SpaghettiOs
Template:Short description Template:Infobox brand SpaghettiOs is a brand of canned ring-shaped pasta in tomato sauce.<ref name="auto">Template:Cite web</ref> It is marketed for children as "less messy" than regular spaghetti.<ref name="CSM">Template:Cite news</ref> More than 150 million cans of SpaghettiOs are sold each year.<ref name="chunky">Template:Cite news</ref> SpaghettiOs are sold in tomato sauce and with additions including meatballs, pieces of processed meat resembling hot dog slices, beef-filled ravioli, and calcium-fortified spaghetti.
While SpaghettiOs is a trade name, the equivalent prepared dish made by various manufacturers is available in many countries<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> as 'spaghetti hoops', 'spaghetti loops', or 'spaghetti rings'.
History
Canned spaghetti—short lengths in tomato sauce—was available long before rings were introduced.<ref name=thirty>Template:Cite web</ref> Ring-shaped canned pasta was introduced in 1965 by the Campbell Soup Company under the Franco-American brand, by marketing manager Donald Goerke, nicknamed "the Daddy-O of SpaghettiOs",<ref name="daddy">Template:Cite news</ref> as a pasta dish that could be eaten without mess.<ref name="daddy"/><ref name="chunky"/> Other shapes considered included cowboys, Indians, astronauts, stars, and sports-themed shapes.<ref name="chunky"/> Goerke created over 100 products during his 35 years with Campbell, including the Chunky line of soups.<ref name="chunky"/><ref name="test">Template:Cite web</ref> SpaghettiOs were introduced nationally without test marketing<ref name="test"/> and with television advertising using the tag line "the neat round spaghetti you can eat with a spoon" and the jingle "Uh-Oh! SpaghettiOs" (these six notes are based on the earlier "Franco-American" jingleTemplate:Citation needed) sung by Jimmie Rodgers (loosely based on his 1950s song "Oh-Oh, I'm Falling in Love Again"Template:Citation needed).<ref name="chunky"/> Other companies rapidly produced their own spaghetti hoops.<ref name=thirty/>
Cambells introduced SpaghettiOs with meatballs and SpaghettiOs with sliced franks the following year in 1966.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
In June 2010, Campbell recalled 15 million lbs (6.8 million kg) of SpaghettiOs with Meatballs (all that had been produced since December 2008 minus the large fraction that had already been consumed)<ref name="NBC recall" /> due to the malfunction of a cooker at one of the company's Texas plants.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> No reports of illnesses associated with the product and no customer complaints were recorded at the time of the recall.<ref name="NBC recall">Template:Cite news</ref>
On the 72nd anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 2013, SpaghettiOs' Twitter account posted a lighthearted message that was criticized as disrespectful. Various parodies were posted mocking it. SpaghettiOs removed the tweet in question and apologized for any offense.<ref name=theverge-uhoh>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name=nypost-spaghettios>Template:Cite web</ref>
Campbell's launched Spicy Original SpaghettiOs featuring Frank's RedHot in 2023, designed to appeal to millennials, calling it a "hot, more mature twist on a classic offering that our adult consumers grew up enjoying" according to one company executive.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> One reviewer found the product mild compared to spicy chili but ill-suited for younger children. She enjoyed the brighter red color compared to the original product and said "good vibes are guaranteed".<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Nutrition
Ingredients of SpaghettiOs Original are: water, tomato puree (water, tomato paste), enriched pasta (wheat flour, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), high-fructose corn syrup, contains less than 2% of: salt, enzyme modified cheddar cheese (cheddar cheese [cultured milk, salt, enzymes, calcium chloride], water, disodium phosphate, enzymes), vegetable oil (corn, canola, and/or soybean), enzyme modified butter, skim milk, beta carotene for color, citric acid, paprika extract, flavoring. Potential allergens: wheat and milk.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
