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My parents are from Canada, and when my dad was in the Navy in the 1980s, he was deployed to the UK. His biggest story is that they couldn’t buy peanut butter a
by Naga 4y ago
My parents are from Canada, and when my dad was in the Navy in the 1980s, he was deployed to the UK. His biggest story is that they couldn’t buy peanut butter and Kraft Dinner except at the Base, which was obviously a problem. I travelled to the UK recently and asked someone there about those two items. Peanut butter is available now, but not that popular, but Kraft Dinner was unknown and frankly seemed disgusting to her! Which is fair, but its comfort food in Canada.
- samatman 4y agoI wonder what confusion led to this, macaroni cheese (no `and`) has been a British staple for centuries. Boxed macaroni cheese can be purchased at every Tesco as "cheesy pasta". Judging it to be disgusting I would agree with, but 'unknown'? By no means.
- Naga 4y agoKraft Dinner (or just KD( is something special though! It's not just boxed macaroni and cheese, it has a fake cheese neon orange sauce (at least it used to, now it's apparently safer) with its own special taste. It's peak Canadian comfort food that the other boxed meals don't match. They're all gross, but KD has no peers.
- whylo 4y ago> Peanut butter is available now, but not that popular I might be an outlier but my family eats peanut butter all the time, and you wouldn't have any trouble finding it even in small local shops. Peanut butter and j(elly|am) sandwiches are less popular but I maintain that they're America's greatest export.