Yesterday in my photo studio they were filming what I assumed to be an industrial training video. In the morning I saw the crew loading a machine into the studio and I didn't pay much attention.

Working next door in the office, I heard what sounded like an air rifle being fired in the studio, over and over again. I went back to investigate and saw this:

The second half of the video above is lifted from the company's website; I'm not sure why it lacks audio, and the subtitles seem oddly truncated. In any case, you load what look like grain pellets into the Delice Magic Pop Machine and it starts spitting out multigrain snack cakes. (I tried a couple and they're tasty, if you dig rice cakes.)

South-Korea-based manufacturer Delice is marketing the Magic Pop in Israel, Russia, Iran, the Netherlands, and the USA (there are Asian sandwich shops in California that have had Delice machines for years, albeit with a custard-filled variant). We might as well face the fact that we eat food produced by machines, and the Magic Pop wears its industriality on its sleeve, cranking out its healthy treats in plain view of the snacker.