#161

No worries mate I’m on your side here, Team Lofty all the way.

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#162

I’m guessing you’ve never bothered with the capers.

If not using quorn then personally I like to grate in carrot and use chopped up mushrooms and courgettes.

Cheddar is the bomb on spag bol. Parmesan is grim.

#164

WTF
How does that make a meal boring because you need to eat twice as much?

You don’t want to eat twice as much of your “delicious” bolognese cause thats boring but these pasta dishes are delicious so you’d have no problem eating 2 bowls of it.

#165

Ha, I will say this: I was okay with parmesan about 10 years ago. As a kid I hated it. But in recent years I’ve found it harder and harder to enjoy and now I have regressed back to when I was a kid and cheddar cheese was all we got on pasta.

#166

Really fancy a spag bol for dinner now. A proper one.

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#167

No because capers have no place in a spag bol.

Parmesan is a seasoning imo. It adds saltiness.

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#169

And the sweet, sweet smell of vomit.

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#170

Ragga Bol? Does that work, nope.

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#171

Or ‘bolognese’

It would be Spaghetti Al Ragu. That’s what pretty much everyone is making in this thread, and not well I might add.

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#173

Bolognese snobs are the worst of all the snobs.

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#174

Bang it in here chief:

#177

So do capers

#178

Feels proper brexit in here. ‘Fuck your signature dish Bologna, we Brits know better!’

#180

It’s almost like cuisine isn’t set in stone and will evolve when moved from its place of origin.

#181

fucking hell, have a word with yourself cultural appropriation apologist! jfc :smiley:

Also I’d argue that no - if a place name is in a dish, you make it according to their recipes, or with very little adjustments. or you just call it something else to acknowledge that it’s no longer that dish.

#184

Don’t even know what you mean pal.

So many dishes are open to interpretation - I think if you’re making a places signature dish then it should be kept that way else called something else - I absolutely think that’s fair enough.

‘Here is this dish from xx place, except I’ve changed most of the ingredients, changed it’s texture, consistency, flavour and serve it completely differently.’

#186

I think the big :smiley: after made it clear @elthamsmateowen was just having a light joke with me regarding the cultural appropriation thing?

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#188

of course that was a joke referencing the Lena Dunham thing above.

Still think it’s totally reasonable to acknowledge what a dish is (and the fact that plenty of people from Bologna would be pretty offended at what passes for Bolognese here and elsewhere. Everyone’s getting defensive because they just settled in their ways of calling it something and don’t want to accept that they’re wrong.

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#190

Glad to see the reason this thread is on #numbers is bolognese chat. It’s great of course. Have it about once a week.

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#191

I knew you were on my side anyway :wink:

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