What Italian dish makes the least mess?
Something like chicken parmesan would be alright, usually that doesn’t come served with pasta. Yea anything with long noodles (spaghetti, fettucini, angel hair) would be somewhat messy but if you were forced to eat them just cut up the pasta into manageable strips, and you don’t have eat it all, you could eat like half of it and that way it’d be less mess (getting those last pieces of pasta can be awkard eating). As far as short noodles I would think that a rotini would probably be less messy than a penne, it’s easier to fork stab than penne. But the main issue here is that you shouldn’t be too worried, as long as she’s not a super bitch I’m sure she won’t mind a slurp or two.
Speaking as a father who has met a lot of his son’s girlfriends… it would never occur to me that any Italian food was messy (my wife is from Italy) – the only thing about the way you eat that might make an impression would be if you slurped your food, or chewed with your mouth open. If you twirled your pasta in a spoon, we would just think you were a WASP. I advise you not to order anything expensive, or anything with a lot of garlic unless everyone does. Any kind of food allergy or being a vegetarian is not a good thing (unless your boyfriend’s mother is a vegetarian, or there are the same allergies in their family) – they will not exactly hold this against you but it wouldn’t be a plus. Don’t drink too much alcohol. Don’t order an exotic drink.
