Thursday, August 11, 2011

Bread Distortion

You've seen them, those "recent search topics" that show up as lists on various websites. I generally pass right over them but tonight one topic caught my eye - vending machines for bread.

They have to be kidding.  I can't even get a loaf of bread from the store shelf to the checkout line without squishing it.  Imagine bread coming out of a vending machine.

Notice I didn't ask you to imagine the vending of a loaf of bread.  Even if it did start out as a properly shaped loaf in the deep recesses of the machine, by the time it rode through the steel spiral drivers, fell two feet, and then was yanked through a narrow plastic opening the bread would like either like a cinnamon twist doughnut or the belly of the Pillsbury Dough Boy.

Would you like your bread cream or jelly filled?

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