Daisy wrote:
> I have only ever known macaroni cheese as a nursery food, or a dish
> served to small children. It is frequently served for lunch at one
> of my grandchildren's daycare centres, and I have made it often for
> the smaller grandchildren when they visit.
>
> Is this commonly eaten by adults in the USA? I don't think I ever
> saw it on a dinner menu at restaurants there.
>
> Just curious.
>
> Daisy
>
> Carthage demands an explanation for this insolence!

It's been a dinner menu item in my family and my parents' family for a
generation at least. The reason would be it's inexpensive and tastes good.

In the southern U.S. it's common on dinner menus, but oddly it is listed as
a "vegetable". Now, you and I both know macaroni & cheese is not a
vegetable but there you have it, right on the menu. Down here in the
southern U.S. they also offer "cobbler" (a fruit pie) as a vegetable. So go
figure.

Jill
Jill