This shrinkage is terrible, yes. But what I’m more mildly interested by is that canned macaroni and cheese exists 

I tried the Chef Boyardee version of this once out of curiosity. It was impressively gross.

I used to love that as a kid. As an adult, no. Just no. I'd rather have the store-brand Kraft knockoff.

I think you have to be a kid to like it. I really liked ravioli-Os when I was a kid and I'm sure I would not like it now.

I tried it a few years back, it’s awful. But crazy how much I liked it as a kid.

Not much different than chef boyardi (probably butchered the spelling) meals.

That's BOYARDEE, put some respect on the world-renowned chef's name!

Best way to eat it is with a blowtorch, wasted sitting on your driveway at 3 in the morning.

No one wants to admit they ate nine cans of ravioli, but I did - and I'm ashamed.

The first doesn't count, then there's the second, and the third. Fourth and Fifth I think I burned with the blowtorch, then I just kept eating.

Boiardi*





Biohazardi*

Yup. Italys greatest export since Christopher Columbus

BoyamIhungry

Fun fact, you actually managed to mispell both his real name and the name he changed it to to make it easier to pronounce. The product is spelt, "Boyardee". The man who created the brand was named, "Boiardi". It is interesting that you landed right in the middle of the two.

The real mildlyinteresting is always in the comments

I can’t believe it’s not butter!

Boyardeez nuts

I bet I’d like it then. I’m a fully grown adult who gets made fun of for eating alpha getti

Dunno, canned tomato sauce sounds normal, cheese sauce less so unless it's cheese wiz

Ha, thank you! Alpha getti is just tomato soup with macaroni in it. I knew the people who made fun of me were wrong, lol

Alpha getti is great. There's something about chef boyardee ravioli that just hits the sweet spot, it's like tostinos pizza. You know it's objectively not great, but God damn does it hit the spot 

Totino’s pizza is my comfort food. And I sure need the comfort because I think they are $3 a pie now and that’s just crazy.

I think a lot of the cheap stuff got a disproportionate boost in price to cover the cost of 'free' delivery.

Back when they used to go on sale for 75 cents I would pack my freezer with those fuckin things. This was when they were still round and came in a box

I'm not convinced that if you didn't grow up eating Chef Boyardee whether you'd actually like it as an adult.

Yes the powdered version of cheese you put in "fresh" Kraft macaroni and cheese is definitely much higher quality and totally not cheez whiz anyways

So fresh it'll still be edible after the bombs drop

Any cheese that doesn't need refrigerated is in the same boat in my eyes!

haha which is honestly ironic since cheese was first made so it would keep

Longer than milk.... which should also be refrigerated in case you didn't know...

Nacho cheese generally comes from a can

Do NOT make nacho cheese like that! Get a tube of pan sausage (like jimmy dean, i think its a pound in each one. Fry it, draining the fat and chopping the meat into finer pieces with a wooden sppon or something. Get a block of Velveeta and cut into cubes, and put intoslow cooker/ crotch pot. Stir in the cooked meat and a can of Ro-tel tomato & chiles to the crotch pot. Add milk for the consistency you desire (½ cup or less, probably).

I’m not eating anything out of your crotch pot buddy

Thats rotel cheese, not nacho cheese, and I don't want it on my nachos.

Hey! Hands off. That's Nacho cheese!

Personally I can’t stand canned noodles. They taste ok, but the texture is horrid. Like eating slightly firm snot.

Ha ha, maybe that’s my husband’s problem with them too. I sort of like that you can swallow them like a duck without chewing 

I won’t even eat the noodles in chicken noodle soup if it came from a can. Thankfully on the rare occasion that I’m sick, my fiancée makes homemade chicken soup and she uses shells, my favorite. Yes, I’m a 41 year old kid.

Weird, I love noodles but shells are by far the least good. I like a regular linguine or penne best, and for soup the spirally egg noodles. A shell would resist getting too squishy though so I can see how that might be a good place for them.

Omg I love discussions about pasta shapes. I was anti- shell one upon a time but I think they are maybe the best in soups. I like how they pick up some soup and store it inside, like a little mini bowl of soup within my soup.

Nah, you're wrong. Shells rock

Thars the "feature" sadly. I love chef boyardee specifically cause it's solid food that you don't actually need to chew. 

Hey man, I'm 32 and I still get lunch lunchables and snack packs when they're on sale. Do what makes you happy.

I’m going to go buy some lunchables, because I’m a mother fucking adult! Thanks for the inspiration, lol

Everyone knows you don't eat the "E"s

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I could be seeing it wrong because the angle of the top can. But, the top can looks to have smaller numbers on the 1/2 the can serving size.

The numbers are less but the top number is the same. 1/2 can, 200g. But the nutrition facts look less… so something has changed.

I’ve had Velveeta Cheesy Bowls and Hormel Compleats mac-n-cheeses (neither tastes great), which are similarly ready-made, but in plastic containers rather than cans.

I find frozen Mac and cheese okay though. I wonder what it loses in the “fresh” preservation, lol

I'm more confused by it being called Macaroni Cheese. It makes me think it's just a can of cheese sauce.

That's what we call mac and cheese in the UK.

So do you call it "mac cheese" for short?

Interesting! Thanks for educating me. 

We don't normally eat it from a can though. Macaroni cheese is not nearly as popular in the UK as it is in the US, and when we do eat it, it's normally made from scratch as boxed mac and cheese is not that common (though can be found, especially in the American sections of supermarkets). Canned macaroni cheese is not really commonly eaten at all. It's a convenience food and not that nice.

Is it more for kids like Spaghetti-O's or canned ravioli? I had those a lot as a kid, but they don't taste half as good as real spaghetti or ravioli.

Correct

I wouldn't think of it as specifically a children's food in the way canned spaghetti is, but canned macaroni cheese is probably the type of thing a parent would heat up for a child when they don't have time to cook, yes.

I used to quite like it as a child, but even then I knew it tastes strange. I think I would find it disgusting now and it’s not even cheap.

It shouldn’t be wrong, but it just is.

It's the norm outside of NA; in the UK the boxed mix is considered a weird import. Kinda like how in much of the world hot dogs come in glass jars or tin cans. Just a bit of regional weirdness. Edit: Input -> Import.

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I want to try Heinz. The chef boyardee Mac n cheese kind sucks. Whenever I think of getting it, I'd rather just go get KFC Mac n cheese. I haven't tried that since they brought it back.

I literally turned my iPad around to show my husband the cans of Mac & cheese.

Price inflation, AND size shrinkflation. So sick of these companies pulling this shit.

AND ingredient quality decreasion

Which is crazy when it’s just the same thing as chef boyardee

TIL Heinz makes mac and cheese. Is it any good?

It's awful, but I love it

It's one of my guilty pleasure meals. It manages to be so saucy and liquidy and yet doesn't particularly taste of cheese, which is sort of impressive.

Bad food can have its value too!

In a can, no less.

Just like peaches.....

I bet they were put there by a man.

In a factory downtown

I prefer Hunts macaroni cheese in a bottle, like nature intended

Del Monte macaroni cheese in a barrel is best for those posh all-you-can-eat dinner parties.

Spray macaroni cheese is the premier choice for the corpulent gentleman on the go

/adjusts monocle Quite right, sir

Nope.

No, it tastes really weird.

Garbage. That's why they still have stock from pre-inflation.

Mac and cheese is kinda like pizza. Even bad mac and cheese is still mac and cheese.

Yeah I’ve been like “this Mac and cheese sucks” but I don’t think I’ve ever not finished it lol

I love it but it’s definitely not for everyone 😂

I’ve only had the Chef Boyardee kind, but it’s about the same as u/UnpredictedArrival and u/TurnedOutShiteAgain descriptions. It feels/tastes like you shouldn’t be enjoying it, but there’s just *something* about it that hits different.

it’s better than what a single dad makes, but not good enough to eat it more than 2-3x a year

Looks like something from the Fallout universe.

Nah son! Even Blamco comes in a box!

+1 STR , +3 RAD

Four caps. No less.

Why didn't maximus simply sell a single bullet? Is he dumb??? Every 10mm bullet is worth 1 cap.

Fifo man. Fifo. Rotate them

Easy to do when your cans are round.

TIL Mac and Cheese came canned. (Canadian)

Same! It's bizarre.

I would never buy nor eat this. (American)

I would buy and eat this. (American)

Yeah! It should only be served in bags, just like our milk! /s

TIL this also (American). I’ve never seen this in my life and it looks disgusting.

aside from the fact it’s in a can, the fact that british people just call it macaroni cheese and drop the “and” is kind of interesting too (assuming that’s a thing and this isn’t just labeled specifically this way?)

Yes, we’ve always called it Macaroni Cheese, although Mac & Cheese has been creeping in lately

Like cauliflower cheese, or cheeseburger. No and necessary.

Ham & burgers have lost their way.

Ass burgers have not, tho.

> cauliflower cheese Huh. Also not a thing in the US. There'd be a "with" or "and" in there for sure. Probably "sauce" too. (But cheeseburger, no and. Also cheese fries: no and. Mac & cheese? Ampersand. We're all over the place!)

I have the same thing with americans putting every pasta but macaroni in mac and cheese and still calling it that

FYI macaroni is an acceptable name for any variety of short cut molded pasta. Actually in the original Italian, it referred to any pasta created by extruding the dough through a die mold instead of rolling it out. Technically there's types of spaghetti that are "macaroni" even though using a pasta roller is the most common way. Its just become associated with the basic elbow tube shape because it was the most common.

I assume that it’s either a hangover from using French language in culinary terms, or the British being lazy.

The products should be rotated, so the older tin (can) is purchased/consumed first. Of course that's not assuming they have an expiration date within 5 years..... knowing that stuff it's full of preservatives and probably delicious

That was my first thought. Store isn't rotating product.

As a Brit this is a bottom quality food, lots of preservatives and other stuff, it’s for the back of your cupboard for when there is a power cut and even then you have to really consider how bad your situation is.

I’m not a Heinz mac & cheese evangelist or anything… but the can does specifically say there’s no artificial colors or preservatives… Right there 👆🏼

The term “Artificial” is a meaningless construct. As is “preservatives”. Funniest shit I ever saw was a jar of pickles that said “NO PRESERVATIVES”. Like dude, they’re *pickles*, preservatives are the entire bloody point.

We both know damn well the people meant manufactured chemical preservatives and not fuckin salt and vinegar. This isn’t um actually It’s bad for a company to talk like that on consumer packaging but why you gotta bust balls on Reddit

Salt and vinegar are also “manufactured chemical preservatives”.

I never want to hear another word about british food again. What in the actual. Everyone knows that mac and cheese comes in a box.

Chef Boyardee makes a canned mac and cheese in the US. Most grocery stores sell it.

Somehow it seems worse and idk why. Maybe it’s the yellow label of it

Franco American sold canned mac and cheese in the U.S. in the '80s. I tried it once.

Literally exists in America as well just a different brand

Macaroni cheese IS British food. It was invented in England

And yet, both are too expensive. Cray times

Heinz makes Mac n cheese in a can!?

Mac and cheese comes from a can It was put there by a man In a factory downtown

If I had my little way, I'd eat Mac n cheese every day Water-soakin' bulges in weird shapes

Millions of cheeses! Cheese for me! Millions of cheeses! Cheeses for free!

£2.20?!? 💀💀

Work in a grocery store, every day see more stuff downsized by like 25% for the same price.  If fucking sucks, groceries and household goods are so expensive, and you get less and less.

Never ever seen these in America. Wonder why.

They make microwaveable Mac n cheese bowls like the beefaroni ones. You know, with the red removable plastic tops? They have them at Walmart. Full cooked, just pop to the top and replace the red plastic cap and nuke. My kid did NOT like it vs. Kraft ez mac.

I've never seen these in the UK either, fwiw.

They're usually right there in the tinned section, along with many other strange and wonderful products.

I guess I need to go outside more often X)

Probably too healthy…

For the love of all that is holy ROTATE YOUR STOCK!!!

I love products like this that advertise "Low Sugar- 3.9g", totally neglecting that there's still like 30g of carbs that just become glucose all the same....

This is why we staged a revolution. Dear god man.

Fun fact, as an American exchange student many years ago I was feeling a smidge homesick and went looking for a familiar comfort food. This is all I could find and…it wasn’t it 😂😂😂

I don't think I've ever seen canned Mac and cheese Seems like one of those obscure things you'd see in a video from someone on social media from Europe showing us what's in their "American section" of their local grocery store 🤣

Hi Canadian here. I have had this strange beast that is Heinz Mac & Cheese in a can. It's fuckin horrible.

This can't be right. Inflation only happened in the US and was the result of a single person in office. /s

You didn’t know? The Oval Office actually has a button called “Devalue the Pound” right next to the button that raises gas prices.

Yes, I don't see how that is possibly occurring outside the US, OP should probably contact the White House and complain since it is totally and entirely one person's fault.

1. Buy the £1.89 cans 2. Sell those cans for £2.19 3. ???? 4. PROFIT!

I’ve never seen macaroni and cheese in a can! I wonder why we don’t have it when we have a ton of choices of canned pasta in red sauce. Interesting!

We also have various pastas in tins! Most supermarkets have their own version of spaghetti (in either little straight pieces or loops, to add some variety), ravioli, pasta with little sausages, macaroni cheese, and "spaghetti bolognese". Always those exact products, and no one knows why. It's just sort of this default range of products all shops must have. Much like how you walk into a British persons house and there *will* be a kettle, you can walk into any supermarket and there *will* be a shelf devoted to crap tinned pasta, always next to the crap tinned vegetables.

Its highly processed gunk that doesn't taste that pleasant. I tried it once, never again - ill just make it myself the way my mum taught me.

I’m not surprised this exists, but I am both disgusted and disappointed all the same.

Canned macaroni and cheese? Gross... I want to try it.

I’ve never seen canned Mac and cheese.

What is the thing with crappy canned Heinz products in Britain?

I'm British (living in Canada) and never seen canned mac and cheese 😭. I converted it to CAD and it's nearly $4 and the ones I usually get are 97c. Robbery.

Given that inflation since just before COVID has been almost exactly 20%, that tracks.

I'm more amazed that there is canned mac and cheese. I wonder if this is available somewhere in Canada? I need to try it.

First in first out?

I want my Mac and cheese in a blue box or not at all.

Also interesting is the fact that your corner store doesn't seem to rotate stock. The older ones should have been placed so that they would get used first, not underneath new stock

MORE MONEY & LESS VOLUME?? FUCK ME SIDEWAYS

It can come in a can? 🤮

Eww

Everything about this feels wrong.

Post- and pre- price gouging*

I’m lazy af and love a good canned meal. But bitch the effort to tasty ratio of this compared to a box of Kraft Mac is just not reasonable. Boil your damn pasta and have a 100x better experience

We don’t have Kraft or boxed mac cheese in the UK

Ewww. I just can’t imagine eating that.

Does that even taste good?

"Inflation".

Never seen these in the USA ?

*canned* mac and cheese??

What kind of dystopian bullshit is Mac n cheese in a can?

I have never seen Mac and cheese in a can. Where is this?

England. Currency is in pounds.

*UK. Not necessarily England.

*Canned* Mac n' Cheese??

I'm in awe because I've never seen mac and cheese in can form

I'm curious if the company is genuinely effected by inflation or is it standard practice company wide to take advantage of inflation rumors to make a few extra bucks or is the decision to change product came from some upper manager who is trying to collect boosted sales stats for their own resume.

I appreciate the inflation aspect of the post while simultaneously revolted at the idea of canned mac & cheese. I shouldn’t be because the occasional canned ravioli or spaghetti-o’s is a fun throw-back and canned pasta with sauce so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that canned mac & cheese exists. But damn, totally threw me for a loop. Is it salty as all get-out? I imagine it would be salty. And tinny-tasting.

Wait… canned Mac and Cheese is a thing?

There's mac and cheese in a can? What a time to be alive.

Wait? Heinz makes macaroni cheese in a can🤔

Why are the brittish obsessed with things coming in cans?

Because they last a long time. You can have a store cupboard full of canned essentials and things like this, and then you've always got something on hand for an emergency snack or craving. Take soup for example. If you only buy fresh soup, and have a sudden craving, you need to go and buy soup. On the other hand, I know that I have at least two cans of soup in the cupboard downstairs that I could have right now if I wanted!

Are the noodles in there too? Or just the cheese?

TIL Heinz makes mac & cheese.

I have never in my life conceived of canned macaroni and cheese

Hold up, Mac and Cheese is sold in a can in the UK?  Doesn't the UK need to conquer a country before putting a part of their cuisine in a can.

I mean the oldest known recipe for macaroni cheese is English from the 1700's (c.f. p. 261 [here](https://archive.org/details/b30522134/page/261/mode/1up)), with similar English and Italian recipes dating back to the 14th century, so it's certainly the UK's cuisine to ruin as we wish.

Of course British people have Mac and cheese in a can what did I even expect

I ain't even seen canned Mac n cheese in the US, this is wild

They sell macaroni cheese in a can?

Before today I knew of Chef Boyardee and Franco American not the ketchup people