Kraft Dinner (KD) in Canada, Kraft Mac & Cheese in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand, Cheesey Pasta in the United Kingdom and internationally is a nonperishable, packaged macaroni and cheese product.
In the U.S. and Australia, the iconic yellow pasta meal in the blue box is called Kraft Macaroni & Cheese or Kraft Mac & Cheese, but in the U.K., it is Macaroni Cheese or Cheesey Pasta. In Canada—where Kraft Dinner is so popular, it's been called the de facto national dish—it is fondly referred to as “KD.”
Macaroni and cheese (also called mac and cheese in Canada and the United States and macaroni cheese in the United Kingdom) is a dish of cooked macaroni pasta and a cheese sauce, most commonly Cheddar sauce. Macaroni and cheese. Alternative names. Mac and cheese, macaroni pie, macaroni cheese. Course.
macaroni au gratin -- a fancy way of saying mac and cheese!
Cheeze is an alternative spelling of cheese, sometimes used as a slang term for money. Cheeze is also commonly used for vegan cheese.
Kraft Dinner (KD) in Canada, Kraft Mac & Cheese in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand, Cheesey Pasta in the United Kingdom and internationally is a nonperishable, packaged macaroni and cheese product.
Besides devotion to soccer, one of the biggest global differences is how the British often refer to McDonald's: “MacDonald's,” “Maccies,” and “Maccy D's” are common nicknames for the Golden Arches over there. Similarly, French customers refer to the company as “McDo” while Australians often call it “Macca's.”
Biscuit (UK) / Cookie (US)
In the UK, these are generally called biscuits, although people do call the bigger, softer kind cookies, too.
A staple of American cuisine, the creamy combo made its way to the United States courtesy of Thomas Jefferson, who, while visiting France, became enamored of fashionable pasta dishes served there. He brought back noodle recipes and a pasta machine, since this foodstuff was unavailable in the Colonies.
British food historian Dr Neil Buttery says macaroni cheese has its origins firmly in Britain. It then emigrated to the US and Canada with British settlers, but it wasn't until the 1930s during the Great Depression that it really became part of American culture.
There are different theories about the origins of macaroni (in Italian we call it “maccheroni“).
Kraft's successor company in Australia, Mondelez, sold their cheese products line to Bega Cheese, but retained rights to the Kraft name. Bega switched the name of their sliced cheese product from "Kraft Singles" to "Dairylea Slices", as Bega acquired the rights to the Dairylea brand in Australia in the deal.
Charlie Cheese's is a chain of family entertainment centers in Australia operated by Kabushiki Gaisha ABS.
There are hundreds of Australian cheeses to be found at your local farmer's market, specialty cheese retailer or suburban supermarket.
A female kangaroo is known as a 'flyer' or a 'doe' and a male kangaroo a 'buck' or a 'boomer' (hence the nickname of the Australian men's basketball team, the Boomers). They live in social groups called mobs.
brekkie – breakfast
Although it sounds like breakfast for kids, brekkie is the Australian meal everyone has in the morning.
The shoe known in Australia as a “thong” is one of the oldest styles of footwear in the world. Worn with small variations across Egypt, Rome, Greece, sub-Saharan Africa, India, China, Korea, Japan and some Latin American cultures, the shoe was designed to protect the sole while keeping the top of the foot cool.
In Australia and New Zealand, "soft drink" or "fizzy drink" is typically used. In South African English, "cool drink" is any soft drink. U.S. soft drinks 7-Up or Sprite are called "lemonade" in the UK.
Usage notes. Australian, British and New Zealand English uses "chips" for what North Americans call french fries. When confusion would occur between the two meanings, "hot chips" and "cold chips" are used.
Canadians eat a lot of mac and cheese (a lot!)
When it comes to the consumption of boxed mac and cheese, or Kraft Dinner as it's better known, Canadians eat a whopping 55 per cent more of it a year than Americans do. Out of the 7 million boxes sold weekly around the world, Canadians purchase 1.7 million of them.
While it feels like a quintessentially American recipe, it should be no surprise that a cheesy pasta casserole's origins are in ancient Italy - and here's the history of mac and cheese!
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