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September 25, 2003 9:10 AM

Things That Have Been Sold In Vending Machines. Also, Skybox, the world's first vending machine for home use.
posted by stupidsexyFlanders (10 comments total)

first link is a double
posted by donth at 9:20 AM on September 25, 2003

Nothing beats the vending machine beer that I drank in Venice, Italy. You got love 100ml of beer for about $.50.
posted by Bag Man at 9:23 AM on September 25, 2003

Art*o*mat
posted by Guy Smiley at 9:27 AM on September 25, 2003

fourth link is a double
posted by donth at 9:33 AM on September 25, 2003

Also see the Automat, an interesting restaurant relic...
posted by namespan at 9:48 AM on September 25, 2003

Also, Skybox, the world's first vending machine for home use.

If "put money in, get something out" is the definition of a vending machine then British gas meters beat Skybox to "first vending machine in the home" by a long, long time.
posted by m@ at 10:17 AM on September 25, 2003

egg-o-mat!
posted by goddam at 10:31 AM on September 25, 2003

My physics teacher has a vending machine for number two pencils in his classroom that he built and patented twenty five years ago when he started teaching... He claims to have made more than $9,000 since then.
posted by bubukaba at 10:36 AM on September 25, 2003

My favorite vending machine was in a restaurant bathroom in a local hotel. It sold breath mints, condoms, and Tylenol. Someone had written above the product labels "before," "during," and "after."
posted by alms at 11:02 AM on September 25, 2003

If I was going to put a vending machine in my house, I surely wouldn't choose one that operates "without coins or dollar bills." It'd be a good way to make my friends pay for their Cokes and Miller High Life.
posted by maniactown at 12:45 PM on September 25, 2003