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When our children were young they had a kitchen play set. Included were foods made out of plastic. One item was a slice of orange cheese. Ever since we’ve called process cheese slices Fisher Price cheese.
Add some tuna, peas, pearl onions and you’ll have another dish. Add sliced up sausage or hot dogs instead of the tuna and you’ll have another. And bacon or chicken, or, as Baucava mentions, bacon and chicken. There are numerous variations one can try. Have fun.
Growing up in the 60’s in a family where only the Dad worked and there were four kids to feed we had mac and cheese (usually accompanied by boiled hot dogs) on an all too frequent basis. When I enlisted and left home at 18 I would not touch mac and cheese (nor hot dogs) for several decades. By my 40’s I found I actually enjoyed it, and still do, but for a long while it was absolutely verboten!
Frazz16 hrs · I get so impatient with people who are addicted to comfort. But I understand it, too. Comfort is, by analogy that might as well be definition, the ultimate Nice Place to Visit but You Wouldn’t Want to Live There. Except comfort’s whole schtick is to feel like the way you DO want to live, forever. It’s insidious.
One of my favorite songs, from the moment I first heard it, is Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb.” It’s also a terrifying song, the way it combines the two. Which is good, because otherwise I could see myself listening to it all day for the rest of my life, or at least until very late in my life, when I went, “whoops,” and had to cue up that other Pink Floyd song about “and then one day you find ten years have got behind you.”
I’m fortunate. I have to come up with a brand new short story each day and put it out there for the world’s approval. I’ll never have to worry about comfort as long as I’m doing that.
When I was in college (not when dinosaurs roamed the earth; it was mammoths and saber tooths) I read an article in the paper about a student who wanted to prove to his mother that he was eating reasonably healthy meals, so he saved every box of Kraft Mac and Cheese that he bought. Eventually, he “papered” the walls of his apartment kitchen with the boxes. He sent a photo of it to the Kraft people; I have always wondered why they didn’t use it for a advertisement.
rshive over 4 years ago
Many days, apparently.
Sanspareil over 4 years ago
Should be called macaroni and some alien powder with cheese aspects if you’re lucky.
HappyDog/ᵀʳʸ ᴮᵒᶻᵒ ⁴ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠᵘⁿ ᵒᶠ ᶦᵗ Premium Member over 4 years ago
Not orange, more like grey. How are you feeling?
Geophyzz over 4 years ago
Mac & cheese would be my discomfort food.
sandpiper over 4 years ago
Sometimes too much of a good thing can take the shine off our favorites. Then even the ignored stuff looks good.
cervelo over 4 years ago
When our children were young they had a kitchen play set. Included were foods made out of plastic. One item was a slice of orange cheese. Ever since we’ve called process cheese slices Fisher Price cheese.
momofalex7 over 4 years ago
Sometimes I think I’m the only person in the world who doesn’t like mac and cheese.
Baucuva over 4 years ago
One of our local restaurants here makes a four cheese macaroni with chicken and bacon. It’s delicious!
Teto85 Premium Member over 4 years ago
Add some tuna, peas, pearl onions and you’ll have another dish. Add sliced up sausage or hot dogs instead of the tuna and you’ll have another. And bacon or chicken, or, as Baucava mentions, bacon and chicken. There are numerous variations one can try. Have fun.
Moonkey Premium Member over 4 years ago
I just lost my appetite for lunch.
Richard S Russell Premium Member over 4 years ago
Eat lots of carrots (LOTS of carrots) and you can turn more than just your eyes orange.
cosman over 4 years ago
Things one could do with a box of Mac..
sml7291 Premium Member over 4 years ago
Growing up in the 60’s in a family where only the Dad worked and there were four kids to feed we had mac and cheese (usually accompanied by boiled hot dogs) on an all too frequent basis. When I enlisted and left home at 18 I would not touch mac and cheese (nor hot dogs) for several decades. By my 40’s I found I actually enjoyed it, and still do, but for a long while it was absolutely verboten!
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 4 years ago
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Frazz16 hrs · I get so impatient with people who are addicted to comfort. But I understand it, too. Comfort is, by analogy that might as well be definition, the ultimate Nice Place to Visit but You Wouldn’t Want to Live There. Except comfort’s whole schtick is to feel like the way you DO want to live, forever. It’s insidious.
One of my favorite songs, from the moment I first heard it, is Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb.” It’s also a terrifying song, the way it combines the two. Which is good, because otherwise I could see myself listening to it all day for the rest of my life, or at least until very late in my life, when I went, “whoops,” and had to cue up that other Pink Floyd song about “and then one day you find ten years have got behind you.”
I’m fortunate. I have to come up with a brand new short story each day and put it out there for the world’s approval. I’ll never have to worry about comfort as long as I’m doing that.
ZBicyclist Premium Member over 4 years ago
Kraft Mac and Cheese — if you have to make it for your kid and there are leftovers, add salsa or hot sauce to make it edible.
DKHenderson about 1 month ago
When I was in college (not when dinosaurs roamed the earth; it was mammoths and saber tooths) I read an article in the paper about a student who wanted to prove to his mother that he was eating reasonably healthy meals, so he saved every box of Kraft Mac and Cheese that he bought. Eventually, he “papered” the walls of his apartment kitchen with the boxes. He sent a photo of it to the Kraft people; I have always wondered why they didn’t use it for a advertisement.