The Foulsome and Disgusterous Dahl (continued)

Earlier, we looked at Dahl's revolting representation of the 'snozzcumber' in The BFG. We saw how it made children look at food negatively and learned that (surprise surprise!) children are not particularly keen on vegetables. I will now be looking at another well loved classic by Dahl, "The Twits." (1980) It tells the story of a hideous and horrid couple called 'The Twits' who play cruel practical jokes on one another out of hatred and spite. The food which is represented in this book is possibly more horrible and negative than in any other of Dahl's books. When we are introduced to the twits, we are made know of Mr Twit's disgusting eating habits, and how he often gets hideous particles of food trapped in his beard!

In one scene we see Mrs Twit, as part of a horrid practical joke, mix worms in to her husband's spaghetti, claiming that "its a new brand," and "that's why it's so squishy." An adapted recipe for this "wormy spaghetti" can be found in 'Revolting Recipes,' which was published in 1994, after Roald Dahl’s death. His wife (Felicity Dahl) describes how the book was an “interpretation of some of the scrumptious and wonderfully disgusting dishes which appear in Roald Dahl’s books.” Of course, I decided to try out the recipe for "Wormy spaghetti," in fact I added an even more gruesome touch, naming the final dish "wormy spaghetti and dogfood meatballs!" Below is the recipe from the book:

 

It was a fun creation to make, I even used two types of spaghetti sizes to make it more realistic! I got the help of my little brother who found this a disgustingly delightful experience. Of course there weren't really any worms of dogfood in the recipe, but it was fun to pretend so, and although it tasted lovely, all that talk of disgusting squishy worms and slimy dogfood and Mr Twit's horrid beard filled with fermenting morsels of food left us a bit queasy before we had even started!

 

Here is my adaptation of the 'wormy spaghetti:'

 

 

The ingredients for my horrible spaghetti

The "wormy spaghetti and dogfood meatballs"

 

This was a lot of fun to make, it took some time but my little brother and I thoroughly enjoyed ourselves, we had fun trying to think up of the  most horrid name for this dish and telling others what it was!

 

 

This dish, we unanimously decided, gets awarded a surefire gory rating of: :
5 out of 5 !!

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Comments:
What could be more horrible and more gory than spaghetti containing worms and meatballs made of dog food? Nothing!