I think most people don’t use enough noodles. It starts to taste like you are eating spaghetti sauce with meat and a random noodle mixed in. Noodle heavier and blend different cheeses with it and it will be better, and I don’t think mine is the best. I think it’s like a middle of the road food. Don’t love it but don’t hate. I won’t order it at a restaurant.
This is absolutely correct. Most people do not make it as a pasta - they make it as a casserole with some noodles as garnish. And I agree - it's not offensive or anything (although my mom used to make hers by not cooking the non-precooked noodles, and it traumatized me for life as a child). But it's just not spectacular.
I’m fully onboard with your Mac and cheese take. It’s all the same and almost never that memorable. Mac and cheese is for 5 year olds.
Yeah, and some places do weird stuff with it. Like - I love me some pepperjack cheese, but rarely is it good in macaroni. It just tastes of "trying too hard."