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Guess what, Will? What's that, that mango? I was reading about spaghettios last night doing a deep dive because that is how I spend most of my Wednesdays.

Yeah, what else would you do? Nothing of course, but did you know that

SpaghettiOs which came out in the 1960s wasn't the first spaghetti in a can?

I did not.

It's so bizarre to me.

Apparently for a few decades before you could get a tin of sauced up spaghetti,

but it was always super mushy and no one could get the consistency right to last on the shelf.

That is until Campbell's figured it out in the 1960s and once they had this new pasta

technology they combined it with the popularity of

Cheerios so that kids could eat their pasta in a spoon, which was a brand new

novelty food for the world. You know if there's one thing I feel like my kids have missed out on is the fact that they've really not experienced things like

spaghettios and those real raviolis and all the different forms of Chef Boyardee treats.

I definitely had my share of them as a kid.

But actually, I'd never thought about Cheerios

being an inspiration for spaghettios,

but I guess they both have owes in the name, so now it all makes sense.

I know, there's a whole world of like, I don't know, my kids haven't had like Hamburger Helper or like all these other.

Right.

Yeah, what are we doing?

The funny thing is about how SpaghettiOs was marketed

and the ads are pretty great.

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