Frazz by Jef Mallett for November 14, 2020

Many days, apparently.

Should be called macaroni and some alien powder with cheese aspects if you’re lucky.

Not orange, more like grey. How are you feeling?

Mac & cheese would be my discomfort food.

Sometimes too much of a good thing can take the shine off our favorites. Then even the ignored stuff looks good.

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.

Sometimes I think I’m the only person in the world who doesn’t like mac and cheese.

One of our local restaurants here makes a four cheese macaroni with chicken and bacon. It’s delicious!

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.

I just lost my appetite for lunch.

Eat lots of carrots (LOTS of carrots) and you can turn more than just your eyes orange.

Things one could do with a box of Mac..

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!

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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.

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.