Lion in Winter

You mean I've been lugging bread across the Atlantic for nothing?


I shall have a word.

robin1234

Now KDs would be Canadian not American, surely!

Apfelkuchen

Isn't Kraft an American company? KD does seem to have iconic status in Canadian culture though. I frequently meet with a good Canadian expat friend to feast on it. She gets very excited about it. The Canadian boxes have the added excitement of having French on them .

Apfelkuchen

Afraid so . As far as I remember, it is about £2 for a round loaf in Sainsbury's. But maybe it isn't available in your sister's area.....

Christian

Calling it KD or Kraft Dinner is seen as a Canadian shibboleth ... whether it is de facto, I can't claim to know. I've lived here for years and would call it by the (so-called) American term 'Macaroni & Cheese' myself because the term is more readily understood by most. (I don't think 'Cheesy Pasta' would be recognised by Canadians, not by most any way).

Apfelkuchen

Yes, I picked up 'Kraft Dinner'/'KD' from my Canadian friend and we have even discussed the fact that only Canadians call it that! Before I started hanging out with her so much, I just called it mac 'n' cheese because that is what my USC fiance, whom I love mainly because he was the first person to introduce me to it, calls it. All my American friends do too.

Linguistically speaking, I seem prone to adapt to whatever is going on around me. When I go to the US I change my vocabulary without thinking. When I go home to Belfast for a visit my accent immediately gets much stronger and I start using lots of Ulster-Scots words.

EDIT to add: I don't know what the Wikipedia article is on about. I'm sure most people in the UK have never heard of it (although I am proud to have introduced many to it). I've certainly never heard it referred to as 'cheesey pasta'!

EDIT again to add: It now comes in a variety with Spongebob shaped pasta, for extra coolness.

Christian

I've only seen it flogged in a red packet labelled Cheesy Pasta in more recent years myself,
I didn't grow up with it back home in England either.

Christian

At one time, I think it was more well known in the UK as ‘Macaroni Cheese’ without the ‘and’
... but I could only find the one example of that any more at the end, and it's Australian.

Apfelkuchen

Ah, yes, now you mention it the picture of the Macaroni Cheese box does ring a bell from when I was little. I've never seen the red boxes, but will have to get one next time I am home and test to see if it tastes the same .

I notice that it says 'serves 3' on the front of the Cheesey Pasta. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Weak.

Dorothy

President's Choice white macaroni & cheese is way better than KD. Although, growing up I loved KD with chopped canned tomatoes mixed in and lots of black pepper.

robin1234

Yes.. Back in the old days, 'macaroni cheese' was a full meal in itself, made from scratch with a robust white sauce made with cheese, probably fried onions and chopped tomatoes and finished in the oven with plenty of grated cheese on top. Didn't come prepackaged in a box at all. I've certainly never heard it labelled 'cheesy pasta' before. Or 'cheesey pasta'... (First time I typed it this bloody iPad corrected my spelling)

Again, back in the old days, the British ate plenty of pasta. But only two kinds, spaghetti and macaroni. So we didn't call it 'pasta', we just called it spaghetti or macaroni. Now, my wife grew up using the generic term 'noodles' rather than 'pasta' .. Because pasta is Italian while noodles is German or Yiddish.

Bob

chopped tomatoes and hot dogs, the king of student lunches

Saying that, the Walmart own brand extra cheesy Mac and Cheese is pretty lovely if you want to get into eating the slag of lunches

Apfelkuchen

Funnily enough, I hate 'real' mac and cheese. I'm just not a fan of cheese sauce (the kind made from real cheese) on pasta. But there is something about that synthetic orange powdery flavour that I can't resist.

Dorothy

Forgot about the chopped hot dogs. It's all the food groups in one delicious yet strangely not nutritious bowl!

another bloody yank

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