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?

Speaking as a chef I'd call that a quick mac n cheese sauce. Usually if I'm making mac n cheese I'd put both milk and cream in the sauce, and extra cheese (including gryuere). For a bechamel to make either parmos or lasagne I wouldn't use cream, it would be a slightly thicker consistency and there would be less cheese 😁

This made me laugh 😀

Past Carabananarama

Mac and cheese in Canada. But like others have said noodle shape matters a bit. Spaghettini shape with cheese would be an abomination (unless white cheese and bacon) carbonara.
not sure what I envisioned for “cheesy pasta” but it sounded bad and made my eyebrows twitch.

• Pasta Carabananarama 😋

Macaroni Cheese (South East). If it's some other pasta, then it's pasta and cheese sauce.

Macaroni cheese (can’t abide the term Mac and Cheese, I’m not American).

Macaroni cheese . But if it's different shaped pasta and has something else in like peas or broccoli then it's cheesy pasta .

Midlands

Cheesy pasta is pasta, butter and grated cheese rather than a cheese sauce. Preferably with coquilettes although tagliatelle also works. Macaroni cheese is another dish entirely. HTH.

Mac and cheese here! Also we have ‘spag bol’, when it’s more of a ragu with pappardelle.

I had this whole confusing conversation with DH - who is half Jamaican - about how come Jamaican culture is so keen on an Italian dish.

I had no idea that it’s not actually totally Italian but was brought to the US and made famous during the slavery era.

It was an extremely confusing conversation.

Woah, macaroni pies are Scottish? I had no idea! I assumed they were just everywhere. Do you not have them in NI/England/Wales then? I'm so sorry, but you are really missing out! A proper one from a bakery, with lots of thick sauce... 🤤

Macaroni cheese, irrespective of the pasta shape. London.

I think the macaroni cheese vs mac ‘n’ cheese divide is probably more of an age thing than a regional thing.