College girls use 56 boxes of mac and cheese as a bath bomb and we don't know why

Just...why?
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Samantha Scelzo
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Despite what you've heard, mac and cheese will not get you clean.

This week in teen news, 19-year-old students and roommates at Oklahoma State University Madison Harper and Ashley Randall use an insane amount of boxed macaroni and cheese as a cheesy, surely smelly, bath bomb. The girls' roommate Anne Henry Maggio documented the event on Twitter because, ya know, college. And the photos are...well...something.

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*Sends pic of cheese-less noddles*

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Maggio said that the bath was her idea as a joke to Randall. She explained, "Ashley said she wanted to make 10 pots of mac and cheese and I said 'Well why don't ya bathe in it then?,' and here we are."

So what started out at a bout of possible hunger blossomed into what you see before you.

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The girls used a whopping 56 boxes of Kraft macaroni and cheese to create their bath. They first cooked the noodles on the stove, like you would to eat it, then dumped them into the tub and used spoons and hands to mix in the cheese. Once the pasta was ~al dente~ as they say, the girls strapped on their swim suits and dove right in.

Ahh, luxurious.

Once they posted the photos, there was no way the people of Twitter were going to let the girls get away with this one.

Some people were disgusted.

Some were mad.

Some were really confused.

Most just couldn't handle it.

"The reaction has been CRAZY," Maggio said. "There's been a lot of backlash and some are upset, while others love it and think it's hilarious."

Baths are supposed to be sacred, soothing ways to unwind and relax after a hard day. How did it turn into this? How did we get here?

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Samantha Scelzo

Samantha was a Watercooler Web Culture & Lifestyle intern at Mashable. Follow her on Twitter @samiscelz.

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