Thoughts On: Chick-Fil-A’s Mac and Cheese

I’m not mad, I’m just disappointed.

My biggest complaint about Chick-Fil-A, other than the fact that they are closed on Sundays and hate gay people due to their religious mindset, is that their menu hasn’t changed at all sense the introduction of the spicy chicken sandwich back in 2010. All they’ve added are different kinds of salads which is the equivalent of adding nothing because no one is going to order that shit. I find enjoyment out of crazy menu additions and limited time only options, even if it’s done poorly like in Burger King’s case, because it makes going to eat fast food an exciting event for the palette. So the announcement that Chick-Fil-A was not only adding a new menu item, but was adding fucking MACARONI AND CHEESE, rocked my whole world unlike anything else. “Finally”, I thought, “Chick-Fil-A’s God has finally answered a prayer by adding a new legitimate menu item!”

If we’re all being honest, Chick-Fil-A definitely offers the highest quality product of all the fast food chains and I walked into my local store having the same expectations for its cheesy new concoction. From my first bite to the last my biggest observation was that I enjoyed it less and less as I kept eating it. The first bite was like “Alright. Okay.” and the last bite was like “ehhhhhggh.” The most glaring issue was the cheese sauce. I was under the impression that the mac and cheese was going to be more akin to delicious baked mac and cheese, and while it does have a layer of baked cheddar (by far the best part), the bulk of the product is that wet liquid cheese stuff. And it wasn’t like the way the powdered processed cheese is in Kraft blue boxes, which is kind of good, it was as if you were to melt american cheese into a liquid and then used milk to dilute the flavor and thin the consistency. I couldn’t tell you why, but something about the flavor took me back to my elementary school cafeteria. This mac and cheese tastes like school food.

The noodles were also boiled to hell, having no resemblance of the bite pasta should have. This, combined with the liquid cheese, created a product that was mushy and wet.

It wasn’t horrible per se, but was far from being good enough to where I’d be craving to integrate it into my normal Chick-Fil-A order. Now that I think about it though, I guess it’s still better to have mac and cheese that isn’t very good than not have mac and cheese at all. It’s there as an option. I just wish it was a fundamentally better option the shook up the restaurant’s meta more. I guess I had too much faith.