What a total crock.
First of all, macaroni and cheese? Really? It doesn't even matter if it was Kraft Mac 'n Cheese or someone's deliciously crusty homemade version, I would be bored after the second helping in 2 days. I would probably be more bored with the Kraft version, but is there a food in the world that is less interesting than macaroni and cheese?
According to the article in the link, people have a threshold for tolerance of the same thing over and over again, be it a popular song getting too much radio airplay, a shitcom episode rerun too many times, or food, and the article claims that " [i]t’s not even necessary that the repetitive food be boring: you’ll habituate to pizza almost as easily as you do to boiled chicken."
I know I complain that, cooking for just myself, I end up having to eat the same thing for 2 or more days in a row. However, this study claims that people who had the mac and cheese every day got tired of it and decreased their portions, while the people who had it only once a week consumed more of it over time. I'm sure the full study was written up in the journal this article mentioned, but in the article there were a few salient points that never got mentioned, such as what were these bitches eating at home? What time of the day did they report to the study site? And the most significant question, in my opinion: When they were growing up, were they often told, '"This is not a restaurant," and/or, "if you're hungry, you'll eat what I cooked"?
Because those things matter.
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