Penne preponderance
June 3, 2010emily No Comments »One thing that I saw on menus across England was penne all’arrabbiata. If you’re even remotely a fan of Eddie Izzard, you’re already laughing. If you’re not, by all means, acquaint yourself with his Death Star Canteen bit (and then you must also watch the Lego version). In an interview I heard, Izzard talks about how he came to think that Darth Vader would be able to order penne all’arrabbiata on the Death Star in the first place. Apparently in the ’80s, in the doldrums of British cuisine, restaurants and pubs across the country started to offer penne all’arrabbiata on their menus. It was everywhere, apparently, and you couldn’t get away from the stuff. Nor could the purveyors be prevented from trying to serve their penne all’arrabbiata with all manner of things, like gravy (hence the reference to peas in Death Star Canteen). All of which is to say, I was sorely tempted to order penne all’arrabbiata each time I saw it on an English menu while we were over there, but I honestly didn’t think I could make it through the ordering process without giggling unabashedly. “Oh, alright, put some peas on there.”
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