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January 31, 2005
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One of my favorite comfort foods from childhood is macaroni and cheese. Twelve minutes, pasta, a packet of strange powder, some boiling water, milk and butter combine into the tastiest bowl of ruddy artificial orange poison I can imagine. For some reason, it is linked to so many good memories. Cooking with my sisters, frozen weenies being embedded in walls, the usual stories.
As my cholesterol and heart disease waxed, the bowl of creamy noodles waned in my diet. Taken in moderation, it is merely bad for you. However, those boxes are supposedly four portions. I don't take it in four meals. I put it all in one bowl, grab a giant spoon, and eat.
And eat. And eat. The whole 100+ percent of the fat, all two million grams of salt, and the various scary preservatives distend my stomach, growling and grumbling in an attempt to digest such a massive meal.
Matt made some serious homemade macaroni and cheese. It was delicious in a different way, a quality way.
Tonight I cracked open an emergency box. Maybe I just miss my mom, maybe I just miss my family, maybe I just miss sketchy meals that tempt the fates and my cholesterol count.
It was delicious, and now I can't move.
Posted by G at January 31, 2005 09:03 PM
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Back in college, when I was running out of money, I went for the cheap boxes of mac & cheese. Not the fancy ones with the packet of Velveeta (or whatever Kraft puts in there). No, these were the ones with powder (as you described), and I actually liked them better than the "good" stuff.
Yeah, I have terribly refined tastes. :)
Posted by: Jess at January 31, 2005 09:23 PM
Cheesy pasta... I just don't get you Americans.
But I guess you think the same thing about us and chicken feet.
Posted by: jase at February 1, 2005 12:41 AM
Yeah, for some reason the "good" boxes of Mac & Cheese just never did it for me...give me powdered cheese any time! (Yeah, this from the same guy who demands gorgonzola stuffed olives in his martinis...go figure)
Posted by: Alan at February 1, 2005 08:07 AM
With all the eating and problem with moving issues, I think I'm gonna have to call you a tow truck. :)
Posted by: palochi at February 1, 2005 01:55 PM
I love mac and cheeze but haven't made it in ages. I spotted in the supermarket the other day that Country Croock now makes a comtainer of it ready-made to be heated up. I got one sittin' in the fridge to try. Luckily, I've gotta system that keeps cholesterol levels down well within normal levels.
Posted by: Lee at February 1, 2005 04:14 PM
I made Grandma's homemade baked macaroni and cheese last week. My kids all looked at me like I had killed the Kraft family. I suppose I should be grateful that they wanted the easy stuff. So this week, it's back to the orange powder package. Please don't tell my Grandma.
Posted by: pua at February 1, 2005 05:11 PM
Mac and Cheese, while bad for the heart, is soooo good for the soul.
Posted by: Jeremy at February 1, 2005 08:30 PM
My white trash addition to the box of mac & cheese is those French fried onion thingys.
Posted by: homer at February 2, 2005 01:56 PM
OH MY GOD
MUST... HAVE... MAC... AND CHEESE... NOW!!
Posted by: MzOuiser at February 2, 2005 06:51 PM
Although if you had waited until summer to experiment with that hole in the wall, your weenie wouldn't have frozen.
But I understand the immediacy.
Posted by: MzOuiser at February 2, 2005 06:52 PM
My sister and I were having a fight about who would make the mac and cheese. She chunked a frozer wiener at my head, I ducked, and it made a huge dent in the wall. My mother wondered for years how the dent had been created.
Posted by: Glenn at February 2, 2005 07:39 PM