DEAR MISS MANNERS: In reading about an operetta, I discovered that a scene which took place at a wedding included a joke that virtually all the wedding presents were spaghetti scissors.
At first, I assumed the notion of spaghetti scissors was an invention of the librettist, but then I began to wonder: Were spaghetti scissors once actually sold as a piece of cutlery that one could add to one’s kitchen utensils?
GENTLE READER: It is a joke. Cutting one’s spaghetti with scissors -- while certainly an amusing idea -- is best left to comedians, not polite society.
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