15 tear old pasta

I bought a package of spaghetti years back because the noodles where 18", long and the label looked cool. The package itself was simply a large piece of blue butcher paper that had been wrapped around a bunch of noodles, and cellophane taped closed with a colorful, old country-looking label. I thought it would be fun to cook them up and roll them on a fork. Because of the length however, there was no suitable container to store it in and I'd ended up placing the package on a high shelf in the kitchen. After a while it became a decorative object and was never opened.

I moved into my place in 1992. I know that I purchased the spaghetti not long afterwards. Today, I was making room for some liquor bottles and decided the pasta package had seen it's days. The blue paper had long ago faded to a dull gray, and the label had lost its charm. Out of curiosity I opened the package expecting to see the remains of weevils and powered pasta but to my surprise the noodles looked perfectly fine. I did a google search to see if there were any comments about the safety of old pasta and discovered an article out of Greece about grocery stores selling pasta that had past it's expiration date in the mid-90's.

I boiled up a bunch and ate them with olive oil and garlic. They were delicious. I'm still here to write about it.