Del Taco offers Barq’s as their root beer of choice, and I assume they just blended that with some vanilla ice cream and boom! Root Beer Float Shake. The answer is yes, and that’s exactly what this shake tasted like. Can’t you make a root beer float shake just by mixing the ice cream and soda in a float together? Root Beer Float…Shake? What? It just seemed like an odd name and concept. My main motivation, beyond already enjoying the occasional root beer float, was the name. I bought the Root Beer Float Shake almost as an afterthought. The batter can’t save the bland, artificial-tasting cheese and the forgettable macaroni pasta. In the end, I have to judge Mac ‘n Cheese Crunch Bites on their own, and the verdict is not good. Which is still not the highest of praises. Slathered in Del Inferno, the Crunch Bites rise to the status of “acceptable snack if you’re really stoned”. I also found that, like with Kraft macaroni and cheese, it becomes much more palatable when used as a vehicle for hot sauce. The pasta and cheese have the batter to thank for it being mildly edible. If the macaroni and cheese had been served in a bowl instead of a fried triangle, it would have been usalvageable. What’s interesting is that the cheese also managed to be rather bland. When I’m buying Mac ‘n Cheese Crunch Bites from Del Taco, I’m not expecting to find gourmet flavors inside a fried batter shell. The cheese tasted markedly artificial, but that’s to be expected. The pasta has an okay texture it didn’t taste mushy or undercooked, but it was largely unremarkable. You can see the little bifurcated macaronis covered in unnaturally orange cheese…substance. Unfortunately, the inside didn’t do justice to the outside. The texture and flavor were reminiscent of the beer batter you’d find on a nice piece of fish you’d order with chips. The batter had a nice crunch and was lighter than I thought it would be. They were, of course, appropriately greasy, what with being fried and all. The coaster was five inches away would it have been so hard to use it?
Paula deen deep fried mac and cheese full#
Odd choice for Del Taco, but I’m not complaining.Īs you can see, these Crunch Bites come in a triangular shape size-wise, they’d fit nicely into the circular stain on your coffee table that your friend left after he passed out with a full glass of gin and tonic in front of him. Since I’ve already admitted I’m an adult who enjoys mac ‘n’ cheese, might as well try fried mac ‘n’ cheese. I mainly use it as a vessel to deliver massive amounts of Cajun seasoning and hot sauce into my body when I have a salt craving and desire something a little more tangible than ramen. At least I avoid those that are shaped like someone who lives in a pineapple under the sea. Grammar nazi rage over the omission of a second apostrophe after the “n” aside, I was immediately interested. So you can imagine my surprise when Del Taco announced that they had a new product called Mac ‘n Cheese Crunch Bites. I was intrigued, but not enough to actually make them myself, so I figured I’d never see fried mac and cheese again, unless someone held a gun to my head and forced me to go to the state fair. During a brief period of insanity in my life, I actually watched shows besides Good Eats on the Food Network, and thus witnessed ham-to-the-face Paula make these bite-sized heart attacks. I also have Paula Deen to thank for my knowledge of deep-fried macaroni and cheese. You can thank Paula Deen for my knowledge of that phenomenon, even though she wasn’t the first to pioneer such a revolutionary concept. Oreos, candy bars, beer, bacon (of course), even butter. Now that I’ve gotten out my inappropriate level of irritation at Kraft and Canada, let’s get down to brass tacks. Also, a whole section on Kraft “Dinner” and Canadian culture? This Wikipedia entry is obviously Canuck-skewed. Kraft for making me visit their Wikipedia page in an attempt to identify current pop-culture pasta shapes, and Canada for making me wonder why the fuck the Kraft Macaroni and Cheese Wikipedia entry was titled “Kraft Dinner”, which made me read the discussion page, and any time I read a discussion page on Wikipedia I’m guaranteed to lose my mind. If you’re an adult eating pasta shaped like the Mystery Machine, you’re either finishing your kid’s leftovers or you’ve made some seriously poor life decisions.Īs a side note, I’m now irritated at Kraft and Canada. The macaroni even comes in shapes like Scooby-Doo and Spongebob Squarepants. I suppose we have Kraft to thank for that the current commercials I’ve seen for their iconic blue-box pasta consist of children splashing around in puddles of cheese sauce, irritating me with their gap-toothed grins and overenthusiastic energy. Macaroni and cheese is generally considered a kids’ food.
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