Macaroni & cheese is as American as apple pie, the color of the person eating it has nothing to do with anything.
Agreed. :)
Mac and cheese is also a staple of ‘soul food’, or traditional black ethnic cuisine. Serving it at family holidays might be proudly claimed a ‘black thing’ the way serving lasagna as a dish at Thanksgiving might be considered an ‘Italian thing’. The only reason it is newsworthy is because it was a conservative white man inquiring and that makes it un-PC.
If they said macaroni and cheese - he wouldn’t have asked that question. The first time my son said it - I asked what is that? I assumed it was short for a Big Mac w/cheese but wanted to be sure. Didn’t think of macaroni and cheese which I’ve made for them many times.
Sigh... and I haven’t had any in years. I tried making it once with the mixed cheese stores sell in Japan, but it just wasn’t the same without cheddar.