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 11 months agoI’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…
thorbot@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Stamets@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Cheese sauce
Your country is place of sin
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months 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)
bitwaba@lemmy.world 11 months ago
- Roux: flour + oil/butter
- Bechamel: milk + roux
- Mornay sauce: cheese + bechamel
thorbot@lemmy.world 11 months 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
theyoyomaster@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s just blue box to me.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s because, unlike y’all, we sometimes eat things other than mac & cheese for dinner.
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Baked? I guess you can do it that way, but generally not how it’s done in the lower 48.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 11 months ago
It depends on how much your parents love you
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Whatever man, my dad is just out getting cigarettes. He’s coming back.
YerbaYerba@lemm.ee 11 months ago
We sometimes got chopped hotdogs in ours. True love.
sartalon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
We got ground beef once. Life hasn’t peaked that high since.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 11 months 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
Ohi@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
WashedOver@lemmy.ca 11 months 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.
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
This.
This right here, is what is wrong with America
tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 11 months ago
As an American, I can say this is the least of our problems.
TheRaven@lemmy.ca 11 months 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.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Excuse me but our health care doesn’t even kinda work for us. It’s a full on disaster. The duct tape (Obamacare) is helping but before that if you lost your job after you had cancer nobody would ever insure any cancer treatments for you again.
MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world 11 months ago
We should’ve lost the Revolution.
bitwaba@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Here’s a really crazy thing that we do: have Mac & cheese made by someone other than Kraft. It actually is exceptional.
Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I agree, baked Mac n Cheese reigns supreme
Stamets@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Could not agree more, my friend.