While going through the archives, I ran across this creation from May 2012. I thought it was so hilarious that I decided to share it again. Enjoy!
Here is the insanity that is Spaghetti Subs!
Just in case you were wondering if you were seeing things, never fear. There is canned spaghetti mixed with corn on that sandwich. You aren’t insane.
It’s okay to laugh. Really. Just let it all out. We have seen some crazy crap on this blog, but this has to be one of the weirdest.
When we get something like this, you really, really start to wonder about mid-century test kitchens. I mean, really.
Really.
Really!
AuthorRetroRuth
From Family Circle Magazine
Tested Recipe!
[cooked-sharing]
Heat spaghetti, corn and liquid, and Parmesan cheese in a medium-size saucepan, stirring often, until bubbly-hot.
Put each roll together with cold cuts, sliced cheese, onion, and pickle relish; top with hot spaghetti mixture. Wrap in a big paper napkin for eating.
Ingredients
Directions
Heat spaghetti, corn and liquid, and Parmesan cheese in a medium-size saucepan, stirring often, until bubbly-hot.
Put each roll together with cold cuts, sliced cheese, onion, and pickle relish; top with hot spaghetti mixture. Wrap in a big paper napkin for eating.
Notes
See, you thought I was insane one, and just making things up to get you to visit my blog, but here is the proof that not only am I sane, but at one time this was printed in a cookbook. Who’s the crazy one, now?
Wait, it still might be me. After all, I actually made this nonsense.
This little wonder comes from the ever-amazing reader, Veg-o-matic. This recipe was on the same page in a cookbook as Veg’s gelatin submission. And as crazy as that gelatin submission was, these subs were even more nuts. “Oh, and those Spaghetti subs really need to happen,” Veg wrote in the submission email, “At your house. Not mine.”
Oh, you had better believe they’re happening.
This is a pot full of crazy right here. Canned spaghetti, parmesan cheese, canned corn AND the liquid from the canned corn.
As if canned spaghetti wasn’t goopy enough on it’s own.
This is a hot dog bun filled with provolone, salami, relish and red onion.
Oh, Lordy.
Ha ha ha.
Ha ha ha ha!!
Bwaha ha ha hah ahahAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
*Snort* Okay, okay. I’m good, I’m good.
This is Tom thinking about how bad his life is.
THIS is how messy that stupid thing was.
This is Tom trying to crank down on a sandwich that should, by all rights, be eaten with a spoon. Or at least a knife and fork.
Even though I don’t normally do this, here is the second bite. Notice the noodles running down the inside of his hands. The corn trying to go up his nose.
The aftermath of the second bite. Most of the noodles have jumped ship, and really only corn remains.
“So,” I said after I moved the camera to a safe distance, “how is it?”
“Not awful.”
“Well. That’s a ringing endorsement.”
“How about this: They don’t taste as bad as they look.”
The Verdict: Not bad. They were far too messy to enjoy properly, but in all actuality they weren’t that bad. Tom ate the rest of his and then made another sandwich with meat, cheese and relish on it and dipped it in to a bowl of the spaghetti/corn mess. It was much neater that trying to eat it like a sub.
Like the idea. If it was my wife’s spaghetti and sauce it would be a keeper.Eat it all day long. But not caned. I remember grade school spaghetti. Lets just say I edited this 3 times.
That sandwich looked yummy before all the glop! It would have taken a whole lot more parm for me to even attempt it after the corn & spaghetti. Cheese* makes most things** better.
I have just realized that I’m a fan and regular reader of blogs whose authors do awful stuff so that I don’t have to! Does that make me smarter than the average bear or a big ol’ yeller chicken? I don’t know the answer to that, but there’s definitely a lot of laziness involved as well, though.
*NOT American cheese, though, which is not cheese.
**Things that aren’t made better by cheese can be improved with chocolate.
I think you need to have a third person on hand to take a picture of YOUR face at you watch Tom eat. Would add a whole new level of hilarity to this!
Good lord, words fail me
Wait, got it: happy 4:20!
It looks like it was a really bad day in the school cafeteria…
I’m glad to say that the passage of time has not dimmed one bit, the utter insanity of this recipe!
Although I have always been taught that it is polite to say nothing at all rather than something unkind, I simply cannot help remarking that this concoction is most incredibly foul in appearance. My apologies.
If the hot spaghetti/corn mix had been put on the cheese side of the sub, would the melting cheese helped the spaghetti stay in the bun better? Would be worth a try….
When did they start manufacturing canned spaghetti? I’m assuming this recipe is from the 70’s? Did they have canned spaghetti then? Also, I’d be down for a spaghetti sandwich, but not with the relish and sliced meats…
chef boy ardee started making canned spaghetti in the 1950s franco American started their line with spaghetti-os soon after
(“canned mac an cheese anyone?) ironically campbells soup owns them both now
Not sure if that’s Good child hood memories or bad 70s flash back.
I walked down the flash back isle at Winco today . Velveeta on one side (no need to refrigerate) and Spam (eternal meat) on the other. If I could find Tang to wash it down I would have picked some up and fried it for dinner. Spam and “cheese”!
Well, Twincats, now I have to know what other blogs you follow.
Heinz began making canned spaghetti in 1926. http://www.heinz.co.uk/en/products/pasta/ranges/spaghetti/spaghetti-in-tomato-soup