Yeah it’s called Pasta ca’muddica and has a whole bunch of variations such as adding anchovies.

I interpreted it as high Cost of Living area if it helps.

I imagine the likely conclusion of it would come up with would be something like “decrease the size of the human population”.

Convince my SO to watch Vampire’s Kiss with me recently and she hated it but I’ve got love for it. It doesn’t make much sense, has an awesome soundtrack and he really went in on just being weird with the role.