NORTHERN PLANNER

One of my less auspicious claims to fame is eating spaghetti bolognese as an evening meal –  for three months in succession. I was student, I needed fuel for swimming and other stuff, and beer came first. yes, no one knows more about this meal than I, every variation was explored in the quest for the perfect spag bol.

But I’ve moved on, time is no excuse. There’s hundreds of meals that take twenty minutes to make from scratch. It’s easy – it just takes a little practice and a bit of effort.

But it would seem that quite a few people disagree,  as this article suggests. The average Briton will eat 2,960 portions of spaghetti in their lifetime – or every day for eight years. Has Jamie Oliver and co revolutionised the British palatte? Not likely.