Me neither. The basic standard pasta dish in the eighties and nineties in the Netherlands was macaroni or spaghetti with bolognese sauce topped with lots of gra

Me neither. The basic standard pasta dish in the eighties and nineties in the Netherlands was macaroni or spaghetti with bolognese sauce topped with lots of grated Gouda cheese. These days there is much more variety, and judging from the popularity of the many varieties of pasta and cheeses such as Pecorino and Parmesan in the supermarkets, many Dutch household have discovered the joys of cooking proper Italian pasta dishes. Plenty of folk here do use store-bought packages for the sauce of course, but these tend to focus on adding flavour to the meat and vegetables (tomato) that serve as the bulk of the sauce (like bolognese). Frankly, the classic US mac-and-cheese dish looks disgusting. I can only imagine how it must look to someone with an Italian heritage.