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May. 24th, 2011 03:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cblj_backupSo, Chicago used to have a law against food trucks, I have no idea why. Recently, the law has been relaxed to allow food trucks as long as they don't cook the food in the truck or park it within 100 feet of a restaurant. Which basically means we still have no food trucks, because you can't throw a rock in this town without hitting somewhere to eat.
We do have a few, though. There's a cupcake truck. There's a soup and salad truck called The Lunch Machine. And there's the Southern Mac And Cheese Truck.
I have been dying to try this food truck, but it always shows up early and leaves right before I get my lunch break, so I haven't been able to. TODAY, I GOT ME SOME MACARONI AND CHEESE.
...and it's not really very good.
You guys have no idea how sad I am that the Macaroni and Cheese truck makes mac and cheese that is less delicious than the stuff I make myself at home. The pasta is fine -- I mean, it's macaroni, that's hard to mess up -- and for $9 you get a ton of mac and cheese, but they don't seem to have conceptualised "cheese sauce" properly. Maybe it's what I ordered, I don't know. I got the blue-cheese-and-bacon mac and cheese, but I was expecting some kind of white sauce base, like the add-milk-and-cheese-to-a-roux sauce I make when I make it myself. Instead it was literally macaroni stirred up with crumbled blue cheese. I like blue cheese, but it's not a mild flavour, and that's an awful lot to take in at once.
Seriously, my sadness at the mediocrity of the mac and cheese truck is epic. The problem with having a vivid imagination is that reality so rarely lives up to it.
We do have a few, though. There's a cupcake truck. There's a soup and salad truck called The Lunch Machine. And there's the Southern Mac And Cheese Truck.
I have been dying to try this food truck, but it always shows up early and leaves right before I get my lunch break, so I haven't been able to. TODAY, I GOT ME SOME MACARONI AND CHEESE.
...and it's not really very good.
You guys have no idea how sad I am that the Macaroni and Cheese truck makes mac and cheese that is less delicious than the stuff I make myself at home. The pasta is fine -- I mean, it's macaroni, that's hard to mess up -- and for $9 you get a ton of mac and cheese, but they don't seem to have conceptualised "cheese sauce" properly. Maybe it's what I ordered, I don't know. I got the blue-cheese-and-bacon mac and cheese, but I was expecting some kind of white sauce base, like the add-milk-and-cheese-to-a-roux sauce I make when I make it myself. Instead it was literally macaroni stirred up with crumbled blue cheese. I like blue cheese, but it's not a mild flavour, and that's an awful lot to take in at once.
Seriously, my sadness at the mediocrity of the mac and cheese truck is epic. The problem with having a vivid imagination is that reality so rarely lives up to it.
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Date: 2011-05-24 09:34 pm (UTC)That's a fairly fundamental failure to comprehend macaroni cheese there...