Today In Wyoming's History: October 25:
Today is World Pasta Day.
Why, I don't know, but that's what it is. The University of Wyoming's American Heritage Center has a post up for today, October 25, 2012, on this event, and asks the question of whether pasta was part of your diet growing up. It was for me, fwiw, and I suspect for most other people as well, but not with the many fine varieties available today. "Macaroni and Cheese" was a frequent noon meal when I was a kid, and not the kind that comes out of a box. Indeed, I've never liked the box kind, which strikes me as somewhat anemic. Spaghetti was also a frequent at our house, which was the regular boxed spaghetti noodle type, with a red sauce made from tomato soup and with, typically, antelope or deer as the meat in the sauce. I can't ever recall having ground beef used in spaghetti sauce as a kid at our house. And macaroni noodles, i.e., elbow noodles, occasionally showed up in shrimp salad, which my mother occasionally made. And of course, there were canned "beenie weenies, etc." that had noodles in them.
I'm sure I didn't have any of what I would have regarded as exotic pastas, like lasagna, in a homemade example until I was in university. Otherwise, that was exotic restaurant fare.
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