Macaroni Salad

This is one of the classic components of a Hawaiian plate lunch — the others being rice, iceberg salad and some sort of meat (teriyaki, sweet and sour or similar). It should be made with ‘macaroni’ (such as maccheroncini), but I like it at least as well with cavatappi. The macaroni salad is in some ways like coleslaw, except that almost all the healthy part of slaw (already in a minority) has been removed and replaced with processed starch. Small wonder Hawaii performs so well