Are You Eating Spaghetti Right?

Never mind shifting economic conditions and world peace. Forget about global warming. Let's get down to the real issues. Like the right way to eat spaghetti. I mean, do you use a spoon or don't you? By using a spoon, I'm referring to the use of a large spoon in combination with a fork as a means of transferring spaghetti from plate to mouth.
"Correct" being a subjective term, let me assume for the sake of argument; if you don't want to be seen as an ill-mannered, amateurish child at an authentic Italian table, the "correct" way is using the fork, the fork and nothing but the fork.
Seriously, though one of the reasons the whole "spoon" thing came to be is that once upon a time, for reasons nobody knows, Americans served spaghetti exclusively on plates. In Italy, spaghetti is generally served in a "piatto fondo", a deep bowl like a shallow soup-dish with a rim. The flat surface of a plate does not lend itself well to chasing and capturing spaghetti, hence the introduction of the spoon. But if you use a bowl, the natural curvature of the bowl does what the spoon would do. So NO spoon is necessary. TA-DAH!