Etiquette expert and fellow podcaster William Hanson talks about anglicising words and why Edward VII’s rotund waistline is why you don’t do the bottom button on a waistcoat.
Jordan North and William Hanson ( @WilliamHansonEtiquette ) are an unlikely pair. They met at the BBC in 2012 and walked away assuming it would be a one-off. However, fate had other plans and today they are best friends and present a very successful podcast together called Help I Sexted My Boss ( @SextedMyBoss ) Each week, their listeners share hilarious dilemmas and Jordan and William respond with very different advice. The duo now have a sold-out tour and a companion book on sale now.
Jordan North recently left Radio 1 to present the Capital breakfast show and William Hanson is the UK’s number 1 etiquette expert.
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I've always thought the spaghetti didn't match well with spag bol 😭
Genuinely, one of the best easiest changes to make with spaghetti Bolognese to make it notably better, is to simply use linguine.
Ahhh the brits and food…so sad
Why did they decide to do that here?…because in the 70s I can only imagine the types of pasta available in the UK was very limited. Quite easy to work out really.
Jordan is soooo cute
It wouldn’t be called ‘…. bolognaise’ on a menu in Italy unless you were in Bologna or at a very commercial/tourist trap type restaurant.
The sauce is called ‘Ragu’ and many different regions have their own versions and variations of making this sauce – but the most famous are from Bologna & Napoli.
But yes Angela is right, typically most regions would accompany the sauce with tagliatelle or pappardelle but I like to have mine with pacchi, penne or rigatoni.
Pappardelle is superior to spaghetti
The thinner the noodles the more I like it. Gimme spaghettini and angel hair with everything.
Lol talking about Anglicizing it, but also abbreviating, too. I was wondering what the hell "spag bol" was and pictured some kind of horrifically bland gelatinized meat substance until I realized they were talking about spaghetti 😂
As an Italian it's Spaghetti Bolognese not Spag Bol. It simply doesn't exist! Stop the massacre of our beautiful language.
In Italy we say Spaghetti al ragù.
Not one Italian can give you a reason for it which isn't directly contradicted by another of their made up rules.
Example: "Bolognese sauce is too chunky for spaghetti and the sauce won't cling to the noodles." Counter example: spaghetti alla vongole.
Example: "Spaghetti goes with more delicate sauces". Counter example: spaghetti alla puttanesca.
Don't misunderstand me: I love and respect Italian food, Italian people and Italian culture. But their food rules are often complete nonsense.
A Brit asked why they bastardized a culture.
“Spag bol”??? Ew.
I travelled to Italy from the US and fell in love with fresh pasta! The pizza is better in US.
Spaghetticis the worst possible noodle
I love “spag bol”, it sounds like some random new Gen Z slang term.
Italian food is mid at best and much of it wouldn’t exist without Spain and Portugal
In Germany it’s also Spaghetti Bolognese… though not “Spag Bol” 😂
anytime I hear "spag bol" it sounds like pukey food, lol, I'm sorry, I know the Brits like to shorten words, but spaghetti bolognese sounds better than spag bol, lol
It's called ragù. Nobody in Italy says tagliatelle alla bolognese… we say tagliatelle/pappardelle/fettuccine al ragù. Bolognaise is totally made up.
Tal bol or pap bol then
Spaghetti Boar Ragu usually. Found it in nearly every restaurant in Italy.
My mum always used to call it spag bog !
Tagliatelle al Ragu if anyone was wanting them to say something correct instead of pommy waffle.
Cuz the thicker noodle can handle the thicker meat sauce better
Such pretention, is such a little amount of time.
It's Mince, tomatoes, pasta and leaves. I'll ask for it with bows if I like.
I cant stand boring Spaghetti. So Ive always used various other pasta. An my now adult kids & 4 wonderful grandsons all prefer it with pasta. The kids prefer the twisted pasta or the shell type as they hold more mince ect. 😊
Thats weird. I didnt know that, and I've always used fettuccine.
I ordered this in Calabria and the waitress was so annoyed but she came back and said “it’s ok, it’s ok”, me and my boyfriend had the WORST food poisoning of our lives the next day and we had to jump on 2 trains and a bus to the airport 😅 I don’t know what they done but they wanted us to perish 😂
It's spaghetti because that is all that was available for along time.
This is a convo 4 year olds have re food. If guests are coming on to a food podcast can they have food levels in their brains please. This is a waste of time
Im pretty sure we also got our form of Bolognaise from Americans, who frequently do it wrong as-well, with far too much Raghu and a clump of boiled Spaghetti
We only have spag bol in Australia
Oh my God, I thought for ages they were the same guy
Because where sick people 😂
Lets be real though, Italian food is the only one with the stuffiest rules. You could make a perfectly tasty bowl of pasta spag bol in this case, but because of some silly rule about tradition a lot of people throw a hissy fit, but if its ever another cuisine where people take risks its celebrated for the creativity
He looked like he was in sincere pain trying to say "spag bohl"
Me here thinking they frowned upon spaghetti in a bowl
Because in the 70s spaghetti was the only pasta available apart from macaroni.
I like Spaghetti WAY better than Tagliatelle with Bolognese!
I'm probably not ordering it if it isn't on the menu…but if it's on the menu, i don't think they'd care if you ordered it.
The reason is simply because we got enthusiastic for bolognaise befor there was any fettuccine or tagliatelle in the shelves. The only option was spaghetti but we took to it like ducks 🦆 to water 💦
Its just our version, nothing wrong with that
Why dod we call is spaghetti.. because we can't say whatever other words that came out of her mouth 😂😅💀
Who gives a toss?
The sauce is called ragù. She's right about the pasta, spaghetti is not usually served with ragù.
I prefer nearly any pasta other than spaghetti lol
Ive always used linguine
What is the difference between spaghetti and tagliatelli. It's just the same but a different form. Italians should cool down. Their cuisine is not that special.