That’s So Canadian item #4: Kraft Dinner
[note: we’re beginning at four because I’m sure I’ve already condescended to at least three other adorable Canadian things…]
Kraft Dinner is a Canadian phenomenon first introduced to me within a conversation about being an impoverished student. While discussing survival techniques, someone casually mentioned “eating only Kraft Dinner” for six months, to which everyone else nodded knowingly. I said nothing, and filed it away in the “I wonder what the hell they’re talking about” file.
The next night I was watching TV and I saw a commercial for the following product:
That is correct, “Kraft Dinner” is f#*#ing Macaroni and Cheese.
I brought this up the following day at work.
“So, Kraft Dinner, that’s mac and cheese, right?”
“Mac and cheese? What’s mac?”
“Macaroni”
“Oh, yeah, it’s pasta and cheese” [please pronounce the word “paah-sta”]
“So it’s mac and cheese”
“It’s Kraft Dinner.”
“But it’s mac and cheese.”
“It’s Kraft Dinner.”
It’s Kraft Dinner. That’s Sooooooo Canadian.
