More fun facts about mac and cheese

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Elsa and Jelly Queen are really enjoying this tour. Now they enter the pasta room. 

Barney’s mouth drops wide open as he points to a talking elbow pasta. The guide tells him that some of these pastas are animated and they were hired to keep an eye on the machines. The pasta gives Barney a thumbs up. The guides moves them on as he offers them more fun facts.

“HJmmmm, wonder if the Friends studio had a hand in animating these pastas,” Jelly Queen thinks to herself. “After all, they made me into a 3D animation so why not do animated talking pasta too!”

The guide continues offering some facts.

‘Modern Mac and Cheese Was Born From a Wagon - In 1903, a guy named James L. Kraft made money selling cheese out of a wagon on the streets of Chicago. He did so well that he was able to form a company called Kraft Foods. In 1914, a game-changing event occurred when the company started making its own cheese — but the best was yet to come. It would soon introduce the first packaged product ever to come with powdered cheese.

It Has its Own Crayon Color - Crayon king Crayola apparently has an affinity for the dish just like everybody else. In 1993, the company introduced a color called, you guessed it, Macaroni and Cheese. It falls into the orange hue family, not yellow. 

Traditional mac and cheese contains dairy, but that doesn’t mean vegans have to abstain. They just have to adjust — and adjust they have. While a Google search returns about 52.8 million results when searching for a traditional mac and cheese recipe, a search for “vegan mac and cheese” returns 74.9 million results. Many use cashews and/or potatoes as the base for surprisingly authentic cheese-like sauces.’ (Source)

‘Mac and Cheese With Ketchup - This was the way to eat Mac and Cheese in the 90s up in Canada. Since then the trend has not died down, and to this day those Canucks love to drizzle their macaroni and cheese with ketchup. Why ketchup? Well, it seems to go with everything. Not only Canadians, but Americans also like to put ketchup on everything – from eggs to fries. To Canadians it’s the same concept as putting ketchup on your grilled cheese, and maybe that’s where the idea came from.

“I remember when I was a child my sister always put ketchup on her mac and cheese,” Elsa says. “I can’t imagine someone loving ketchup that much!”

The Most Popular Shape For Mac And Cheese - There are many different shapes of pasta that have been used to make and enjoy Mac and Cheese or really any type of cheesy pasta. By far the most popular shape is elbow pasta, which is the less fancy name for macaroni. This pasta is used for most dishes and is found in many of the boxed Mac and Cheese brands you can find on the shelf at the grocery store. But why elbow pasta? Well, it has that unique curved shape that holds the sauce very well. The more cheese it can hold, the better! Elbow pasta is a hardy pasta, making it perfect for Mac and Cheese, allowing you to cook the pasta to the perfect texture for it to then become coated with all that cheese! Did you know there’s a runner up to elbow pasta? The second most popular shape for Mac and Cheese is one you probably wouldn’t guess. It’s Sponge Bob Square Pants shaped pasta! We can thank Kraft for this one, they came out with this pasta shape in their boxed macaroni and cheese and it is a favorite! With Sponge Bob shapes for pasta who wouldn’t be excited. After all it’s a lot more fun to eat and just as tasty.’ (Source) 

Let’s continue - Super Simple Twists on Boxed Mac and Cheese

Start at the beginning – Elsa and Jelly Queen take a factory tour