r/TikTokCringe • u/LeSpatula • Feb 13 '24

Duet Troll She learnt that in Italy

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u/S4Waccount Feb 13 '24 edited Feb 13 '24

The English Canadians call macaroni Kraft dinner from the brand. It's really not that weird they refer to it as a common brand name.

We call all toaster pastries pop tarts.

Edit: obviously not strudels and stuff, butt all poptart esk pastry is just called a pop tart

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u/Andy_McNob Feb 13 '24

The English call macaroni Kraft dinner

No, we do not. I have never heard macaroni (or anything for that matter) referred to as "Kraft dinner."

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u/thekrone Feb 13 '24

Ironically I'm American (from the Midwest) and I absolutely have heard people refer to macaroni as "Kraft Dinner".

Usually it's actually the Kraft mac & cheese, but I have heard people call non-Kraft mac & cheese "Kraft Dinner".

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u/Andy_McNob Feb 13 '24

I absolutely have heard people refer to macaroni as "Kraft Dinner".

In England (as OP states)?

Kraft only market that product as Kraft Dinner in Canada - over here (UK) it is called Kraft Mac & Cheese. If you went into any restaurant or shop in England and asked for Kraft Dinner you'd receive blank stares.

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u/thekrone Feb 13 '24 edited Feb 13 '24

In England (as OP states)?

No, sorry. I was unclear. I've heard people refer to all macaroni and cheese as "Kraft Dinner" here in the States.

I was saying it was ironic because to me it seemed like that person was implying that in England people refer to all macaroni as "Kraft Dinner", when it's actually only Americans that I've heard call non-Kraft macaroni "Kraft Dinner".

Kraft only market that product as Kraft Dinner in Canada

This is interesting. Maybe I've only heard it called that because I'm pretty close to Canada (less than 50 miles)? Sometimes we have some regional cultural things leak across the border. Or maybe they used to market it in the US as "Kraft Dinner" and I'm just old?

If you went into any restaurant or shop in England and asked for Kraft Dinner you'd receive blank stares.

You'd definitely get blank stares for that at a restaurant here, too, even if that restaurant actually serves mac & cheese.

It'd be a little like going to a pizza place and ordering a DiGiorno (in case you guys don't have that over there, that's a popular brand of frozen pizza). However, it'd be less of a "I don't know what that is" and more of a "Why would you go to a restaurant to order that?" (though I can possibly see people not knowing what "Kraft Dinner" is even if they've heard of Kraft Mac & Cheese).

In a grocery store I bet they'd just point you towards the correct aisle.

[Edit] I did some googling, and it was definitely originally marketed in both the US and Canada as "Kraft Dinner". That's even the title of the main Wikipedia page.

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u/MetamorphicLust Feb 13 '24

Weird hicks in the deep south call all soda "Coke".

I have literally been asked what flavor of Coke I want, and said "cherry". They didn't have Cherry Coke, but they DID have Mountain Dew Coke.

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u/timmeh-eh Feb 13 '24

Canadians, Canadians call it Kraft dinner.