If I was a better blogger (ahem, resolution failure...) I would have shown a picture of this way back in April after we got home from Singapore and before it started hitting the interwebs this week. My friend posted a link to this awesomeness on facebook, I saw it mentioned on various other websites, and my mom even sent an email linking to it. Now you know something has gone viral if my mom emails it to me! (Sorry, mom!) So what is it? Only this, the most incredible invention in food technology since...the slurpee machine?
There are 7-11's all over Singapore and while buying water a few times we were able to simultaneously marvel at the mashed potato dispensers. I finally had to take a picture (covertly so as to not offend the 7-11 franchisees who decided installing this machine was a solid business decision), and we sent it to our friend who almost immediately wrote back linking to four or five YouTube videos showing how much the color, consistency, texture and gravy vary from one machine to the next. One is rather liquidy, one more sludgy, one white, one god knows what, one has brown gravy, one gray, one has lumpy gravy, one has gravy as thin as water. Seriously, google this thing. Overall the videos proved that this idea is a massive failure. I couldn't bring myself to actually try some mashed potatoes while there. I think Dave would have left me right then and there if I had done so, mid bite. Mid slurp?
"Grounds for divorce?"
"She bought mashed potatoes out of a machine at a 7-11 in Singapore, Your Honor. With gravy."
"Granted!"
So I saved my marriage and my stomach by not sampling. We're going back to Singapore in August. Dare I try them then? Maybe by then they'll have a turkey dispenser too.
But really the lesson in this post is that I need to be a better blogger! I could have hit the web with this amazing story three months ago. I could have gone viral! At this point this machine is old news. Bo-ring. Mashed potatoes out of a machine? Everyone knows they are so summer 2012.
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