My wife bought this thinking it was tinned Mac and cheese. It isn’t. It’s custard with pasta in it. Can anyone explain why this exists?

by chef39

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  1. Many childhood memories easting this or rice pudding at my granny’s.

    This is just macaroni pudding. Sweet in flavour like rice pudding. Throw back from the Victorian eral, that’s always hung around.

  3. I love it, but my god, it’s gotten beyond expensive, but no-one does a value version like rice pudding 🙁

  4. People that want diabetes? Blood sugar disaster in a can.

  5. It’s a simple twist on rice pudding no?

    I don’t think it’s any odder than rice pudding or bread and butter pudding.

  6. There’s a few in this range and we were trying to remember the other day which was which. One is like gritty custard, another has frogspawn in it, another is rice.

    All desserts from my childhood which you could mix chocolate drops into and make a right mess!

  7. Is it much different to the Heinz one? I had that occasionally in my childhood, but wouldn’t touch it now.

  8. Maaan, macaroni pudding was my favourite as a kid! Didn’t know ambrosia did it, I’m gonna have to go get some!

  9. Oooh I would. It’s lovely with a blob of jam. Who’d want tinned macaroni cheese?

  10. Apparently people do indeed enjoy this. My dad has just confirmed he ate it growing up!

  11. It sounds like what we knew as milk pudding. Fantastic baked with nutmeg, so it gets a crust on top.

  12. Definitely back in the day a lot of folks thought pasta/rice belonged in milk puddings!

  14. My mum refuses to eat macaroni cheese, because her mum always used to say to her “Macaroni is a puddin’!” Because of this, she refuses to even consider anything containing macaroni as a savoury course.

  15. I don’t know what I would expect, but it wouldn’t be custard pasta.

  17. Loved me some ambrosia rice pudding, birds packet semolina…and sago, although I think I was in the minority with the sago

  19. Mum used to make Macaroni Pudding for me one when I was a kid. This or Rice Pudding.

  20. Perfectly good British pudding most popular in the 60’s and 70’s. Twas a staple of school and staff canteen menus.

  21. This, semolina, rice pudding, custard – classic and filling sweet treats

  23. This, rice pudding, semolina and tapioca were the pinnacle of cheap tinned desserts. Might have been a nasty surprise getting this when you wanted something savoury though

  26. You people will stick rice in a pudding and happily chow down but you clutch your pearls at some macaroni. Unbelievable.

  27. Who buys tinned Mac & Cheese out of choice anyway??? Feel like no one has talked about that.

  28. I’m not huge on maraconi pudding, but I love semolina, rice pudding, and quite like tapioca, and of course custard! In the Philippines there’s also a macaroni salad, which is kind of similar!

  29. Custard with pasta?? Pffttt…

    Macaroni pudding is the best!

  31. The comments here make me think I’ve slipped into an alternate reality. Always had desserts like custard, rice pudding, semolina, etc growing up and I’ve literally never come across this. Has it been absent from shops for 40+ years?

  33. It’s an old traditional English dessert. Times have changed and most have forgotten about it. I saw an old restaurant menu from the 1800s recently and it had creamed macaroni on the dessert menu.

  34. I love rice pudding and I actually want to try all of them, so me I’d eat it.

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