By Mike Thayer

A nice alternative side to fries

Mac & Cheese, it’s probably on most people’s Top 10 list of comfort foods and it’s a trending side now with many fast food restaurants, an alternative to the standard offering of fries.  

Today, I’m sampling the mac & cheese version of the comfort food and cult classic from Popeyes.

Here’s the description from the restaurant’s website:  Mac & Cheese made with real butter and cream and topped with shredded cheddar cheese to create a golden brown crust when baked in the oven.

This is a nice mac & cheese.  You get the butter and cream in every bite, the sauce is a nice creamy consistency and the coverage is complete.  The golden brown shredded cheddar topping while tasty, wasn’t evenly distributed.  The foundation of the side, the noodles, were a bit on the soggy side, a bit of a downer.  I like noodles to be a little al dente, but that might be too much to expect in a fast food mac & cheese.  Overall, this is a good mac & cheese, it’s seasoned well, creamy, comforting, a really nice change-of-pace to french fries.

Costing less than $2 for a regular size side, I’m giving Popeyes New Homestyle Mac & Cheese 4 out of 5 stars.  More reasonably priced than competitor sides, this is a nicely done homestyle mac & cheese and better than what the other fast food joints reviewed below are offering.

$pend Wisely My Friends…

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