Wait, has something changed in the speed an atomic war would take place in the last 40 years? When I was a teenager in the 80s I could be vaporized from one moment to the next.

We had fucking autobahns and bridges mined with tactical nukes so they could be blown up in order to stop a conventional army.

Maybe fatalism is what you get being a teenager in the 80s living right next to the Iron Curtain.

I just googled for “flat pasta strainer”, as the one I have was a present from my dad and I don’t know a brand or name.

I grabbed this pic from Amazon to show the strainer. It’s not how I cook pasta. Tbh probably every Chinese product is being shown with a sloppy photoshop pic, nowadays.

I have one of these:

I love it, much better than a normal strainer.

(And it doesn’t take a lot of space in the drawer or dishwasher)