Does pasta with 'stir-through' pasta sauce constitute a meal?

[tarannau]

but arent you so busy and exhausted sometimes that you would do?

Nah, not really. Decent bottle of tomato polpa from the portuguese, garlic and a bit of basil from the plant and bob's your uncle in minutes. Or a few chills or bacon bits or...

Those Grossman's sauces are a bit greasy to me. Can eat them alright - they just cost more and don't really hit the spot for me. Hell, there's always a takeaway or ten nearby if I'm that lazy

 

[Clair De Lune]

Course it is a meal. If it is hot and fills you up it's a meal
That sounds a little bit rude but you know what I mean

 

[Cheesypoof]

Nah, not really. Decent bottle of tomato polpa from the portuguese, garlic and a bit of basil from the plant and bob's your uncle in minutes. Or a few chills or bacon bits or...

Those Grossman's sauces are a bit greasy to me. Can eat them alright - they just cost more and don't really hit the spot for me. Hell, there's always a takeaway or ten nearby if I'm that lazy

yeh. I do fall foul of the sainsburys own lasagne, curries and lloyds grossman sauces i must confess....but only when i get home really late. When reasonably busy or lazy I am pretty good myself at improvising on pasta and sauce or cheese on toast kinda caper. I just cant help myself. Did a homepride pasta bake the other night, adding garlic, fried onions, carton of tomatoes, olives, and it certainly improved what, i fundamentally agree, is kinda junk food.

pasta is my favourite and i am very much a peasant

 

[Madusa]

Course it is a meal. If it is hot and fills you up it's a meal

i beg to differ, saucepot!

 

[mentalchik]

Course it does..............well outside the realms of some types of food snobbery it does anyhoo !

 

[Madusa]

oh are we still talking food...?

 

[Hollis]

I'm enjoying Fridge Magnet taking my snob role for the evening here.

Fridgie's just miserable cause there's no bannings on offering tonight..

 

[kained&able]

Mads that is truely a great bit of innuendo spotting.

Good work.

dave

 

[Herbsman.]

It was already pointed out in the sentence below

 

[Chz]

Pretzels and hummus. Is it a meal? How about if I dip some carrot sticks in the hummus?

 

[dodgepot]

beans on toast is a meal and anyone who disagrees with that is a knobhead.

 

[Santino]

This thread illustrates something about the inevitable confusion between descriptive standards and normative standards in language. But I'm not sure what.

 

[kittyP]

Fridgie's just miserable cause there's no bannings on offering tonight..

I am glad I went to bed when I did what with all that disrespecting his authority

That is a joke by the way....

 

[Clair De Lune]

Course it does..............well outside the realms of some types of food snobbery it does anyhoo !

beans on toast is a meal and anyone who disagrees with that is a knobhead.

You two would have awesome non snobby sproglets
The anti tarranau

 

[kittyP]

This thread illustrates something about the inevitable confusion between descriptive standards and normative standards in language. But I'm not sure what.

Eh?

 

[Santino]

Eh?

The way that people dislike something being called a meal if it's something that they don't approve of. A bit like refusing to call something 'art' because you don't like it.

 

[ovaltina]

Meal. To make it bigger/nicer add some cheese and a llittle sandwich-filler can of tuna, sweetcorn and mayo

 

[kained&able]

The way that people dislike something being called a meal if it's something that they don't approve of. A bit like refusing to call something 'art' because you don't like it.

I like pasta and sauce.

It's not a meal.


dave

 

[strung out]

it's a meal, just not a particularly balanced one. hactually.

 

[EastEnder]

Toast and marmite - is it a meal?

It is for me.

 

[Santino]

I like pasta and sauce.

It's not a meal.


dave

What qualities of mealness does it lack?

Meal, noun 1. any of the regular daily occasions when food is eaten. 2. the food eaten on such an occasion.

 

[fractionMan]

You can buy it as a main course in a restaurant. It's a meal ffs.

Pasta + sauce = meal.

 

[kained&able]

That definition is crap.

That would mean if i ate an orange for tea that would constitute a meal.
It would also make a packet of chrips at lunch a meal. Which is clearly bollocks.

It is half a meal. Its missing an ingredient or two chuck some tinned tuna in there and it becomes a meal, chuck some mince in there it becomes meal, chuck a load of veg is there it becomes meal.

I suppose if might just about allow pasta and a really thick chopped veggie sauce to be a meal, maybe, but it would have to have an impressive amount of sweat peppers and tomatoes in there. A bit of pesto or carbonara sauce though is not a meal.

It is food and possibly enough food to tide you over to your next meal, but not a meal.

dave

 

[fractionMan]

A meal is anything you can buy, in a restaurant, as a meal.

 

[tarannau]

Where do you buy some stir-in Grossman's sauce and pasta as a meal then?

Italian restaurants generally serve pasta dishes as part of a meal ime.

 

[strung out]

That definition is crap.

That would mean if i ate an orange for tea that would constitute a meal.
It would also make a packet of chrips at lunch a meal. Which is clearly bollocks.

It is half a meal. Its missing an ingredient or two chuck some tinned tuna in there and it becomes a meal, chuck some mince in there it becomes meal, chuck a load of veg is there it becomes meal.

I suppose if might just about allow pasta and a really thick chopped veggie sauce to be a meal, maybe, but it would have to have an impressive amount of sweat peppers and tomatoes in there. A bit of pesto or carbonara sauce though is not a meal.

It is food and possibly enough food to tide you over to your next meal, but not a meal.

dave

what you've just described is the difference between a balanced meal and an unbalanced one. they're both meals though

 

[Santino]

That definition is crap.

You may not like it, but that is what the word means.

Which was my whole point. You're allowing your opinion of what a meal ought to consist of to affect how you apply the word to things.

Personally I wouldn't want a meal to consist of a load of stir fried vegetables, but I imagine lots of people have that for a meal.

 

[dodgepot]

last night for my tea i sat down and ate a big bowl of pasta with sauce. it filled me up and left me satisfied and was very tasty. i enjoyed my evening meal very much.

but now, after reading this thread, i've learnt that i didn't actually *have* an evening meal last night, and i'm feeling a bit upset and confused and really hungry

 

[Santino]

last night for my tea i sat down and ate a big bowl of pasta with sauce. it filled me up and left me satisfied and was very tasty. i enjoyed my evening meal very much.

but now, after reading this thread, i've learnt that i didn't actually *have* an evening meal last night, and i'm feeling a bit upset and confused and really hungry

You'll have to reconsider your use of the phrase 'more times than I've had hot dinners' in future.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

is a £1.99 Greggs meal deal a real meal?