There’s pasta — the national food (or something) of Italy that describes dishes like cacio e pepe, spaghetti alla nerano and, of course, bolognese — and then there’s whatever Robert Pattinson told GQ he was thinking about nuking in his microwave.
< shudder >
Our own Joseph Longo, himself of Italian descent, opted to make his ancestors turn over in their graves by making Pattinson’s version of microwave pasta — a recipe that somehow calls for both cornflakes and a hamburger bun — and it wasn’t pretty (or tasty).
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