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Lobster Mac N’ Cheese: No
Stop doing this immediately.
Look, I get it. Lobster is delicious. Macaroni and cheese is delicious. What could go wrong? A lot. A lot could go wrong.
We know the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, and that explains lobster mac n’ cheese. Combining two wonderful things with the intention to create an extra-special wonderful thing is to be human, of course. It’s an elegant formula, in theory. But in practice, it almost always creates a monster. And because we cling desperately to our good intentions even when we make undeniable and irreparable mistakes, we can’t admit we’ve created a beast.
Other monsters have been created with the best of intentions: Pumpkin spice lattes (don’t @ me); goober peanut butter and jelly spread, and Brangelina are all prime examples. (Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are wonderful by themselves, but together they were a two-headed behemoth, sweeping up children around the globe, virtue signaling, and making the rest of us constantly check in on Jennifer Aniston).
But we’re so committed to the formula of squishing two wonderful things together, we not only continue to do it, we actually promote the outcomes as if they are a revelation, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. When lobster mac n’ cheese arrived on the scene many years ago — so long ago it’s hard to…