KD set to lose it's bright orange colour

[Diznygrl]

I think in Canada when you cook macaroni and add tomatoes and ground beef we call it goulash for some reason.

Haha, that's exactly what my mom calls that stuff. She was born and raised in North Dakota.

 

[leebee]

Can someone please explain "PC white cheddar" stuff?

I like a little ketchup with my boxed macaroni and cheese, but usually with the store brand, not Kraft. We think Kraft is the "cadillac of the boxed macaroni and cheese," as DD put it when I told her about the change! When we were kids, my mom would make homemade mac-n-cheese (and it's amazing… ) and something she called "winter chili sauce" to serve with it. I don't have the recipe at hand, but it called for using the meat grinder to crush up an amazing number of tomatoes and a whole onion as the base of the recipe. It also had sugar, cloves, garlic, and maybe some ground up celery, too? She'd "can" it in mason jars and we'd eat it year round as a condiment. Yum, yum… I might have to find a meat grinder and make a batch!

I also like to buy my sliced American cheese at the deli. I can get it sliced far more thinly than the prepackaged stuff, and it has a different texture. I especially abhor the "individually wrapped" stuff. It takes a fake food and makes it even more fake, all flabby and gross.

Any other questions to contemplate (tangential or otherwise)?

 

[Disneylover99]

Can someone please explain "PC white cheddar" stuff?

President's Choice white cheddar macaroni and cheese. Yum!

 

[mommasita]

President's Choice white cheddar macaroni and cheese. Yum!

Really? My daughter hates the no name.
I can't eat cheese, so I have no voice..LOL

 

[Disneylover99]

Really? My daughter hates the no name.
I can't eat cheese, so I have no voice..LOL

I hate the no name too. PC is not the no name.

 

[minnie mum]

I think in Canada when you cook macaroni and add tomatoes and ground beef we call it goulash for some reason.

Yep. Add in some chopped onion and celery and that is exactly what my Mother called it. I have no idea where the name came from, since it bears no resemblance to a real goulash.

 

[SirDuff]

Yep. Add in some chopped onion and celery and that is exactly what my Mother called it. I have no idea where the name came from, since it bears no resemblance to a real goulash.

Funny the things you learn. I've never heard of goulash that involved macaroni, ground beef, or tomatoes!

And, yes, PC and No Name (though both Loblaw's (in Ontario) store brands) are very different.

 

[Disneylover99]

I think in Canada when you cook macaroni and add tomatoes and ground beef we call it goulash for some reason.

It was called macaroni casserole in our house and my mom always added Heinz Chili sauce.
Goulash for us was tomatoes, ground beef and rice, not pasta.

 

[JanaDee]

I think in Canada when you cook macaroni and add tomatoes and ground beef we call it goulash for some reason.

It's goulash here, too.

 

[ronandannette]

Stewed tomatoes and macaroni & cheese are the classic side dishes for Friday night fried fish dinner. But they're kept SEPARATE!!! You don't put the stewed tomatoes IN the mac & cheese!!! You krazy Kanucks!!!!

Yuck - seriously yuck. I cannot stand fish and dairy together. Everybody (at least all of the Queen's loyal subjects ) know that the ONLY things that should be "on the side" with fried fish is chips (with or without gravy), coleslaw, and maybe mushy peas.

 

[bcla]

Can someone please explain "PC white cheddar" stuff?

I like a little ketchup with my boxed macaroni and cheese, but usually with the store brand, not Kraft. We think Kraft is the "cadillac of the boxed macaroni and cheese," as DD put it when I told her about the change! When we were kids, my mom would make homemade mac-n-cheese (and it's amazing… ) and something she called "winter chili sauce" to serve with it. I don't have the recipe at hand, but it called for using the meat grinder to crush up an amazing number of tomatoes and a whole onion as the base of the recipe. It also had sugar, cloves, garlic, and maybe some ground up celery, too? She'd "can" it in mason jars and we'd eat it year round as a condiment. Yum, yum… I might have to find a meat grinder and make a batch!

I also like to buy my sliced American cheese at the deli. I can get it sliced far more thinly than the prepackaged stuff, and it has a different texture. I especially abhor the "individually wrapped" stuff. It takes a fake food and makes it even more fake, all flabby and gross.

Any other questions to contemplate (tangential or otherwise)?

Cadillac? I think of it more like the Toyota Corolla of boxed mac and cheese. Kind of boring, utterly reliable, and relatively inexpensive. None of the mainstream brands really capture the premium end of the market. If there's any well known brand that's the high end, it might be Annie's.

As for Kraft Singles or the like - they're not really sliced. That stuff is more like a spray on cheese-like substance. However, the genius of individually wrapped "slices" is that they don't stick to each other, (which might break when separated) and an unused piece is still hygienic until unwrapped.

 

[lizabu]

Cadillac? I think of it more like the Toyota Corolla of boxed mac and cheese. Kind of boring, utterly reliable, and relatively inexpensive. None of the mainstream brands really capture the premium end of the market. If there's any well known brand that's the high end, it might be Annie's.

As for Kraft Singles or the like - they're not really sliced. That stuff is more like a spray on cheese-like substance. However, the genius of individually wrapped "slices" is that they don't stick to each other, (which might break when separated) and an unused piece is still hygienic until unwrapped.

My parents bought the stuff in the yellow box so if we got real KD we considered it to be the fancy stuff...lol

 

[bcla]

My parents bought the stuff in the yellow box so if we got real KD we considered it to be the fancy stuff...lol

In college I remember seeing it on sale for something like $2 for a 5-pack. Maybe not Top Ramen cheap, but I could still afford it.

Kraft does have "Deluxe" mac and cheese or Velveeta Shells and Cheese with a semi-liquid cheese sauce in a bag. It does cost more though than the regular blue box, but you don't need to add milk or margarine. It's never lumpy, and the sauce isn't watery like the blue box. That stuff is almost perfect for camping or backpacking. After a long day hauling my butt up and down rocks, I felt like a king eating simple comfort food. Does Kraft sell the equivalent up north?

 

[Cruisin]

Another "goulash" person here.

Also love Kraft Dinner but definitely no ketchup on it for me.

 

[Sparkly]

I'm in the home-made macaroni and cheese all the way camp! Never had the Kraft stuff but I tried bright yellow mac & cheese at Disney once- hated it! It tasted so foul compared to the cheesy delicious homemade stuff, put under the grill for 5 mins to brown the top.....droool. I hate being lactose intolerant sometimes.

 

[ronandannette]

I'm in the home-made macaroni and cheese all the way camp! Never had the Kraft stuff but I tried bright yellow mac & cheese at Disney once- hated it! It tasted so foul compared to the cheesy delicious homemade stuff, put under the grill for 5 mins to brown the top.....droool. I hate being lactose intolerant sometimes.

Never? Never once? I don't think I've ever met a person who's never had it. While lots of people would say they don't like it, it is practically a pantry staple. DH and DS had it for supper last night because they were on their own and it was, well...there.

 

[pat fan]

something she called "winter chili sauce" to serve with it. I don't have the recipe at hand, but it called for using the meat grinder to crush up an amazing number of tomatoes and a whole onion as the base of the recipe. It also had sugar, cloves, garlic, and maybe some ground up celery, too? She'd "can" it in mason jars and we'd eat it year round as a condiment. Yum, yum… I might have to find a meat grinder and make a batch!

I think my DH's grandmother made something similar and it was called Lickin' Good Relish. It was amazing!

 

[pat fan]

Funny the things you learn. I've never heard of goulash that involved macaroni, ground beef, or tomatoes!

That's what we call it (no cheese involved). That or American Chop Suey. Names seem to be interchangeable, but ingredients are the same. Ground beef, tomato sauce, macaroni. Although my Dh's mother made it with a can of tomato soup She was not a good cook.

 

[Sparkly]

Never? Never once? I don't think I've ever met a person who's never had it. While lots of people would say they don't like it, it is practically a pantry staple. DH and DS had it for supper last night because they were on their own and it was, well...there.

British, we don't have it here. I think the nearest we have is packet mixes to make mac & cheese.

 

[bcla]

British, we don't have it here. I think the nearest we have is packet mixes to make mac & cheese.

This is supposed to be the British equivalent (with three Es):

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...Cheese-41-000-sign-petition-ban-additive.html

If you look at the pictures, these two women obtained a box of the British equivalent (without any artificial food dyes), and it actually looks more radioactive orange than the American version - that looks more pale yellow.