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Nanshe3 t1_j5s5ca7 wrote

It really doesn’t take that much longer to make homemade mac and cheese and it tastes so much better. I would use Gruyère cheese for the Mac and cheese with those tasty looking ribs.

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chairfairy t1_j5t8tiv wrote

I'll say homemade mac'n'cheese is a completely different dish from box mac'n'cheese.

You don't make a sandwich if you want a burrito and you don't order a burger if you want a hot dog. You don't do homemade if you want boxed and vice versa. It hardly makes sense to compare them.

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Nanshe3 t1_j5tbkpv wrote

They’re both mac and cheese. Not different types of food like the examples you gave. That’s like saying a rotisserie chicken you buy in a store and a chicken you roast at home are different kinds of meat.

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chairfairy t1_j5tccln wrote

In the literal sense, yes they are both mac'n'cheese. But they are very different dishes and it's a very different experience to eat one vs the other. I would be annoyed if I wanted the boxed version and someone gave me the homemade version, because they're not the same thing.

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Nanshe3 t1_j5tepjq wrote

The different experience is in the quality of the ingredients and taste. If someone asked me if I wanted boxed or homemade to go with those tasty looking ribs I would choose homemade every time because together they make a tastier meal. If you’re not going to bake the mac and cheese then it’s maybe a few minutes more to grate the cheese. You have to boil pasta for both. But perhaps all that was available was the boxed version anyway.

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