To shout FFS it’s bolognese!!!

[Booksandwine80]

There seems to be a trend for people calling spaghetti bolognese “spag bowl”......gives me the rage

AIBU?!

What phrases piss you off??!!

Spaghetti is the wrong pasta for bolognese (ragu). You should use tagliatelle.

I think 'spag bol' is fine for what most people in the U.K. mean by it - a mince-based tomatoey sauce which usually only bears a passing resemblance to the real Bolognese ragù.

For instance, I once had a flat mate whose 'spag bol' consisted of mince, a can of sweet corn and a good dollop of tomato K.

DS2 gets disappointed when I say it’s spag Bol for dinner and serve up fusilli Bol instead.

Spag bog here I'm afraid 😁

And for no real reason, other than this thread has reminded me of it, I'm going to mention Broccoli Cheese Sauce, which XH used to say. I can't even articulate why I hated it so much.

And veges. I loathe the word veggies now because he used it so much, but even more i hate it being written as veges, even though that would be a more acceptable way to abbreviate it I suppose...

I agree OP. Winds me right up.

It's a bowl for eating "spag bol" out of. Case closed.

I used to know someone really posh whose family called it “spags”

It's spagious bolious sometimes in this house.

What really irritates me is when the g is pronounced in bolognese.

My phone autocorrects it to Slag Bol I feel quite judged...

Mac n cheese really annoys me. Until earlier this year I thought it mean a McDonald's big mac with cheese, and I got confused when characters on TV or in films seemed to be talking about making it themselves.

Ahhh god I hear somebody calling it sketty, even worse than spag bol .

I get the same rage from "choccy biccy"

I was once on a messageboard about ten years ago when the term 'spag bol' was deleted by mods as it was apparently an offensive way of describing Italian immigrants!!! Loads of people chimed in agreeing that it was mightily offensive I've never heard that said before or since, and I still wonder wtf they were talking about as I've never heard it used in any context except referring to, well, spaghetti and meatballs sauce! There are some odd wormholes on t'internet.

Meat sauce, you stupid bloody autocorrect.

MIL calls it "spog nog" 😬

Now I want a giant dish of slag blob

We have spagerdy berlernerse in this house, and tell each other to pass the 'palmers ham' and 'gaelic breath' 😂

I thought Ben Elton had been the first to shorten it to “spag bol”, interesting to find it was used before him.

It’s very wrong. Spaghetti is not the pasta of choice for bolognese sauce. It should be served with tagliatelle. Colloquially, it is tag bol not spag bol!

Why do people get annoyed over such trivial things?

Who gives a fuck what people call it?

Tagliatelle doesn't look half as appealing. I'd rather go against the official tradition and stick with spaghetti. It's not "wrong".

At least we're not like Americans and call the pasta "noodles" ffs. THAT winds me up.

Maybe they think it's a bowl of spag

I'm a southerner and a bit common so it does sound like spag bowl when I say it out loud (at 2am, like a mad woman!) but mean spag bol. We tend to use linguine though.

There is no and in macaroni cheese, and anyway the macaroni element and the cheese element are combined into one before serving , they are not separate entities requiring an and to link them.

As a Canadian, this one "give me the rage", (not really). But it is, of course, two elements, that's why you need the "and". I remember the first time I saw the words "cauliflower cheese", I thought it was a special kind of cheese.