I’m gonna level with y’all. I have a certain number of areas where my palate is reasonably sophisticated and bougie (a nice dry cider… perfection), but in many ways I have the palate of a latchkey kid in 1993. I love a dozen kinds of fast food, sugary breakfast cereals, and yeah, I prefer other recipes over it, but I’m write films of regular Kraft Mac and Cheese/Kraft Dinner.

All of which is to tell you that I’m not sneering down from some Michelin-starred ivory tower when I say that Microwave bowls of Mac & Cheese are FUCKING DISGUSTING. Whatever combination of powdered milk and thickeners and Satan-snot they have to put into the bowls to make the process work at all is just nasty. It’s an abomination before the Lord.