Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Mac and Cheese

From a blue cardboard box, a plastic pouch is drawn. When the pouch is viciously ripped open by a pair of front teeth, it is found to be misleadingly large, as it is not even half full. The small amount of hardened tan-colored cylinders is poured into a bowl. Water spills into this bowl from a large metal stick protruding from the countertop, under which is a hole lined in metal. The bowl is then shoved into a small white room with a large window. On the outside of the room, next to the door, which covers the entire front wall, a few numbers are pressed and a few beeps sound correspondingly. The bowl rotates and its contents bubble but do not foam over. After a short period of time another, louder beep resonates and the bowl is withdrawn from the small white room. It is placed on the countertop and another pouch is opened. This one contains what appears to be radioactive dust. When poured into the bowl, it turns the interior an orange that is most commonly associated with traffic signs and crossing-guard vests. It is stirred in with a white plastic spoon which should have been disposed of after its first use but instead was washed and reused. Because of its disposable nature, the spoon softens and its shape is slightly altered. Like the spoon, the cylinders are softer now and become coated in the bright, gooey sauce. After the mixture is completely combined, the melted white plastic carries a few cylinders into a dark, moist hole which closes itself after the spoon. The spoon is removed and once again filled. The pattern continues until the bowl is empty, after which a tongue emerges from the hole and licks the lips surrounding it.

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