Comment on Why is she making KD at 1:30 am?

• Stamets@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m Canadian too. Here’s the absolutely batshit thing. They do have it down in the states but they don’t call it Kraft Dinner. To them it’s just “Kraft Mac & Cheese”. Their boxes just say Macaroni and Cheese with a Kraft brand on top of it. They actually have to distinguish between boxed and baked mac and cheese…

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  • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This.

    This right here, is what is wrong with America

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    • tacosanonymous@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      As an American, I can say this is the least of our problems.

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      • TheRaven@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The mindset of “this kind of works for us, don’t change it, even if what you have is better” is at the root of most issues with America. Healthcare or Kraft Dinner, American Exceptionalism is damaging.

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    • Keeponstalin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I agree, baked Mac n Cheese reigns supreme

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    • Stamets@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Could not agree more, my friend.

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  • thorbot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nobody calls it Kraft Mac and cheese. It’s just Mac and cheese. I love that you can’t fathom the lack of “Kraft” at the beginning though

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    • Stamets@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Cheese sauce

      Your country is place of sin

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      • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Pretty sure the French invented that hundreds of years ago, not the US

        So yeah I’d agree tbh

        (Cheese sauce is melted cheese, flour, and milk over heat, you’re likely thinking of canned cheese or Velveeta)

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      • thorbot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Butter flour milk and cheddar cheese in a pan makes the most delicious cheese sauce ever. If that’s sinful then send me to hell because it’s fucking delicious

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    • theyoyomaster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s just blue box to me.

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s because, unlike y’all, we sometimes eat things other than mac & cheese for dinner.

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  • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Baked? I guess you can do it that way, but generally not how it’s done in the lower 48.

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It depends on how much your parents love you

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      • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Whatever man, my dad is just out getting cigarettes. He’s coming back.

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      • YerbaYerba@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        We sometimes got chopped hotdogs in ours. True love.

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s the early adopter problem. We invented both things so didn’t really have room to distinguish. So it’s lazy Mac and cheese vs bar Mac and cheese vs honey did you really need to buy three cheeses and make a full ass brick roux Mac and cheese

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  • Ohi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If the argument is which country has a better name for it, we Americans are calling it what it is, Kraft’s Mac & Cheese. It’s also served as a side dish a lot of the times, so calling it a “Dinner” implies it’s used as the main course.

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  • WashedOver@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I went to Columbus a few years ago and I was surprised how every restaurant I went no matter if it was a hole in the wall or a fine dining establishment they all had a version of Mac and Cheese on their menu.

    From a simple version to versions with lobster I tried them all. Years later when I was in Montreal I noticed a similar theme where they all offer their version of Poutine.

    I couldn’t imagine if KD made Poutine it would taste anywhere near what I ate in Montreal just as regular KD was nothing like the stuff I ate in Columbus that week.

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• Dkarma@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We don’t call it kraft. It’s just Mac and cheese. Fuck Robert kraft.

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• prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s called Mac&Cheese here in the states

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