It makes a great snack when you're done too

It's no a bad idea at all. Pasta is cheap, biodegradable, non toxic and it's already being produced.

Now ya just gotta do something about the cup.

A restaurant in my area of the US started doing this 20 years ago. Italians need to get back to what they are uniquely good at: looking for Princess Peach in the wrong castle and killing Jesus.