Kid’s Cuisine: Andrew Says Be Careful When You Order Pasta on a Cruise

By Andrew Larison

I’m here to tell you all about the great pasta on cruise lines. As a big pasta fan I know the best of the best, which is almost everything in my case. The best pasta dishes have to have garlic and creamy sauce, that’s all there is to it. On the Holland America Cruise I had some of the best pasta and the worst. My best pasta was the classic spaghetti and creamy tomato sauce, Man that’s good stuff! But the worst I dread to tell you.

So I’m sitting at my table with my family waiting for our meals to come. I’m starving by the time they bring out and put it front of me so I dug in quick, but then I noticed something. These little shells at the top of my dish… I grabbed one to check it out and to my surprise it was oddly like a clamshell. So I opened it and……. All these weird gray blobs popped out at me it was disgusting! I asked my mom later what it was and it turned out to be mussels… oh boy…I lost my appetite just a little bit.

One time I got some caviar in the middle of my spaghetti, I mean who likes caviar? What is the stuff anyway? Fish poo? Anyway I’ve gotten a lot of odd things on my spaghetti – you have to be careful what cruise lines put in it! Some ships, like Holland America, have a pasta bar in the buffet where YOU can say what you want in your pasta – I like this best. So if you avoid the weird stuff cruise lines can add to your dish, eating pasta on a cruise is just plain awesome!