On Monday night’s Vanderpump Rules, things got heated when stars James Kennedy and Lala Kent started yelling about… pasta?

In the intense moment, a discussion about Lala eating Raquel’s (James’ girlfriend) pasta quickly escalated into a screaming match. “It’s not about the damn pasta! Get over the damn pasta! Read between the f***ing lines! It ain’t about the pasta!” yelled James. The fight was bizarre considering that the stars are usually good friends, so naturally, it didn’t take long for fans to speculate about whether all that pasta talk was covering up something much more serious.

Writer and “Everything Iconic” podcast host Danny Pellegrino first started the rumors on Twitter when he claimed that “pasta” is actually a Vanderpump Rules code word for “cocaine.”

Is James hinting that it’s really not about the pasta? Our resident Vanderpump expert Lea Palmieri believes that this theory has some legs to it. “It’s much easier for me to believe these people were talking about cocaine than carbs. Look at them. They’re like 4 lbs each,” she says.

However, the cast was quick to chime in and insisted that the duo really *is* talking about carbs, not coke.

If these two are to be believed, James and Lala’s dispute was about nothing more than a friendly discussion about ravioli that got a little too intense. But just because the stars weren’t talking about cocaine this time doesn’t mean that Vanderpump is 100% family friendly, as Ariana later pointed out on Twitter.

Looks like we’ll be spending next Monday searching for more code words. Or as James says, “reading between the f***ing lines.”

(via The Outline)

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