Returning items to IKEA and eating Mac and Cheese has been something of a theme around here as of late.
Needing a quick snack after an afternoon of hauling around some improbably named items, I felt a stop at the IKEA cafe for some of their Macaroni and Cheese would be just the thing to fill me up.
IKEA Macaroni and Cheese
Hmm.
If you think that IKEA is mostly bland and full of cardboard, have I got the Macaroni and Cheese for you!
Actually, it wasn’t that bad, though the noodles were over-cooked to the point where it seemed only the most tenuous of molecular bonds were holding them together. It had a homogeneous and slightly gritty texture with a strong hint of “cheddar”–not cheddar, but “cheddar” (quotation marks necessary)–that I couldn’t quite place.
It wasn’t until I was almost finished eating the IKEA Macaroni and Cheese that I realized what it reminded me of: a hot, fully-chewed mouthful of Cheez-It brand crackers. Except that I hadn’t chewed the Macaroni and Cheese yet.
Not exactly a ringing endorsement, but it went down okay.
This is about the lowest grade of Macaroni and Cheese that I would willingly eat again. It’ll do in a pinch, but I wouldn’t make a pilgrimage for it.
