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My friend Burt Goldstein would frequently use lengths of uncooked spaghetti when building his paper ship models. Fellow members of the Ship Modelers Association would semi-teasingly inquire which parts were paper or pasta when he brought his latest model to their meetings.
That said, when using food products or spices you should take steps to render them unpalatable to foraging insects. Paint, varnish or other similar coatings should suffice. Years ago, a local model train store had a layout with an orchard. One of the employees found the perfect HO scale oranges among cake decorating supplies and painstakingly glued each tiny orb onto the branches. When he arrived to open the shop the following morning, he saw a long line of miniature oranges marching down the aisle and under the rear door. The ants realized that these "fruit" were mostly sugar, and by the time the store opened they had industrially "harvested" every single one.
David T. Okamura
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