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!

I can't bear it either. Although I do love Maxaroni cheese. Especially Nigella's with crab. Soooo good!

A bit of a digression, but I made cauliflower cheese mixed up with macaroni and cheese/mac'n'cheese the other day with a bit of leek in it. Was delicious and we'll be having it again.

It's worse ...the young ones say..."based off of" 😨

I don’t like the American version, plus I am allergic to mustard and it often ends up in mac and cheese.

Who Invented Mac and Cheese? | Epicurious
Martino da Como, a.k.a. Maestro Martino, a renowned chef to the aristocracy and high clergy, published a cookbook in 1465 with a butter and cheese based pasta recipe called "Roman macaroni."

cant blame this on usa

I hate macaroni cheese (the dish) no matter what additions there are and how well made it is with strong cheese, mustard powder etc. But not as much as I hate the name mac’n’cheese which really sets my teeth on edge.

It means 11.5 pence, we'll all be pleased to know.

I got the rage recently when Duolingo told me I'd made a mistake for not translating "capodanno" as "new year's".

New year's what??

11.5 pence?!! I wish!!
I think £11.50!

I had to give up Duolingo Spanish because it was Mexican Spanish, not Spanish from Spain and it infuriated me by telling me i was wrong for using 'las palabras veras' - i.e. Spanish Spanish words.
Spose we can blame the 'Murricans for that too.

Well, if they don't make it obvious, I can make it what I like. 😀

I agree, it is macaroni cheese in the UK!

Oh I also hate this!

That’s pretty much pasta surprise, staple of the 1980s student.

The only surprise was which flavour of Campbells condensed soup you’d used.

So did I! I thought it was some sort of special Big Mac with cheese (I'm vegetarian to have no idea whether a Big Mac ordinarily comes with cheese)

I've found my people. I agree with all these irritations and to make matters worse all my young adult children have used them, or variations, in the last few days.

DS2 referred to the dinner I made us as mac 'n' cheese, DD uses "excited for" as default and DS1 said to me this afternoon "I've seen a couple films this week" It's a couple of, dammit, and he's usually pretty pedantic about language 🙄

I've heard "Named for" instead of "Named after" creeping in. Is this another US import?

👍😄

Also Cornstarch instead of Cornflour and Takeout instead of takeaway and for fucks' sake apple sauce is two words

What I hate most about American recipes is that they can't just give me the list of ingredients and the method. Oh no, you've got to get a 2 page essay on how it's their granny's favourite recipe and she used to make it in her little cabin in the woods for 16 members of the family blah blah.

Just tell us how to make the bloody thing!

Absolutely! Just get on with it! Are they paid by the word?

I use YouTube for sewing and knitting techniques but I put the American ones on silent and just FF through the pictures.

Yes, then it's in cups! I ignore any recipe that uses cups now. It's the same with videos. Most of it's taken up with telling us what we're going to learn by watching it.

Bloody lucky he didn't say movies. It's ubiquitous now, to call films 'movies'. I'm so fed up of hearing it.

In fairness, writing is the fun bit. Typing up a recipe, less so.

There’s a Skip To Recipe link on the more professional food blogs. For hobby blogs, if you want their recipe, you get the preamble. They aren’t paid and are doing it for the love of it.

If you can’t give them your attention for 3 paragraphs, choose someone who gets paid to provide recipes like Good Food or The Spruce Eats.

(Oh, and definitely don’t buy the Dishoom cookbook; it’s as least as much travelogue and chat than recipes)

I like the chatty bits about how the recipe came to be. But I read these things for fun

I have an easy fix for y'all. Stop consuming so much American media. Or even better, consume it all you like, but put the brakes on this petty linguistic and culinary xenophobia.