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I need to settle an argument with a friend and I need all of your help to do it. Is mac and cheese a side or main dish? You can't say "it depends" so just pick one.

pick one or your vote won't count :p

you will pick one. dont be a pansy.

Well, define your terms. Are you opening a blue box or starting with raw ingredients??

Either or. In this case, a box.

Screw it, I'm going with SIDE.

If you put just mac and cheese on the table, people will be hungry again in an hour. You need a protein. The fake cheese isn't filling enough.

ETA: just saw your answer, if it's coming out of the blue box, it's definitely a side, IMO. 'k, am I done now? ;) :)

Hey, I don't see you jumping in here, Miss Opinion!

So which is it, side or main?

we're still polling

im not allowed to vote - sigh. but ill wait till ppl start answering.

neither am I so it's even

Oh! LOL, is it the 2 of you that are having the original argument?

If only cheese and pasta: side

If you add tomatoes, bacon & basil: incredibly satisfying dinner

P.S. The correct answer to any question is always "it depends."

Never had it as a side dish-or with anything else for that matter. Main!

Blue Box --- Side
From Scratch with real cheese --- Main

nights when I don't feel like cooking, or my daughter volunteers to cook? main dish.
Nights when I've actually cooked and it sort of goes, and the kids will eat it? side.

For children under 5 - main dish
For everyone else - side.

And hey, Mom - adding diced Spam does NOT make it a main dish. Shudder.

Side.

side dish

Always a side. I've never had (or desire to have) macaroni and cheese as my main dish.

Side dish always.

Even if it's the only thing I make for dinner, I acknowledge it isn't actually the main dish.

Side if small portion and served alone.

Main dish if served with veggies or meat in it, or in a large portion.

When it's from a box with fake cheese, it doesn't qualify as food so it is neither side nor main.

If it is actual mac and cheese, real cheese and real ingredients, then it is a main dish. Of course, I am a pescetarian so my vote probably needs an asterisk. ;)

It's a side.

co-sign. My thoughts exactly.

I would have said college age and under, main dish;
out of college, side.

I can remember eating the kind of flavored rice that you make from a packet as a meal when I was in college (you know, like broccoli and cheese rice), and yet clearly today, it would only be suitable as a side, if that.

And, I like Spam. I wouldn't serve it to other people if they came to my house, but when my husband makes spam, egg, and cheese sandwiches on a Saturday for a couch potato brunch, it's pretty perfect.

And I've always thought it was funny that in the south (for example, at Luby's or the like) they will list "vegetables" - and then list macaroni and cheese. NO - it is not a vegetable. :confused:

The answer is........yes.

WHAT???? You can't add browned hamburger and call it a main dish???? But...it says you can....right on the box!!!
(I like Spam too, sliced and dipped in egg, the covered with flour/cornmeal and fried...yummy comfort food :D !)

Main dish (even if it is from a blue box). Shiiiiiiiit add some tuna and you got yourself some bomb-ass casserole!! lol.

Side

Box or not.....SIDE

I know for some of my students the stuff from the box is their meal. So I vote MAIN.

Side! As well as one of my favorite comfort foods :)

Side dish if it's from any box.

Great main dish with spiral pasta, Velveeta cheese, lots of ham, onions, and seasonings (sometimes I add peas). Now I want to make it again.

I think that you have to grow up with Spam to develop a taste for it.

Mac and Cheese is a side dish regardless of whether is comes from a box or his homemade.

I don't consider macaroni noodles with cheese, vegetables, and meat "Mac and Cheese".

Side

Ok, cuteASAbug and tld, how many votes need to come in before we know your question is answered? And who won? ;)

tld221 won

Depends on portion size and calories. :)

For example, Smart Ones' Mac n Cheese is more than a fistful of pasta is about 300 calories so that is a meal to me. I'd have a salad as the side.

I don't consider entrees with macaroni noodles to be "mac n cheese." If you put veggies, cheeses, and other cool stuff in it then that's a delicious pasta meal in the making.

no, i effin PWNED. thanks for playing everyone!

LOL, I kinda figured that might have been what your big red PWNED post was about.

Sorry, 'bug. :o