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macaroni

or mac·ca·ro·ni

[ mak-uh-roh-nee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural mac·a·ro·nis, mac·a·ro·nies

small, tubular pasta prepared from wheat flour.
an English dandy of the 18th century who affected Continental mannerisms, clothes, etc.

macaroni

/ ˌmækəˈrəʊnɪ /

1590–1600; earlier maccaroni < dialectal Italian, plural of maccarone ( Italian maccherone ). See macaroon

C16: from Italian (Neapolitan dialect) maccarone, probably from Greek makaria food made from barley

In ‘non-cooking’ prisons they still sold raw macaroni but if you boiled water to cook it you were breaking the law.

They would soak bags of macaroni to make dough, roll it out and create dumplings, which they sold with a side of lo mein.

To cook the macaroni the commissary sold hotpots, which you needed a permit to possess and could only buy one a time.

And no matter what else a person eats, it is de rigueur to get an order of baked macaroni and cheese on the side.

Telling poor children that that fourth box of macaroni and cheese is excessive is something very different.

This monstrous medley gave birth to the macaroni style, the very climax of barbarism.

Put some ounces of macaroni into boiling stock, then add any game cut into small joints three parts cooked.

Seven of the ten brands of recommended macaroni, noodles, etc., contained over 70 per cent.

Let it all boil till the macaroni is tender, then add a tablespoonful of Parmesan cheese and an ounce of butter.

The Macaroni Club was to the last century what Crockford's was to this.

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