Review: Aldi's Specially Selected Lobster Mac and Cheese

We did it, team - we found the very worst frozen meal. 🙌

Aldi Specially Selected Lobster Mac and Cheese 

Buying this Lobster Mac and Cheese at Aldi was really, when you think about it, an act of hope. 

“Oh la la, Lobster Mac and Cheese,” I said out loud to everyone around me in the frozen food section. “What am I, the Queen of England?” 

(I bought it last month so please understand, it was much more appropriate to say things like that back then.) 

Even though I run a frozen food blog and really should know better, I think the $9 price tag on this one (.....) had me believing in a fantasy world - a world where I’d eat these wearing silk gloves, using a solid gold fork and knife, sitting at a real table instead of hovering over the sink like I normally do.

Instead, what I got was the single worst frozen meal I have ever had. 

Let’s dive in.

Taste: 0/5

I began to suspect things would start going south with this one on about minute 7 in the microwave, when my kitchen suddenly had the overtly fishy smell of a back-alley discount aquarium - one that stores schools of fish in kiddie pools and lets you feed the dolphin bits of mozzarella sticks. 

The flavor was disturbingly sweet, with an aftertaste that can only be described as “the flavor of food poisoning.” 

I tried to get Gramma, my cat, to take a sniff. Even she hated it, and her favorite food is a can of something called “Turkey and Cheddar Cheese Feast in Gravy.” 

I tried to take a video of trying this. It didn’t work out well.

Appearance: -a billion/5

Honestly, this Aldi Lobster Mac and Cheese belongs in a museum, but only a museum like: 

• The Museum of the Worst Things in the World 

• The William J. Henry Museum of Things You Definitely Don’t Want To Eat 

• The Medieval Torture Museum in St. Augustine, Florida

Overall: 0/5

The only way I would recommend you eat the Aldi Specially Selected Lobster Mac and Cheese is if you’re in some sort of Home Alone situation and the only way to escape the burglars is to feed them garbage.

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