Mac 'n' cheese...

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Another American import that makes me want to bleach my eyes and ears and permanently damage those who use it, especially on chain pub and restaurant menus
I'm pissed. Well, I will be once I open the wine.
Pissed off as that's another import that creates a different scenario to that intended!

It's an added irritation that the foul stuff is creeping onto menus everywhere, not just as a meal but as a side or garnish.

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You don't like macaroni cheese??!!

My DM used to cook macaroni cheese as a meal back in the 1960s, so it's not that recent and I don't think it's an American import either.

I think the OP means calling macaroni cheese 'mac 'n cheese'.
Which I agree is a horrible Americanism. There are so many more creeping in now, I think because of youtube etc.

Macaroni cheese is completely different to Americans 'mac 'n' cheese'. The latter is a synthetic orange goop of over cooked pasta and has never seen cheese.

Ah, in that case I concur! I hate the term "mac and cheese" as much as I hate "avocado toast".
It's "avocado on toast" people!

As @Crazyeight says, mac 'n' cheese is not macaroni cheese! But I'm not a huge fan of it even in its traditional form. I need a bit more than cheese to liven up pasta.

Please may I join your club, I eat Macaroni Cheese and Avocado on Toast.

I didn’t even know what it was until someone told me. I thought it was a cheeseburger. 🙁

Love it! Hopefully we'll get one of those subway type mac n cheese restaursnts where you can make your own with different toppings. I think it is super fun word.

That doesn't bother me as much as finding the prices on a restaurant menu looking like this:

Mac 'n' cheese ................. 11.5

Yes!!! Mac n Cheese is plastic cheese fast food vs macaroni cheese with a proper cheese mix

Mac n cheese sets my teeth on edge. It’s bloody macaroni cheese!

Also, ‘new years’ - “what are you doing for new years?” 😡

You misunderstand; it's the term mac n cheese that's the import.
Yes, we've had macaroni cheese here for aeons!

smashed avocado if you please. It always has to be 'smashed' for some inexplicable reason

You're walking a very fine liner here, @Rewis !!😀

I absolutely hate Mac n cheese . I don't even call it macaroni cheese but macaroni and cheese - more normal in my area of Scotland.

I always wonder if Americns adopt British words and phrases as much as we seem to have theirs imposed on us.

That’s Kraft Dinner.

Macaroni cheese is a garnish??

Parsley is a garnish.

Macaroni cheese is warming and comforting.

It may be an American invention, I don't know, but If it is it's one of the few things they got right.

I have a theory.

If you call it ‘smashed’, the expectation is that it will be rough looking and customers won’t complain if the avo is slightly mushy and not perfectly sliced.

Hence smashed avo.

What's the different scenario to that intended? Thank you.

In that case, it should be macaroni and cheese, not macaroni cheese. 🤷‍♀️

I raise you....'Slaw'...

I went to a mac ‘n cheese restaurant in the US. They sold macaroni cheese. That’s all they sold.

No, not an American invention! My gripe is the increasing use of the term mac n cheese here!