Although it is rooted in Italian origins, mac and cheese has become a staple of American food culture. According to Smithsonian, macaroni and cheese was introduced to the United States by Thomas Jefferson who had fallen in love with the cheesy pasta dish during a trip to France. While there, Jefferson collected a few pasta recipes and purchased a pasta maker— and after that, the rest is history. According to Smithsonian, Kraft came out with its boxed version of macaroni and cheese in 1937, during the Great Depression.
And since then, cooks everywhere have been putting their own unique twists on the iconic meal. Like this gluten and dairy-free baked artisan mac and cheese, for example.
Or these sweet potato mac and cheese cups.
Now, these new-age macaroni and cheese concoctions usually look pretty delicious. But one Twitter user recently went viral after sharing a photo of a mac-and-cheese disaster that was brought to her company potluck by a co-worker.
Jan Levinson, who goes by @coolstoryjanis on Twitter, recently took to social media to share a photo of the abomination her co-worker had mysteriously labeled as macaroni and cheese.
“Look at the macaroni & cheese my coworker brought to our potluck today,” she writes. “Bruh.”
And as Mauricio Castillo from Little Things notes, “‘Bruh’, indeed.”
“I’m so offended,” she continues. “She literally poured cooked macaroni into a pot & put shredded cheese on top with not an ounce of seasoning.”
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Levinson’s tweets quickly went viral, with users expressing dismay that their beloved mac and cheese had been violated in such an offensive way.
Twitter user @imagin8ion posts: “I don’t even know what the next move is sis, I’ve never faced such adversity”, with an attached GIF reading,”Do we call 911?”
Another user, @DBruton10, complains that the horrendous-looking mac and cheese has now been burned into his mind’s eye.
“I can’t unsee wat I saw,” he writes, adding the acronym for “shake my f*cking head” to emphasize his disappointment and disgust.
Some people went so far as to call the abomination a form of “workplace harassment”, with others calling upon Jesus to save them.
Another put the shame on herself, noting, “The sad thing is, I would still eat it.”
Since going viral, Levinson’s Twitter account has since been made private. I’m going to assume that her co-worker may have heard the things the internet had to say about her potluck dish.
What are your thoughts? Can this really be considered a legitimate form of macaroni and cheese? Or is it, in fact, an abomination to what has become a beloved and sacred American meal?
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