Macaroni and cheese on the menu

[andiesenji]

Today's Gear Patrol Dispatch included this "World's Best" Mac & Cheese.

Plus a $10.00 "service fee shipping to California."

Now I am a big fan of Mac & Cheese but there is NO WAY I would spend this much on any version.

One would think they had applied gold leaf, or something.

[DanM]

The Lee Brother's Southern Cookbook not only treats Mac and Cheese as a side, but counts it as a vegetable based on their experience in school.

To me, it can go either way, it depends on what type of mac and cheese and my desire for other foods at the same time.

[Boilerfood]

Always a main course in my home (born and raised in Ohio). I usually see it as a side in the restaurants around here though.

[avaserfi]

We typically eat it as a main, but there are certain times when it makes the perfect side. Why choose just one or the other?

[AmyKay]

I spent the first 30 years in Texas, where Mac & Cheese was always a side in my experience.

[lesliec]

Down here in the South Pacific (I claim the prize for 'deepest south') we always had it as a main. When I was growing up it was the sort of thing we might have on a Sunday evening in front of the fire and/or TV, but it was always a meal in its own right.

Having now discovered the Modernist Cuisine version, I've served it a couple of times now as a side. I don't think I've really formed a preference, but with the MC version allowing - indeed encouraging - the inclusion of really good cheese, and the associated richness of the finished product, I may end my days using it as an accompaniment to something else. Or as an entrée.

[judiu]

My late husband would not accept a main dish without animal protein, so I have put cubed ham or flaked tuna fish or scrumpled up, browned breakfast sausage or chopped up hot dogs or kielbasi in my mac and cheese, all depending on the state of the $ and/or leftovers. Also love the stewed tomatoes as a side with it. I, on the other hand love it any way it's served!

[Kajikit]

If you make it from scratch, put ham or bacon into it and bake it with extra cheese on top, then it's a main dish (especially if you have salad to have with it.) If it's plain or out of a box, it's a side...

[SylviaLovegren]

My late husband would not accept a main dish without animal protein, so I have put cubed ham or flaked tuna fish or scrumpled up, browned breakfast sausage or chopped up hot dogs or kielbasi in my mac and cheese, all depending on the state of the $ and/or leftovers. Also love the stewed tomatoes as a side with it. I, on the other hand love it any way it's served!

Stewed tomatoes. So good. Haven't had them in years.

[andiesenji]

Today's Gear Patrol Dispatch included this "World's Best" Mac & Cheese.

Plus a $10.00 "service fee shipping to California."

Now I am a big fan of Mac & Cheese but there is NO WAY I would spend this much on any version.

One would think they had applied gold leaf, or something.

Doesn't anyone have a comment about the price of this offering?

Is it just me that thinks this is ridiculous to the nth degree?

Perhaps I selected the wrong topic to bump up.

[toolprincess]

Seems inordinately expensive for something you can make so cheaply at home.