Suburban Redneck

On Thursday, I was at our office in Santa Monica, where I convinced my guys there to let me take them to lunch. We went to the Daily Grill, which happened to be right downstairs. And, lo and behold, they were featuring “Loaded macaroni and cheese” as an entree on the menu. Without quibbling about the fact that it was shell-shaped pasta, and not macaroni, it seemed like a good idea. Three cheeses, sauteed mushrooms, and bacon, all topped with crispy panko breadcrumbs. However, it wasn’t, well, very cheesy at all.

But I took a picture of it anyway, and posted it to my Flickr account. Little did I know what I was getting myself into.

It turns out that there’s a whole community of mac & cheese lovers on Flickr. Ok, not one, but several. That picture has now received invitations to a couple of photo pools dedicated to mac & cheese. I have to admit, it seems quite odd to me. My personal fascination with macaroni & cheese has to do with the taste, and not with the appearance.

Still, to each his own, I suppose.