Posted on 10/03/2010 5:14:49 PM PDT by DemforBush
For travelers, a vending machine can be a welcome sight. Perhaps its just for a quick snack when the rest of the airport is closed. Or, overseas, an easy transaction without any language hurdles. But these days, the vending machine is diversifying. Now travelers can find all sorts of things inside these contraptionsitems that range from the practical to the absurd...
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BTW, here's a link to a slideshow for all 26 featured vending machines.
I'm thinking about stealing that one that serves up Pilsner Urquell, btw. :-)
Another interesting thing was the retail vending trucks that would cruise the neighborhood like an old style ice cream truck.
The beer guy played German beer hall music. I often had to suppress my glee as I ran out the door with a fist full of yen.
I didn't have nearly the same enthusiasm about the Yam guy.
"He goes to a better place!"
In West Seattle, there is a bike shop with a vending machine outside so customers can shop for tubes, patches, tools, gloves, etc after hours.
I missed the hot coffee in a can when I was in Japan, but those beer vending machines were often my best friend.
LOL about the Yam guy, btw. :-)
Yep, the lobster machine was the best. it’s a game and a vending machine! The people that aren’t good at it subsidize the prices of the people that are good at it.
LOVE IT!
While in Malaysia or Indonesia can I get some Squid with that Kebob; and if in the Netherlands does the Porn Package have a coloring book./s
Although, if you do find a vending machine which dispenses Boddingtons on the pull, Ill take one; would go nicely in the clubroom.
And I had a hard time understanding this from Pennsylvania:
To offer convenience to shoppers, the Keystone State is now selling wine through state-run vending machines located at a few Giant and Wegmans supermarkets. First you must scan your ID and blow into a Breathalyzer. A state employeewatching remotely through a camerachecks your test results and identification, then approves the transaction. Or doesn't.So you have to go to a state store (or now a state run kiosk) to even get wine? Even in the Nanny State of Ohio we can get our own beer and wine at the grocery (liquor licenses are more limited).
We had beer vending machines in FDC AIT (specialty school Army), many years ago, a quarter for a can of Pabst or Schlitz.
My favorite was the beer bottle vending machines in the barracks in the Philippines...cold San Miguel for 25 cents!
Hahahahaa, “engrish” is just the best, isn’t it?
I once saw a restaurant in Taegu, South Korea advertising a special “Flesh meat buffet” on its sign.
YUM-YUM! ;)
In a community a bit north of here in a more rural area there is a bait vending machine. You put your dollar in and get a box of live crickets.
It was that way in 1967 when I lived there and I understand that it's still the same, the state has a monopoly on the package liquor industry.
It's laugh city. I haven't been able to quit it since posting that.
The Atlanta Airport has a Best Buy vending machine... Sells ipods, phones, video games... even a laptop computer. Pretty bizarre.
If you had asked me 20 years ago what I thought about a vending machine dispensing movies I would have thought that was strange, who would want to rent movies from a box. Now, together with Netflix, it has slayed the Blockbuster giant.
As toilet is not furnished with tissue, guests should purchase from this machine.
That is MO, isn’t it?
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