I used to love this stuff. Back when I was a bachelor living in a room with a one-unit hot plate it was one of my go-to meals. I haven't had it in maybe 40 years. I was looking for something else at the supermarket the other day and happened to see this on the shelf. I saw "Tangy Italian" and immediately flashed back - "
Lucia!" I dated Lucia at about the same time I was living on Kraft spaghetti and Kraft macaroni and cheese* and I guess I made the connection from there, but I digress.
So I bought a box and cooked it up and it was pretty horrible. The box comes with some pasta that cooks up gummy and gloppy and there is a spice packet and a little foil packet of sawdust that is labeled "parmesan." It has a distinctive spice flavoring that wish I could replicate, but otherwise it was awful. I stopped using salt about 15 years ago and lost my taste for it, so normal salt levels are a bit too salty for me. This stuff is LOADED with salt.
I give it 5 stars for being an actual food product that, like cockroaches and tortoises, has endured beyond all reason.
* At one time, in the depths of bachelorhood and after too many Robin Hood ales to allow me to go shopping for decent food I actually made Kraft Macaroni and Cheese with sliced hot dogs and made white bread sandwiches with it.
