Spaghetti-Os Discontinued As Franco-American Relations Break Down

<a href="http://www.theonion.com/4001/top_story.html" title="The Onion | Spaghetti-Os Discontinued As Franco-American Relations Break Down">Spaghetti-Os Discontinued As Franco-American Relations Break Down</a>: &ldquo;The international dispute casts a pall over the proud and storied history of Spaghetti-Os. A symbol of trans-Atlantic friendship dating back to 1965, the canned lunchtime staple began as a cooperative effort between U.S. president Lyndon Johnson and French president Charles de Gaulle, who shared the conviction that the convenient pasta meal was a delicious and nutritious way to maintain good Franco-American relations.



&ldquo;From 1965 to 1968, a panel of top U.S. food engineers painstakingly developed the four sizes of Os while France&rsquo;s most esteemed chefs developed the distinctive tomato-and-cheese sauce. When finally unveiled at a White House dinner, Johnson hailed Spaghetti-Os as &lsquo;the zesty, flavorful glue that holds our two nations together in peace.&rsquo; Subsequent development of meatball and sliced-frank varieties of the product only added to its enduring mythos.



&ldquo;After years of mutual amity, however, the Age Of Spaghetti-Os may have finally come to an end. More fuel was added to the fire earlier this month, when U.N. Secretary Of Quick-Heating Prepared Foods Stefan Fredriksen openly questioned the Franco-American venture in the November issue of <em>Bon Appetit</em>.&rdquo;