Rhody Eat Beat: Confessions of a foodie
Rebecca Long
Issue date: 4/23/08 Section: Editorial/Opinion
04/23/08 - As this is my last column, I feel it is the appropriate time to make a few confessions. As a foodie, people have high expectations of my taste in food. Despite this, there are some things which, despite an intellectual understanding of their inferiority, I cannot help but love.
My first big vice is macaroni and cheese, and not the homemade kind. In fact, I don't particularly like homemade macaroni and cheese. My preferred brand is Stop & Shop, specifically the spirals. Always looking to improve a recipe, I throw in a slice of American cheese when I'm mixing the powdered cheese into a quarter cup each of milk and butter.
Not only do I love boxed macaroni and cheese, but I am also frugal. I discovered that you can make fake Hamburger Helper - not that you probably want to - using boxed macaroni and cheese, which is much cheaper than Hamburger Helper, but appears to have similar ingredients (low quality pasta and orange cheese powder.)
To make things worse, I don't eat beef, so my fake Hamburger Helper is actually fake ground turkey helper. Although I'm sure you're not all running out to the store to try this recipe, keep in mind before you judge me that I'm a poor college student, and sometimes I'm just too lazy to cook real food.
My next confession would have to be that I eat at Wendy's. Although I don't often find myself dining at Burger King or McDonald's - in fact I can't remember the last time I was at a McDonald's - I will confess to stopping at Wendy's on occasion, and by on occasion I mean a couple times a month.
Say what you will, but when I'm out all day running errands and I'm starving, a chicken sandwich for $1 seems like a pretty good deal. And on the subject of the Wendy's vs. KFC chicken wrap debate, KFC's is better. Trust me.
My next confession is a confession not because I think it denotes a lack of taste, but because it sounds un-American. Here it is: I hate Hershey's chocolate. I think Hershey's milk chocolate bars taste weird. The ridiculous part is that even I, as a despiser of the chocolate, could not resist stopping in the store when I was in Hershey, Pa.
My first big vice is macaroni and cheese, and not the homemade kind. In fact, I don't particularly like homemade macaroni and cheese. My preferred brand is Stop & Shop, specifically the spirals. Always looking to improve a recipe, I throw in a slice of American cheese when I'm mixing the powdered cheese into a quarter cup each of milk and butter.
Not only do I love boxed macaroni and cheese, but I am also frugal. I discovered that you can make fake Hamburger Helper - not that you probably want to - using boxed macaroni and cheese, which is much cheaper than Hamburger Helper, but appears to have similar ingredients (low quality pasta and orange cheese powder.)
To make things worse, I don't eat beef, so my fake Hamburger Helper is actually fake ground turkey helper. Although I'm sure you're not all running out to the store to try this recipe, keep in mind before you judge me that I'm a poor college student, and sometimes I'm just too lazy to cook real food.
My next confession would have to be that I eat at Wendy's. Although I don't often find myself dining at Burger King or McDonald's - in fact I can't remember the last time I was at a McDonald's - I will confess to stopping at Wendy's on occasion, and by on occasion I mean a couple times a month.
Say what you will, but when I'm out all day running errands and I'm starving, a chicken sandwich for $1 seems like a pretty good deal. And on the subject of the Wendy's vs. KFC chicken wrap debate, KFC's is better. Trust me.
My next confession is a confession not because I think it denotes a lack of taste, but because it sounds un-American. Here it is: I hate Hershey's chocolate. I think Hershey's milk chocolate bars taste weird. The ridiculous part is that even I, as a despiser of the chocolate, could not resist stopping in the store when I was in Hershey, Pa.
