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Malcolm Gladwell on spaghetti sauce

I've been on a team that won the world championship of barbecue.

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But as soon as you walk in, I go, Ooh. Spaghetti sauce there.

It s made of peceto (veal), topped with a sauce of tuna, mayonnaise and anchovies.

They had a notion, a Platonic notion, of what tomato sauce was.

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When we talked about authentic tomato sauce in the 1970s, we talked about Italian tomato sauce. We talked about the earliest ragus, which had no visible solids, right?

Now, did he look for the most popular brand variety of spaghetti sauce? No!

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And for years and years and years and years, Ragu and Prego would have focus groups, and they would sit all you people down, and they would say, What do you want in a spaghetti sauce? Tell us what you want in a spaghetti sauce.

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But it was, technically speaking this is an aside Prego is a better tomato sauce than Ragu.

And the Ragu would all go to the bottom, and the Prego would sit on top.

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What Howard Moskowitz was doing was saying, this same revolution needs to happen in the world of tomato sauce.

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And today, if you go to the supermarket, a really good one, and you look at how many Ragus there are do you know how many they are? 36!

Gochujang (Korean traditional sauce made of red pepper) is also commonly used, often as pepper (chilli) paste, earning the cuisine a reputation for being spicy.

And, anyway, despite the fact that they were far superior in adherence, and the quality of their tomato paste, Prego was struggling.

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Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell gets inside the food industry's pursuit of the perfect spaghetti sauce and makes a larger argument about the nature of choice and happiness.

Campbell's made Prego, and Prego, in the early '80s, was struggling next to Ragu, which was the dominant spaghetti sauce of the '70s and '80s.

And Prego then went back, and completely reformulated their spaghetti sauce, and came out with a line of extra chunky that immediately and completely took over the spaghetti sauce business in this country.

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Because we thought that what it took to make people happy was to provide them with the most culturally authentic tomato sauce, A and B, we thought that if we gave them the culturally authentic tomato sauce, then they would embrace it.

And of those three facts, the third one was the most significant, because at the time, in the early 1980s, if you went to a supermarket, you would not find extra chunky spaghetti sauce.

The quality of the tomato paste is much better the spice mix is far superior it adheres to the pasta in a much more pleasing way. In fact, they would do the famous bowl test back in the '70s with Ragu and Prego.