Talk:Vermicelli

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Do we need the original Italian terms (camerlengo and doi o tre anni?) Thanks! Dpr 04:32, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

It is said that Erasmus Darwin, the grandfather of Charles Darwin, preserved a vermicelli noodle in a glass case until the point where it, by some unexplainable means, began to move with voluntary motion. This experiment was mentioned during the classroom scene of Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein. (This is actually from Mary Shelly's novel Frankenstein. Thats why its mentioned in Mel's parody. The actual experiment was not with vermicelli but some microbe with a similar sounding name. Mary was simply confused when she brought it up in her novel. Can someone else look up the sources for this. I found it in the Annotated Frankenstein)