Cheap Spaghetti

Spaghetti bolognese is a staple of the British diet, we even think we do it better than the Italians. We love spaghetti. Some love slurping it while it dangles from their face. Others love twirling it round their fork creating a beautiful ball but leaving all the sauce behind. Monsters use a knife to cut it up into baby spaghetti’s. And others still love sharing it in an alley with your crush, inevitably get caught on the same strand of spaghetti, kiss and fall in spaghetti love.

There are more choices than ever for spaghetti. There is branded and supermarket own brand for a start. Then Supermarkets provide multiple tiers of spaghetti within their own branded range: Posh, standard and cheap. Posh spaghetti is usually a little thicker and dusty to make it look fresh. Instead of being made in the factory down the road it’s made in a factory down an Italian road. Posh is not worth the increased price. Standard tier is what most people have. There is nothing wrong or fancy about the standard tier and I guess that’s the point. Just bog standard how you imagine spaghetti is the standard tier.

The cheap tier is where the magic happens. I love the cheap tier. The cheaper the spaghetti the better. Some supermarkets even have a fourth ultra cheap tier which is a real treat. If your pan of boiling water doesn’t instantly go cloudy and murky when the spaghetti hits it you haven’t gone cheap enough.

Cheap guarantees the spaghetti is how I like it: thin and sticky. I don’t want fancy artisan spaghetti. Spaghetti should be like how it looks in cartoons. All stuck together and beautiful. Slightly gelatinous so it fills all the crevices of your mouth. When eating spaghetti I don’t want to be taken to the Italian countryside. I want to be taken to school dinners. School dinner spaghetti. That’s how it should be.