess to eat and you could use chunky garden vegetable sauce too.
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10-08-2010 @9:44PM Eat It said... Experimenting by mixing foods and flavors from different cultures makes cooking and eating fun and involves the whole family. IMHO parents should train kids with a varied diet and encourage them to try new tastes. May help prevent obesity and prevent more picky-eating adults who torture servers in restaurants. BTW interesting product placement in this story/ad...wonder whether Kraft, BGS, General Mills, ConAg and Goya paid a fee or if it was random. Well, why not, rock on capitalist ad men while ye may.
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10-10-2010 @1:48PM Anne said... And they wonder why we have an epidemic of fat kids....
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10-13-2010 @10:53AM Cathleen said... Wow! How about filling that taco shelf up with something healthy instead of pushing more garbage at kids. Childhood is where they learn eating habits. It might be good to at least be part of the solution to childhood obesity as opposed to part of the problem. http://newsy1.wordpress.com
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