lesson in food

If I never eat Kraft Easy Mac again, it will be too soon.

Y'all know that I eat mac & cheese for lunch every single day. I love it. However, I don't love all mac & cheese. I love Annie's. Trader Joes is ok too. But Annie's has a microwavable pack that I can bring to work, very much like Kraft Easy Mac. It's delicious. It makes me rub my tummy and float in the air like that cartoon dog, Snuffles.

Recently I couldn't make it to TJ's or even Whole Foods to buy my normal Annie's. I had the regular box kind, but I'm very lazy and would rather microwave something at work than cook 3 days' worth of food and keep it. So I ran to the local ghetto superstore. They have Kraft Easy Mac*. I bought it. I brung it to work. I cooked it.

The yellow powder ("cheese") looks like sawdust shavings from a pencil factory. It takes 30 seconds longer than Annie's to cook. I'm a busy gal - I only have a 1/2 hour for lunch. I need those 30 seconds. The "cheese" gets all melty and stringy. It looks and tastes like dog vomit - the kind that would happen if a small dog ate pencil shavings and then threw them up into a microwavable bowl filled with water. It made my stomach hurt in ways that are entirely unnatural and uneased by all sorts of medicine. It leaves a horrible bitter taste in the mouth (again like what I imagine pencil shaving-dog barf tastes like) that can't be quelched with even the strongest mints. In fact, thinking about it makes me want to throw up a lot.

Lesson learned: Don't eat Kraft Easy Mac. Only eat Annie's.




*They have very very recently started carrying Annie's, but not the microwavable kind yet.




ps - Annie's website has the best t-shirt ever, a picture of a rabbit butt that says "push tail to open" just like on the boxes of mac & cheese. But they only have size XXL right now and that's multiple boats too big.