Once, when we were camping, I was making spaghetti for dinner. I didn't feel like trying to balance two pots on the Coleman stove, so I put the raw spaghetti right in the sauce to cook and felt very clever and efficient.
Except the spaghetti soaked up the sauce and the starch from the pasta thickened the sauce into something resembling red cement. It was completely inedible, so I left it out overnight on the picnic table to deal with in the morning. I looked out next morning to see a big raven trying to peck at the mess, but he wasn't able to put much of a dent in it.
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