I need this mac and cheese dispenser in my house, pronto
Issue 178: Stouffer's is releasing the Mac on Tap later this year. This is not a drill!
Hello! Welcome to Nosh Box, a lunchtime-ish food newsletter that accidentally jumped from Issue 177 last Thursday to Issue 179 yesterday. My apologies to the zero of you who noticed, but obviously I’ve been thinking about it nonstop for the past 24 hours.
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Alright folks, we all know this year has been bad. From the coronavirus to the murder hornets to the 100-degree temps in the Arctic, I think we maxed out our 2020 apocalypse bingo card before the year was even half over.
But Stouffer’s, the frozen food company, is here to make sure we all have at least one good day this year: July 14, National Macaroni and Cheese Day. To celebrate one of the best comfort foods around, they’re creating… a macaroni and cheese dispenser.
Meet the Mac on Tap:
It’s weird and over-the-top and the mac and cheese probably won’t be the best you’ve ever tried — but it’ll be plentiful and flow like beer, and, well, isn’t that enough?
The Mac on Tap apparently has an internal heater that keeps the macaroni and accompanying cheese at optimal serving temp, like a nacho cheese dispenser. A Stouffer’s spokesperson told Today.com that the machines would start rolling out later this year (!!!) — no word yet on where exactly they’ll be, but I could see something like this getting a ton of love at gas stations, ballparks, college dining halls, maybe even burger restaurants as a new topping. Can we get them for our homes? Maaaaybe.
In case you need to visualize how this works, Stouffer’s also put together a somewhat unsettlingly low-production-value gif:
This is the kind of creative thinking we need, folks. Maybe this is the start of a whole Coca Cola Freestyle-style mac and cheese extended universe, where we can just select an option on the screen for different types of noodles, a three-cheese blend, pesto, buffalo chicken…
This has gotta cancel out something in 2020, right? I’d return the existence of the name “X Æ A-12” in exchange for this beaut.
