Today, Amanda and I decided to fry up some chicken nuggets. We had chicken in the freezer and honestly, frying is one of the few cooking-type things I can pull off with out a huge mess and seriously fucking up some stuff (and by stuff I mean the food itself, the stove, the pots/pans it was cooked in, and if it gets that far, the people who eat it).
I had an ulterior motive for this since there was a package of about a dozen shrimp in the freezer as well. I figured if I offered to fry some chicken, I could fry the shrimp up for me. You know, since kids can't eat shrimp since they are on the "Yucky" list. Which, by the way, is fine with me since I don't like to share my shrimp. I digress...
Anyway, I fried the shrimp and the chicken and then decided that maybe I should make something to go with them. I think that is how you end up with a "meal"... by adding a couple of side dishes... or so I've been told :P
So, I check my cabinets and see that I have some sour cream and chive mashed potatoes (and yes, I make mashed potatoes from the box. Why? Two reasons: 1. It's easier. 2. If I buy real potatoes, I will never use them before they start growing stuff.. lots of stuff and I think after the amount of stuff that has grown on the potato is bigger than the potato itself, you have to throw it out. At least, that is my rule...) and a few boxes of macaroni and cheese. We always have macaroni and cheese. Always.
So, I throw all the ingredients for the mashed potatoes into a bowl and stick them into my best friend: the microwave and throw some water on the stove for the mac and cheese. Then, I start to clean up the kitchen. I am all proud of myself seeing as how I had almost finished cooking an entire meal and my kitchen was practically clean. I was adding up my Mommy Points while checking to make sure that the macaroni noodles were fully cooked. When they had passed that 'chewy' stage and entered the 'edible' stage, I drained the water and had Amanda grab the milk and butter from the fridge. While she did that, I opened the little packet of dried cheese and poured it onto the noodles. And something was wrong. Very wrong. The powdered cheese was the wrong color. Let me say that again, the powdered cheese was the wrong color. Who am I that I know this? I know what color powdered cheese is supposed to be. I KNOW WHAT COLOR POWDERED CHEESE IS SUPPOSED TO BE. Yeah. And it was so the wrong color.
So, I went over to the trash can and grabbed the box that Kraft's finest had come in to check for an expiration date. AN expiration date. On macaroni and cheese. It was the only thing I could think of to do under these circumstances. I mean, it had never happened before. The powdered cheese is always that too orange color. But not this time... this time it was some weird brownish tinted color. I was scared. And apparently, rightfully so: February 12, 2005. What the fuck? You mean, mac and cheese actually goes bad? Since when? Since when have you not been able to keep mac and cheese in the cabinet FOREVER and have it still be fine??? The cheese is powder. How does powder go bad? How?
As I am standing there looking at the expiration date on the blue box and the brownish tinted powdered cheese on my noodles, my faith in prepackaged food wavered. It has never wavered. Anything that I can cook in the microwave or oven or if I absolutely have to, on the stove that came from the cabinet or freezer is MY FRIEND. How can mac and cheese not be my friend any more? Isn't there a law that states boxed food has to be good for the lifetime of the person who purchased it? Isn't there?
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