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Over Portioned Uncooked Pasta Meme

The meme is split into two parts: the top section has humorous text, and the bottom section is a real photograph. The text jokes that the poster is so poor at portioning uncooked pasta that they have prepared enough food to serve the reader plus 110 of their friends for dinner. The supporting photo shows an excessively large amount of uncooked spaghetti being boiled in a metal pot of water, illustrating the common relatable home cooking mistake of overestimating how much dry pasta expands when cooked, which results in far more food than is needed for a standard small meal.
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Hey I'm really bad at portioning uncooked pasta, so if you and 110 of your friends wanna come over dinner is ready

Overview

The meme is split into two parts: the top section has humorous text, and the bottom section is a real photograph. The text jokes that the poster is so poor at portioning uncooked pasta that they have prepared enough food to serve the reader plus 110 of their friends for dinner. The supporting photo shows an excessively large amount of uncooked spaghetti being boiled in a metal pot of water, illustrating the common relatable home cooking mistake of overestimating how much dry pasta expands when cooked, which results in far more food than is needed for a standard small meal.

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This is a widely circulated relatable home cooking meme that is popular across multiple social media platforms. The specific instance provided is sourced from an RSS feed of the X.com (formerly Twitter) account @meme.jpg, which shared this iteration of the meme.

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