Donald Goerke, the Campbell Soup Co. executive who invented SpaghettiOs, died this week at the age of 83.

Goerke was marketing research director of Campbell's Franco-American line in the early 1960s when his group started dreaming up pasta in shapes that would appeal to kids. He chose the o's. They were marketed with the unforgettable tagline, "Uh-oh, SpaghettiOs."

This passing, of course, inspires the poet in all of us. Go ahead. Write your ode to Spaghetti-Os.