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Seen next to a bakery. Neat.
In my mum's village they have a pizza vending machine, I tried it for the novelty and I was pleasantly surprised, it was delicious! You could get it cooked or uncooked, it's got some sort of built-in oven in the machine. The guy who makes them restocks every day and rotates the menu every week. There was also a dessert and salad machine next to it so you could get yourself an entire dinner. Also super fresh and bloody good!
I had one of those here in Finland, the price to quality was okay (12€), it was better than frozen but not quite as good as restaurant pizza, but considering it was done in less than 5min was really cool. My biggest consern was that the pizza box had a somewhat open bottom, so it would cool down too much while taking it home. But eating it there at a park would be fun
How so? Having an open bottom seems counter-intuitive.
For some reason I'm just having trouble imagining it.
There is a circular hole on the pizza box, the pizza is on top of a separate square piece of some kind of cardboard. I assume the box is like that for cooking it, as the raw pizza is cooked inside its box.
Oh, that makes more sense.
If you ever worked making pizza, you would understand how easy it would be to automate.
Those exist in many places in the world. I have eaten vending machine pizza in Austria too.
Well I am yet to see one in the UK so as far as my experience goes it's still a novelty.
I remember the novelty of a chicken ring vending machine at college 35 years ago. Rings instead of nuggets because more dependable on heating, but you'd pay and it would drop the rings into hot oil for an appropriate 3-4 minutes, then dispense in a cup. They were quite passable, and it was nice to have a hot food option next to the cold sandwiches and like cold burgers/burritoes you could heat in the microwave there.
That sounds delightful.
Note the scratches where the text is. Imagine the thoughtlessness, the absolute brain smoothosity of the clod who did that on an impulse they were too stupid to even remember.
I was walking behind someone like this once. They stopped for two seconds, and used their lighter to try setting a poster on fire, but, unsuccessful, kept walking.
They live among us. If you call that living.
The French are famous for protesting
Machines taking over jobs, maybe it was too expensive, maybe kids fukcing around.
Could have been smooth-brained, but someone wasted some time there.
That the same kind of damage i see on my local metro when machines stop working and dont' get fixed for a week.
There's a part of me that kind of wishes my town had surveillance akin to China's that is effective in preventing this kind of petty crime. I'm jealous of how clean Chinese cities are comparatively.
There's also a part of me that is well aware I sometimes just run red lights on my scooter at 5AM when there are no cars around, or sometimes forget a doggie bag when I'm out walking the pups, and then I'm well aware it would be used against me too and no system is perfect.
Same fucking problem. Our neighborhood has a string of thefts, (from porch pirates to stolen cars) I'd love to have something centralized and accessible to the whole community to police, but that's what flock is doing and I hate that. And even if we rolled our own, some of those asshole in the neighborhood would be bitching about kids riding bikes on empty sidewalks.
just take us back to pre-technology when we came out of our houses with baseball bats to discourage vandals.
No, Flock is very different, as there is no meaningful oversight or regulatory apparatus. (Unless you count lawsuits, which I don't.) That's certainly not the case with China.
Though the baseball bat analogy is attractive.
Looks like from cleaning
the pain machine
The nom jabbar
The naan jabbar?
Why do we even HAVE this ~~orphan crushing~~ pain machine?
No, wait, yes, let's KEEP the pain machine. :)
Ok this should be top comment.
And the make of the machine missed a real opportunity.
Showed this to my girlfriend, who is French, expecting she'd recoil in horror. But she said "yeah, we have those, it's good for when there isn't a full-time baker around".
According to their website, it can store two types of baguettes (regular and traditional) and two types of pastries (croissants and pains au chocolat)
That's great if you have a late-night baguette emergency situation!
In Belgium back in the '80s there were vending machines selling frites et mayonnaise. No idea if they still exist but they were wonderful!
I got one in France, at my local mart. And like one of these bread machine for every bakery in town.
If they ever do a marketing campaign, they should have some New Yorkers of Italian descent saying "Need some bread? Hey, baguette about it!"
I'll see myself out.
There's a bakery here in Montreal that has an automatic baguette checkout for when the line gets too crowded with coffee and pastry orders. This is probably the same deal for the bakery it flanks.
an automatic baguette checkout
Because of course they do. That's delightful and a good idea. lol
In Brittany (next to the sea usually) you can find oysters vending machines. It's weird.
That sounds awesome and fun except I'd be concerned about them staying okay - have to be careful buying fresh to not get dead ones.
I'm sure they must've worked it out sufficiently, but it'd be a worry for me. heh
Not just just baguettes mon ami! Apparently also Croissants, Pain Au Chocolat and some kind of shorter loaf too. Maybe a cheese loaf cos it's the most expensive one?
According to their website, it's two types of baguettes (traditional and regular). The one that looks bigger is probably the traditional, which is typically shorter and sometimes a bit thicker.
Congrats for using the correct "pain au chocolat" and not the evil "chocolatine" some sick people have invented.
So you're saying you experience pain au 'chocolatine'? :)
There have been evenings that I would have done anything to get fresh baked bread. I wonder how much these machines cost?
Dunno where you're at but Trader Joe's sells these half-baked breads. You bring it home, pop it in the oven for maybe 15m, and you have a nice loaf of bread, freshly baked. It scratches the itch.
That sounds amazing! But the closest trader joes to me is 65 miles away, next is 110 miles away. No shade, its I'm in bum fuck eqypt, its a small city but way far removed. If it wasn't for the highway and the university there would be nothing here.
So I have a feeling on of these machines may pay back pretty good in the right location. I mean come on, who doesn't love fresh bread.
/except people that have celiac, thats a rough thing as gluten is everywhere.
Regular grocery stores sell par-baked breads, and have for a long time.
One brand, LeBrea, is particularly common, and good.
LeBrea, I'll see if my local has it, thank you for the help!
Actually you don't need to buy the entire machine to have a baguette out of those
Where is the bread coming out?
The hole to the right of the selection buttons, in the center of the machine.
I'm guessing that square in the middle is a slot.
Comes out long ways 😭
I hope they’re still allowed to breathe. Nothing worse than a soggy baguette
This is France were talking about, even the shittiest last remaining supermarket baguette is still crunchier then any you can find outside the country.
That vending machine either keeps them perfect or is only a tourist trap.