And No.....This isn't a Rachael Ray thing where she cooks healthy meals in 20 minutes or less. This is how much slop can we throw together in one skillet to make something that resembles S**T on the way out. (that is guaranteed to bind you up BTW)
The real story here is that the collapsing American family, beset by unemployment, divorce, strife, poverty, and misery on all sides, has but one single pleasure left at the end of its dreary day: a real, home-cooked meal. Of course mom (dad left long ago) is too tired from working her three part-time jobs to do much real cooking. But still, the spirit is there, and isn't that what's important? (from the website Gawker's article titled:
THE VELVEETA CHEESY SKILLETING OF AMERICA)
What does it mean? What is it trying to communicate? How are Velveeta Cheesy Skillets—boxes containing both pasta and processed artificial "Cheez" ingestible substance, to which you may add grease and carcass meat as you like—an "indication," of anything?
So the next time you hear the commercial shout out jingle from a kid "Hey Mom (or Dad these days) What's For Dinner?".......and think to yourself "Stovetop" I'm staying"!!!...... just remember what it was like back in the good ole' days when people actually cooked a meal that required more than one burner on the real stove (not a microwave)...... those days are gone.
The politics and sociology and economics of The American Dream Food has turned into a one skillet wonder.
And be happy you got that.
Now go back to your rat cheese maze to collect some more Velveeta so that you can cook it in one skillet in 20 minutes.
That's The New American Dream Food !!!!
When this story makes the Wall Street Journal, It's News. It's money news and food news and social news all in one big Skillet.