SpaghettiOs
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SpaghettiOs is an American brand of canned spaghetti that consists of small, circular pasta shapes, suspended in cheese and tomato sauce. Besides the plain (pasta and sauce only) version, other varieties of SpaghettiOs include miniature meatballs or franks (processed meat that resemble slices of hot dogs). They also offer themed pasta shapes, often of cartoon characters, and RavioliOs, which are round ravioli filled with beef. SpaghettiOs with meatballs are probably the most well-known variety of the brand[citation needed], the one most often featured in advertisements[citation needed]. SpaghettiOs are marketed primarily to children and their ads famously feature the "Uh-oh! SpaghettiOs!" jingle sung by Jimmie Rodgers.[1] The product was also advertised to parents for its being less messy than standard spaghetti.
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[edit] History
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It is rumored[by whom?] that the original recipe for this dish was created in Pozzuoli, Italy, around 1884, by a member or members of a family who later emigrated to Brooklyn, New York and acquired the name Kirby. A friend of the family, who later became a product developer at Franco-American, is thought[by whom?] to have obtained the recipe. SpaghettiOs were once a Franco-American brand, which was purchased by the Campbell Soup Company in 1915. It is now uncertain whether a Kirby ancestor or Kurt Eberling, Sr., the German-American employee, invented them.
[edit] Advertising
On 19 October 1965, SpaghettiOs were introduced on television by pop singer Jimmie Rodgers, who had hits in the 1950s with such songs "Honeycomb", "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine", "Oh-Oh, I'm Falling In Love Again", "Secretly", and others:
- The neat new spaghetti you can eat with a spoon: Uh-Oh! SpaghettiOs
"Uh-Oh" was a phrase that was repeatedly sung by Rodgers in "Oh-Oh I'm Falling in Love Again" (The "oh-oh" is pronounced "uh-oh"), so the tie-in was a natural. Kids loved to sing the ubiquitous jingle, and grown-ups took note. The catchy and memorable jingle launched SpaghettiOs, and customers remembered it when in supermarkets. SpaghettiOs have now been on store shelves for over forty years.
Paul and Storm, a comedy duo, parodied the product with their "rejected" commercial jingle: "Franco-American SpaghettiOs: Show them your 'O' face."[1]
The three types of pasta used in SpaghettiOs are anelli, anellini and occhi di pernice.
[edit] United Kingdom
A similar product is available in the United Kingdom; for example, Heinz produces "Spaghetti Hoops in Tomato Sauce".[2]
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[edit] References
- ^ Wyman, Carolyn (2 September 2004), Better Than Homemade, Quirk Books, p. 125, ISBN 978-1931686426
- ^ Heinz Spaghetti, H. J. Heinz Company, http://www.heinz.co.uk/products/heinz_spaghetti.aspx, retrieved 2009-04-26
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