Carson
Premium Member
This reminds me of something that happened to my roommate in college about eight years ago. We were constantly "less than overjoyed" with the options of our school cafeteria, and out of necessity, we developed a unique resourcefulness for creating something edible out of something, well... something. This often resulted in wafflemaker grilled cheese, corndog salads, etc. One day Matt, who will remain nameless... er... almost nameless, had the brilliant idea to make an open faced grilled cheese in the "conveyor toaster." While this may have seemed like a great idea at the time, he failed to take the design of the machine into account.
You many immediately see why his creation ended in chaos, but for those of you that don't... I will try to walk you through the series of events.
Matt, *cough*..... my nameless roommate placed two slices of cheese on each of two slices of white bread and placed them on the conveyor of the toaster, which was very similar to the one pictured above. All was fine as his grilled cheeses (is cheeses the correct plural case?) entered the machine. As you would expect, the cheese began to bubble and the bread began to toast. When the quasi sandwiches reached the back of the machine(and the end of the conveyor), they flipped upside down to slide out of the return shoot. Ordinarily, this is business as usual, but not when each sandwich is topped with two slices of melted cheese. Instead of briskly sliding from the front of the machine, both sandwiches stuck to the inside of the machine. It was immediately turned off, however it was much too hot to reach inside and remove the sandwiches. Within seconds, and before the cafeteria staff realized what was happening, the sandwiches began to burn and smoke was everywhere. There was much yelling and finger pointing at my roommate, as it took a few moments for people to realize there was no fire. He made a quick exit before the staff could find out his name, and as I recall, I did not see that toaster again for at least a week.
