# I wasted the best $2 of my life tonight! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 10, 2004, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wasted-the-best-2-of-my-life-tonight/249600 "2004-06-10T04:22:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kaotic\_Newtral](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@Kaotic\_Newtral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaotic_Newtral)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wasted-the-best-2-of-my-life-tonight/249600/1 "2004-06-10T04:22:50Z")
Well, I haven’t had Macaroni and Cheese for a while. I found a box of my favorite in the cupboard and boiled the water. When the water was good-n-ready, I put the shells in and came back to continue playing CivIII. Well, 12 or so minutes later, I found that everything was ready for my late night snack! I cut the foil of the Velveeta cheese pack and mixed it in. Lo! I had another Velveeta Mac and cheese pack in the back!!! Well being a lover of all things cheesy and not one to argue with myself I tossed all of the uncooked shells from the new box and added the Velveeta packet to my pot 'o shells that were on the stove. With a few drops of hot sauce, a bit 'o salt and pepper…I’m eating the best Macaroni and Cheese ever made! Double-cheese Mac-n-cheese! I’m in heaven! Wanna bite? 🙂 -K ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wasted-the-best-2-of-my-life-tonight/249600/2 "2004-06-10T04:46:34Z")
i’ve never tried hot sauce with macaroni & cheese before, but i’ll try it next time. I like mine on toast with pepper. ---
**Author:** ![Rhubarb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/59ef9b/32.png) [@Rhubarb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhubarb)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wasted-the-best-2-of-my-life-tonight/249600/3 "2004-06-10T04:49:57Z")
And if you add some chopped black olives and spaghetti sauce, it tastes like macaroni and cheese pizza. Yummy! ---
**Author:** ![sj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@sj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sj2)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wasted-the-best-2-of-my-life-tonight/249600/4 "2004-06-10T05:00:15Z")
I’ll have a bite if you throw some Kraft Singles in there. Talk about creamy, artificial cheese goodness. Yums for the Tums ---
**Author:** ![Fox\_Paws](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/85e7bf/32.png) [@Fox\_Paws](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fox_Paws)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wasted-the-best-2-of-my-life-tonight/249600/5 "2004-06-10T15:02:28Z")
Don’t forget to add ketchup. You can’t have mac ‘n’ cheese without ketchup. Lots and lots of ketchup. Mmm mmm good! ---
**Author:** ![P\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a587f6/32.png) [@P\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P_T)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wasted-the-best-2-of-my-life-tonight/249600/6 "2004-06-10T15:05:32Z")
You Dr. up Mac n cheese? Whoduthunkit? Guess I’ve lived a pretty sheltered life, I always just eat mine according to the directions… ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wasted-the-best-2-of-my-life-tonight/249600/7 "2004-06-10T15:06:45Z")
My mac and cheese recipe from my college days: 1 Box of Kraft Mac and Cheese + all of the stuff you need to make it 1 Small block of cheddar cheese 1/2 package of Oscar Meyer bacon\* Cook bacon, crumble it into small pieces and set aside. Grate entire block of cheese. Make Kraft Mac and Cheese according to directions except use only a small splash of milk. Put back on burner and turn on flame to medium heat. Mix in cheese and bacon and stir until cheese is melted. Serve. Enjoy. \*Medium sized can of tuna or chicken can be subsituted for the bacon. ---
**Author:** ![Kaotic\_Newtral](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@Kaotic\_Newtral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaotic_Newtral)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wasted-the-best-2-of-my-life-tonight/249600/8 "2004-06-10T15:19:49Z")
> [@P\_T\_](#): > > You Dr. up Mac n cheese? Whoduthunkit? Guess I’ve lived a pretty sheltered life, I always just eat mine according to the directions… You have to doctor it up! It’s fun. Actually I really like to make chili-mac by adding a can of Hormel chili to it…it’s quite tasty. ---
**Author:** ![Nightsong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nightsong/32/3083_2.png) [@Nightsong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightsong)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wasted-the-best-2-of-my-life-tonight/249600/9 "2004-06-10T21:29:04Z")
Mmmmmm. Mac-n-cheese with spicy Italian sausage! 😃 I generally nuke my macaroni, and just toss in the frozen sausage in with it. The sausage gets cooked at the same time the noodles are done, the noodles absorb some of the flavor/spice from the sausage, and the grease from the sausage gets drained away with the water. Cheese (Velveeta if I’m making it from scratch, whatever came with the box elsewise) gets put onto the hot noodley goodness, and there we go. It’s a perfect combination. The mellowness of the cheese, the spicy tang of the sausage… Damn. I’m at work for another half hour, and no way to make some here. ☹ * * * \<\< The truth is out there. It’s just not indexed very well. \>\> ---
**Author:** ![El\_Cheapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8e7dd6/32.png) [@El\_Cheapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cheapo)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wasted-the-best-2-of-my-life-tonight/249600/10 "2004-06-10T21:35:47Z")
> [@buddafuco](#): > > Don’t forget to add ketchup. You can’t have mac ‘n’ cheese without ketchup. Lots and lots of ketchup. > > Mmm mmm good! Ho bee oten boten bay, ho bee oten bay, HEY! Ho bee oten boten bay, fattening up our tapeworms! ---
**Author:** ![Kaotic\_Newtral](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@Kaotic\_Newtral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaotic_Newtral)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wasted-the-best-2-of-my-life-tonight/249600/11 "2004-06-10T23:12:55Z")
> [@El Cheapo](#): > > Ho bee oten boten bay, ho bee oten bay, HEY! Ho bee oten boten bay, fattening up our tapeworms! Translation please? 🙂 **Nightsong** : ``` I'm going to have to try the spicy sausage tip, that sounds pretty damn good! ``` Also, now that I think about what **P\_T\_** said, I don’t think there’s a single off the shelf food that I don’t _doctor up_ in some way. Everything from Campbells soup to TV Dinners get changed in some fashion before it’s eaten. Heck, I even change delivery pizza! -K ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wasted-the-best-2-of-my-life-tonight/249600/12 "2004-06-10T23:24:05Z")
Double Velveeta - single mac… [Homer]Ahhhhhhhhhhh[/h] I usually have the regular Kraft® with added american, cheddar and parmesan cheeses. Plus dehydrated onions and LOTS of paprika. Pure cheesey goodness! ---
**Author:** ![pyrrthon1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@pyrrthon1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pyrrthon1)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wasted-the-best-2-of-my-life-tonight/249600/13 "2004-06-10T23:25:49Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > 1 Box of Kraft Mac and Cheese + all of the stuff you need to make it > 1 Small block of cheddar cheese > 1/2 package of Oscar Meyer bacon\* > > \*. You guys are going to die young. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wasted-the-best-2-of-my-life-tonight/249600/14 "2004-06-10T23:28:40Z")
Yeah, but we’ll die happy! 😃 I generally add hot sauce, chopped franks, bacon bits, more cheese, and diced Ortega chilis. ---
**Author:** ![Kaotic\_Newtral](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@Kaotic\_Newtral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaotic_Newtral)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wasted-the-best-2-of-my-life-tonight/249600/15 "2004-06-10T23:32:34Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Yeah, but we’ll die happy! 😃 > > I generally add hot sauce, chopped franks, bacon bits, more cheese, and diced Ortega chilis. Man! That sounds good too! Now that I think about it, I like everything with a bit of pepperocini peppers. I haven’t tried them in Double-Cheesy Mac-n-Cheese, but I’m going to now. -K ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wasted-the-best-2-of-my-life-tonight/249600/16 "2004-06-10T23:44:13Z")
> [@pyrrthon1](#): > > You guys are going to die young. Not to worry. I haven’t made that since the Reagan Administration. I have evolved, with some pushing from my wife, into a healthy eater. Haj ---
**Author:** ![Berkut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@Berkut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berkut)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wasted-the-best-2-of-my-life-tonight/249600/17 "2004-06-10T23:56:10Z")
> [@pyrrthon1](#): > > You guys are going to die young. I’m already too old to die young. ---
**Author:** ![Lady\_Kate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/aca169/32.png) [@Lady\_Kate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_Kate)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wasted-the-best-2-of-my-life-tonight/249600/18 "2004-06-11T00:10:59Z")
**Lady Kate’s Sophisticated Mac and Cheese** Boil macaroni noodles to desired state (I like mine al dente) and drain Add desired amount of cubed Velveeta (the more the better) to the hot noodles Toss in some sliced mushrooms Add one can of tuna (drain the water) A bit of garlic and some salt and pepper and. . . Voila! Sometimes I’ll even toss in some peas if I’m feeling fancy (and there are some left over in the 'fridge). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kaotic\_Newtral](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@Kaotic\_Newtral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaotic_Newtral)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wasted-the-best-2-of-my-life-tonight/249600/19 "2004-06-11T00:14:31Z")
> [@Lady Kate](#): > > **Lady Kate’s Sophisticated Mac and Cheese** > > Boil macaroni noodles to desired state (I like mine al dente) and drain > Add desired amount of cubed Velveeta (the more the better) to the hot noodles > Toss in some sliced mushrooms > Add one can of tuna (drain the water) > A bit of garlic and some salt and pepper and. . . > Voila! > > Sometimes I’ll even toss in some peas if I’m feeling fancy (and there are some left over in the 'fridge). 😃 Good touch with the mushrooms! Now I’m thinking Pepperoncini peppers, spicy sausage and mushrooms mac-n-cheese! -K ---
**Author:** ![Dignan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@Dignan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dignan)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wasted-the-best-2-of-my-life-tonight/249600/20 "2004-06-11T00:30:31Z")
> [@P\_T\_](#): > > You Dr. up Mac n cheese? Whoduthunkit? Guess I’ve lived a pretty sheltered life, I always just eat mine according to the directions… No kidding. How come there isn’t some sort of recipe book out about spicing up macaroni & cheese for us non-creative folks? Should we be left out of the fun just because we lack the innovation to see two seemingly unrelated processed foods and wonder, “Maybe I should put them together?” Someone needs to get to work on this, ASAP. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wasted-the-best-2-of-my-life-tonight/249600.md?page=2)