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# Parachuting Grilled Cheese: The Latest Delivery Food

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by 

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## Kyle Chayka


May 1, 2014 4:22 PM UTC

by 

[Kyle Chayka](https://time.com/author/kyle-chayka/)


## Kyle Chayka


May 1, 2014 4:22 PM UTC

Getting Seamless is great—food arrives at your door with little more than the click of a button. But wouldn’t it be better if it actually floated slowly down to you with the help of a parachute?

That’s the big idea behind [Jafflechutes](http://hypervocal.com/vids/2014/grilled-cheese-by-parachute/), a Melbourne pop-up restaurant that serves grilled cheeses by sending them down into an alleyway with the help of parachutes to hungry customers below. Jaffle is Australian slang for grilled cheese—it refers to a kind of [waffle maker](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandwich%5Ftoaster) for toasted sandwiches—hence the portmanteau name.

Patrons pay ahead of time with PayPal then stand in a predetermined spot to await their meal (it’s marked with an X). Arms outstretched, they receive their grilled cheese in a manner not unlike getting blessed by the Pope. As the video above shows, it’s a much more interactive way of getting takeout.

Jafflechutes just completed a [crowd-funding campaign](http://www.pozible.com/project/179962/216995) to bring their airborne food to Manhattan, so keep your eyes people. If something hits you on the head on the New York sidewalk, it might be a sandwich instead of, you know, a pigeon.

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