GC poll

[skylark]

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."

[RaggedyAnn]

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

[Benzgirl]

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

[epchick]

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

[barbino]

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.

[MysticCat]

From Scratch with real cheese --- Side
Blue Box --- Not worth serving or eating

[nittanyalum]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Blue Box --- Not worth serving or eating

But... but... it's the cheesiest!

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Blue Box --- Not worth serving or eating

Exactly.

[catiebug]

But sometimes it just hits the spot!

When I lived in Chile for three years, the only place I could get Kraft Mac&Cheese was from the American Embassy's commissary (yes, we could shop there). As much as I was craving it, I couldn't see spending $5 a box on it. When my mom came to visit, she brought me some in her suitcase.

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Blue Box --- Not worth serving or eating

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by catiebug

But sometimes it just hits the spot!

No, it doesn't. Not ever!

[SWTXBelle]

I'm still recovering from my years as an Air Force brat - the blue box mac and cheese with Spam is PX friendly kinda meal. Blech!

[DoctorD]

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.

[SWTXBelle]

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

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

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

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

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

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.

[SWTXBelle]

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.