Despite its pasta appearance, spaghettieis is dessert.
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While dessert spaghetti is fictional (most of us eat it with carbonara or marinara), it's genuine.
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Ironically, this meal wasn't invented in Italy or the North Pole.
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"Spaghetti ice cream," since "eis" means "ice cream" in German, was invented in 1969 by a Mannheim chocolate shop.
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The meal is similar to the "Elf" sugar bomb, but it doesn't utilize noodles.
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Vanilla ice cream is pushed through a potato ricer or spätzle machine to form spaghetti-like strands "pasta".
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Spaghetti Eis Co. says Germany sells 30 million cups of the amusing dessert, and it has spread globally.
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Spagheis were invented in Germany by Dario Fontanella.
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