Even the pasta is horrible. I don't know how you can screw up on pasta, but I guess you can.

We found the Chinese room so we can eat rice and wonton soup and spring rolls.

I'm sure he was being generous. My guess is that it was a horrible snap. It seems to crop up at the worst times.

Did you screw this up?

When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along with an FM broadcast of the overture to Rossini's 'The Thieving Magpie,' which has to be the perfect music for cooking pasta.

PASTA!!