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Strange things you can buy in vending machines
News Limited ^ | July 9, 2017 | Michelle Tchea

Posted on 07/09/2017 3:54:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

YOU can now eat gourmet vending machine food. No longer limited to packets of chips and a can of coke, machines around the world now dispense farm-fresh produce, caviar, and even bottles of Moet.

And if you’ve got a bit of extra cash to throw around, why not buy some gold ... or even a brand new Ferrari from a vending machine?

Here are our favourites.

Champagne

Location: Gold Coast, Las Vegas, and Selfridges in London.

What you get: The Star Gold Coast’s Garden Kitchen & Bar is the first venue in Australia with a champagne vending machine by Moet & Chandon. Think you need a glass? Drink the bubbly through a gold sipper on the bottle if you are truly desperate and can’t wait for the bartender to bring you your glasses. Yours for just $29 each. Cheers.

Sex Toys

Location: Philadelphia

What you get: A Philadelphia-based vending machine company, PinkBox believes ‘sex should be exciting, fun and safe’. Don’t be shy, pick up condoms, Lelo vibrators, glass dildos and even restraint kits to help make your business a ‘better place’ says PinkBox. Prices start at $4 to $99. Each product is curated and hand-picked by the resident PinkBox sex-expert, so you know you’re getting the best.

Gold

Location: Las Vegas, Abu Dhabi and Dubai, but of course.

What you get: Gold to Go thought they were on to something when they first launched a vending machine exclusively selling gold in vending machines. Rumour has it, the machines are slowly being removed because no one is really investing in gold anymore, which is a shame, but we like the idea of encouraging novice gold investors to invest in a cool $1000 gold bar during a vay-cay in Dubai. Why not?[continued]

(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food
KEYWORDS: beverages; food; vending

1 posted on 07/09/2017 3:54:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“My folks vacationed in Dubai and all they brought me back was this lousy $1000 gold bar.”


2 posted on 07/09/2017 4:07:29 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Here is an idea, instead of EBT cards where they can go to the store and buy chips and soda, you have a vending machine that dispenses the basics and you can pay with either cash or an EBT card.

Stuff like canned food, ultrapastureized milk, etc....

Make it mandatory that there is no cash value for the container to prevent fraud. emboss a logo on the cans/containers so that if any store is caught re-selling the food they get shut down.

Of course the libtards would WHINE about it


3 posted on 07/09/2017 4:08:15 PM PDT by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, than it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In Southport Florida a few years ago at the Dixie Dandy Grocery there was a vending machine out front that dispensed small boxes of crickets and worms for bait. I wish I still had a pic of it to post.


4 posted on 07/09/2017 4:13:39 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Putin Memorabilia

Hmmm, maybe there is a market for Obama Chia Pet heads in vending machines.

5 posted on 07/09/2017 4:22:18 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’ve seen a vending machine at a resort in Asia that sold inexpensive disposable underwear.


6 posted on 07/09/2017 4:31:08 PM PDT by Nicholas Sharpe (An old Sea Dog)
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To: GraceG

That is an excellent idea.


7 posted on 07/09/2017 4:32:54 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Man-made global liberalism is killing the planet)
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To: Nicholas Sharpe

Used to be that every gas station had rubber vending machines.


8 posted on 07/09/2017 4:41:04 PM PDT by Bonemaker
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

You can use the data to track how the benefits cards are being used.

The machines could vend out thing like diapers, hygene products, baby food, etc..

You could also hire welfare people to restock them as part of a jobs training program.

You could place the machines either near gubermint housing, or outside supermarkets too.

People who are not on welfare could use cash to buy items as well instead of going to the store in the middle of the night for baby food, diapers, etc...

Think of it as EBT red box.


9 posted on 07/09/2017 4:43:12 PM PDT by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, than it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

My first day reporting to Cubi Point NAS in the Philippines, I was amazed to see beer machines in the Barracks. Just like soda machines except they dispensed ice cold bottles of San Miguel


10 posted on 07/09/2017 4:51:54 PM PDT by mr_griz (Someday we'll have a KING who rules with real justice, compassion & concern for his subjects - JESUS)
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To: All

I have seen some bizarre things in Asian vending machines. I remember a sports drink in Tokyo called Pocari Sweat. Ummm tasty lol

A Ferrari? Seems hard to believe. The questionnaire you have to fill out to buy a new one is - beyond extensive.


11 posted on 07/09/2017 4:53:20 PM PDT by TheTimeOfMan (A time for peace and a time for war)
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To: mr_griz

We had those in Korea too. San Miguel was one of the brands.


12 posted on 07/09/2017 5:02:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: arthurus

Try this for photos

https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=AwrSbmZ.0WJZ0kYAG7xXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTE0bzU3amsxBGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDVUkyQzNfMQRzZWMDcGl2cw—?p=vending+machine+for+crickets+bait&fr2=piv-web&fr=yhs-invalid


13 posted on 07/09/2017 6:01:26 PM PDT by deport
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To: BenLurkin

That was my gold bar,...I put the money in but the bar just hung on that little coil and wouldn’t drop out. /s


14 posted on 07/09/2017 6:05:13 PM PDT by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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To: Cvengr

My best friend’s music store had a Coke Machine that vended bottles. No one ever asked about the bottom hole with green bottles. That was my slot. And they were Heinekens.


15 posted on 07/09/2017 7:48:52 PM PDT by MGG
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Interesting....


16 posted on 07/09/2017 8:30:22 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I saw a guy put his hand through the glass on a vending machine by holding a magic black hole copied on a piece of paper on the glass. Then, he went to the office safe and did the same thing. He taped the paper to the safe door, crawled through the magic black hole, and then the paper slipped off of the door. Couldn't get back out.

Saw it all with my own eyes, here:

Black Hole Copier.

17 posted on 07/09/2017 8:57:22 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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