What do you call pasta with cheese sauce?

[Orangio]

So, macaroni pasta with thick cheesy bechamel sauce. Is it...

Macaroni cheese?
Cheesy pasta?
Mac n cheese?
Something else?

What do you call it, and where are you from?

Ah @Orangio , me too! I don't mind Mac n cheese, however if there is no Mac involved it's neither.

Mac n cheese here - even when I've run out of macaroni and used another pasta shape!

Yup - all the best macaroni cheese has bacon bits in it.

Macaroni cheese if it's baked oven and has a crusty cheesy top (sometimes with a handful of breadcrumbs). Otherwise, cheesy pasta. Never Mac and cheese though. Am from Belfast.

Macaroni and cheese or mac and cheese. Georgia.

But traditional Southern mac and cheese is not made with bechamel; it's a savory custard concoction mixed with the pasta and baked with a crispy breadcrumb and butter topping.

Oh I'm Midlands by the way.

I don't like Mac n Cheese pie as it's always too dry. Overbaked IMO.

Macaroni cheese, regardless of pasta. Occasionally, maccie cheese.

Macaroni cheese, even when made with other shapes.....

Pasta with cheese/cheesy pasta if it's just a cheesy sauce.
Macaroni cheese if it's macaroni and baked in the oven.

all the best macaroni cheese has bacon bits in it.
chorizo is better.

Macaroni cheese or cheesy pasta.

Don't, because that would be nothing at all like a carbonara.

Macaroni AND cheese is my default. Never macaroni cheese, that just sounds wrong. Occasionally mac 'n' cheese or cheesy pasta. I'm from NE Scotland.

Yes, Mac n' (or and) Cheese is what young people and trendy restaurants call it nowadays. I think the name was originally invented by Kraft on their instant packet one sold in the US. The US term has just become more popular because of You Tube and the like.

It was always Macaroni Cheese to me, but language changes I guess. Incidentally OP I like that macaroni is a sort of adopted Scottish pasta that comes in tartan packets.

https://www.scottishproduce.co.uk/acatalog/Marshall-s-Macaroni-3537.html

And of course only a Scot would go that one step further and put it in a pie...

https://scottishscran.com/scottish-macaroni-pie-recipe/

I think it should be Macaroni and Cheese, but I've always called it Macaroni Cheese, or cheesy pasta bake if not made with macaroni. I'm from London but now live in S England. Have you tried Nadiya Hussain's version with Wotsits crumbled into the mix...? www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/mac_and_cheesy_81730 😋

Same as some others, macaroni cheese if using macaroni, cheesy pasta if using any other type of pasta.

Same here.

Macaroni cheese. Mac and cheese is American but I see everyone's saying it now.

Macaroni cheese if it's made with Macaroni. Cheesy pasta otherwise.

Macaroni cheese, regardless of pasta used and whether it goes in the oven or not.
I have a weird dislike of it being called mac n cheese for some reason.

Macaroni cheese if the pasta is macaroni but pasta cheese if other pasta

Mac 'n cheese. US midwest.

Macaroni cheese, from Yorkshire.

This.

Same but we aren't in Essex. Americans in Wales.