"own label" basics Spag Bol.>>>>

As someone who has to eat a LOT of ready meals, I can say that the Sainsburys standard Spag Bol - not the poncey one - is simply wonderfull.

Spag Bol is perhaps the standard, basic, first thing a young man might be able to cook without poisoning everyone (for an older generation, it would have been shepherd's pie). It's a signifier that Tyrone isn't as sophisticated as he thinks he is>

exactly - now i know why the writers wrote what they wrote - Tyrone was trying to get the attention of wife Molly who has been preoccupied with Kevin, Tyrone's boss, with whom she is having an affair - and to impress her he was going to 'make a mean spag bol' - looser

He was probably going to put Marmite in it, too....

Mind you, Kevin is hardly in the romantic wine-and-dine class, is he?

Mind you, Kevin is hardly in the romantic wine-and-dine class, is he?>

not normally but at this time he was wineing (sp?) and dining (and bedding) plump Molly at a posh hotel in Chester - when they were supposed to be running a 10K in Glasgow!

Tyrone is as they say 'a little slow on the uptake'

>>at this time he was wineing (sp?) and dining (and bedding) plump Molly at a posh hotel in Chester - when they were supposed to be running a 10K in Glasgow!<<

My word, they've changed scriptwriters, obviously. I'm so out of touch.

Good Italian nosh at Croma near Albert Square Manchester.

There are lots of very good Italian restaurants in manchester City centre, who will all serve something like a Spag Bol, or maybe Penne or Tagliatelli or Farfalle or some other pasta with a sauce. Try:

San Rocco-South King St
San Carlos-Off Deansgate
Piccolinos-Albert Sq
Stock-Norfolk St

and several others. You might just see the cast of Corres in San Carlos with a sprinkling of footballers.

It's grim up north.

Funnily, my daughter, too, rather likes the Sainsbury's basics Spag Bol. Personally I would have thought it would be disgusting, compared to home made, but votes otherwise may change my mind.

The grimness is usually caused by long faced Southerners coming up here and broadcasting from our fair City.

Manchester is one of the best cities in the UK for everything. Now then C_W, can I spit out your bait?

Looks like you've been hooked.

PalenQ....um...Coronation Street....erm, it's fiction....

>Brown decent mince (nothing wrong with Tesco's, of course), and a spot of chicken liver, add a battuta till it starts melting,

What is a battuta? I googled it and got hits for either a gay restaurant in Sydney or Ibn Battuta, who was evidently a widely travelled Muslim of the medieval period. Am guessing you mean it to be neither of these things ...?

Lavandula

"I googled it "

Google shows 1,320,000 references to battuta meaning things other than restaurants or the feckless Arab with a habit of begetting and abandoning children throughout the Muslim world.

In Italian cookery, especially in the centre and north, it's a mix of finely chopped veg (usually onion, root veg, garlic and parsley) which is gently fried to provide a base for many sauces and soups.

There are 143,000 references on google to battute containing onion and celery

Sorry, you've got it wrong. This is an Argentine striker who played most of his club football at Fiorentina.

Now then C_W, can I spit out your bait?>>>

Shouldn't you be strangling kestrels?

No, we're not hungry this week. We're still eating the bloke from Shoreditch who called selling jellied eels.

>>This is an Argentine striker who played most of his club football at Fiorentina.<<

Ah. Hairnets at dawn, then.

You haven't been to Shoreditch recently have you?

Sushi yes, tapas, yes, japanese food that tastes of snot, bien sur, Eels? no chance.