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Kraft Mac and Cheese won’t be orange anymore, officially killing our childhood

By Josh Hill

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Kraft is dropping it’s iconic orange look to it’s Mac & Cheese, which is alarming in more ways than one. 

Kraft has revealed that they will no longer be featuring an orange look to their mac & cheese, as the company no longer deems it safe to put the artificial dye that made the cheese orange in their products.

This has prompted an outcry from those of us who grew up on the iconic orange food, but while many are claiming this is killing our childhoods it serves as another reminder that we’ll be as dead as our childhoods pretty soon too.

According to Kraft, they’re dropping the artificial dye that makes their mac & cheese orange — which not only kills our childhood but is probably not good for our long term health.

"“We know parents want to feel good about the foods they eat and serve their families,” said Kraft spokeswoman Lynne Galia, who added that the company has been working on the change for three years. “Our loyal fans told us they don’t want their Kraft Mac & Cheese to look or taste different. We’ve worked hard so the new recipe will have the same look and taste that people know and love from the iconic blue box.”"

This is crushing news to people who actually care about the color of their mac & cheese, and to be fair it was a big part of all our childhoods. The orange look to the mac & cheese is embedded in our memories — but it turns out that memory is probably going to give us all some sort of cancer some day.

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Everyone was scared about cell phones giving this generation brain tumors, but all who knew what we needed to be worried about was something seemingly as harmless as mac & cheese. This isn’t the death of our childhood, this is just the realization that we were raised on horrible food that is slowly killing us.

Think about all the things you ate as a kid, now think about how everything we ate is being changed so it’s no longer harmful to our health. That’s about as unnerving as it gets.

Subway recently took high fructose corn syrup out of there bread recipe — which was news to most of us that it was in there in the first place. McDonald’s is just now serving ‘all natural’ chicken, proving that we were eating nasty chicken paste our entire lives. Soda companies are changing the amounts of chemicals they put in pop and a host of other companies are changing their recipes to make them less harmful to us.

So while everyone is whining about the color of mac & cheese changing, let’s not skate over the fact that we’re basically upset that we’re no longer going to be putting melted cancer on our noodles anymore.

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