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==In popular culture== [[File:Alberto Sordi - scena degli spaghetti - Un americano a Roma (1954).jpg|thumb|250px|[[Alberto Sordi]] in the movie ''[[An American in Rome]]'']] Poorly structured [[computer]] [[source code]] is often described as ''[[spaghetti code]]''.<ref name="Markus4">{{cite journal|last1=Markus|first1=Pizka|title=Straightening spaghetti-code with refactoring?|journal=Software Engineering Research and Practice|date=2004|pages=846–852|url=http://itestra.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/04_itestra_straightening_spaghetti_code_with_refactoring.pdf|access-date=5 March 2018|archive-date=5 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180305202716/http://itestra.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/04_itestra_straightening_spaghetti_code_with_refactoring.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> In women's clothing, very thin straps supporting a dress or topwear are called "[[Spaghetti strap|spaghetti straps]]".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spaghetti%20strap|title=Definition of spaghetti strap |publisher=[[Merriam-Webster]]|access-date=June 28, 2019}}</ref> The term ''[[spaghetti Western]]'' was used by American critics and those in other countries because most of the [[Western film|Western movies]] made in Europe were produced and directed by [[Cinema of Italy|Italians]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Introduction | first1 = Simon | last1 = Gelten | last2 = Lindberg | date = 10 November 2015| title = Introduction | website = Spaghetti Western Database | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170630005758/https://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Introduction | archive-date = 30 June 2017 | url-status = live | access-date = 2 May 2021}}</ref> In the 1955 animated movie ''[[Lady and the Tramp]]'', the sequence of the title characters sharing a plate of spaghetti—climaxed by an accidental kiss as they swallow opposite ends of the same strand of spaghetti—is considered an iconic scene in American film history.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.filmsite.org/iconicfilmscenes.html|title=100 Most Iconic Film Images, Moments, or Scenes|last=Dirks|first=Tim|work=filmsite|publisher=AMC|access-date=December 25, 2017|archive-date=July 18, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150718035200/https://www.filmsite.org/iconicfilmscenes.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The BBC television program ''[[Panorama (British TV programme)|Panorama]]'' featured a [[Spaghetti-tree hoax|hoax program about the spaghetti harvest]] in Switzerland on [[April Fools' Day]] in 1957.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/1/newsid_2819000/2819261.stm | title=1957: BBC fools the nation | publisher=[[BBC]] | work=On This Day | date=1 April 2005}}</ref>
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