the.com/spaghetti bolognese

means A pasta dish of spaghetti topped with a slow-cooked ground meat and tomato sauce — beloved worldwide, though not actually how Bologna makes it.

from The sauce is named for Bologna, Italy, where the real version, 'ragù alla bolognese,' is traditionally served over flat tagliatelle, not spaghetti, and built with more meat and less tomato than the export version. The dish as most of the world knows it — spaghetti drowned in a tomatoey mince sauce — developed abroad, likely shaped by Italian emigrant cooking and later mass catering, wandering far enough from its namesake city that Bologna itself regards 'spaghetti bolognese' as something of a foreign invention wearing its name.