I just love nerds

On a food-related list discussing how to cook spaghetti squash, one person mentioned cutting it crosswise before cooking it in various ways. Another person asked for clarification:

"Does the plane of this cut contain the squash's axis of radial symmetry, or lie orthogonal to it?"

I just had to laugh. You're not going to see that question from Martha Stewart!

(I'm guessing contains the axis of radial symmetry, but I'm awaiting the answer from the original poster.)