Possible Clues:

• Turns up, father finds lab runners not feeling the best coming back with pasta
• Pasta in long slender threads
• Thin strands of pasta
• Pasta in fine long strands
• Initially dropped over computer equipment, I shall get back shreds of chocolate
• Stringy pasta
• Cousin of angel hair
• Food that's Italian for "little worms"
• Mouse loses tail section and his heart producing stringy little worms in Italian restaurant!
• Pasta poor church creatures fed to sick clergyman coming round