Baked spaghetti was a fixture of my childhood, quietly omnipresent across the Midwest and South — never flashy, never fancy, ...

The effect is thanks to the physical properties of the pasta - you can bend it a lot before it ultimately snaps. So when it does snap, there's a lot of stress within the spaghetti as it springs ...

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