Kraft dinner

Kraft Dinner is Canada's national dish and the most popular grocery item in the country. These inexpensive blue-yellow boxes of macaroni and cheese started to rise in popularity in 1937, during the Great Depression, with the promise that you could feed a family of four for just 19 cents per box.

The meal was invented by a salesman who attached grated cheese to boxes of pasta. Eight million boxes were sold in the first year, each one containing instant, bite-sized tubular noodles and a briny, orange-colored, sweet and sour cheese sauce. Kraft Dinner or KD (also called macaroni and cheese in the USA) is cheap, fast, and easy to prepare - and perhaps that is the reason why it stood the test of time.