Colin ([info]colinmo) wrote,
2007-05-25 11:15:00
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Machine challenge won.

Yesterday a new vending machine was installed at the Common. A hot chip vending machine.

I'll let you think about that for a moment.

Now, we didn't trust it so we spoke to the guy who was installing it. Who was very informative, talking about self contained systems, patented hot chip frying process and the like. So with a bit more trust (and after poking the machine to ensure it existed) we tried it.

Hot chip vending machineThe machine itself in all its glory.
Money eatingMoney goes in, does anything come out?
Choose your chipnessHot chips, or hot chips with Tomato Sauce? Unfortunately no options for gravy or vinegar.
Press button, receive chipsVICTORY!
Hot chips via vending machineThe mandatory product shot.


All in all... the chips were tasty. It took longer than the advertised 90 seconds because of weighing and the like - but still. Fast. Chip-esque. Edible. What more do you want in a student common room?
Tags: chips, food, odd, vending machines

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[info]strickland

May 25 2007, 01:50:18 UTC 4 years ago

That is awesome in its strangeness... I've never been 'sitting around' and gone... "Wow I could go for some fries (aka chips)... I wish there was a vending machine with fries about." But who knows I'm sure someone has.

[info]colinmo

May 25 2007, 02:06:23 UTC 4 years ago

Someone who felt strongly enough about it to get a company started. There's a lesson here, people who aren't me shouldn't have free time.

[info]belegdel

May 25 2007, 06:07:24 UTC 4 years ago

My brother (the chef) apparently knows someone in the "hot asian meal" vending machine business.
He said the quality was good. He also said they have redundant power systems and automated "content use by" alarms and such.

I said I'd still never use one.
But there you go.

[info]colinmo

May 25 2007, 06:10:32 UTC 4 years ago

Still, the hot asian meal venders, they'd be more like instant noodles all sealed up and the machine just has to add hot water (and monitor the content use by, as you say).

This is far too much cooking to be trusted.

...Although I'd love to crack one open and fill the chip drawer with battered mars bars...

[info]colinmorris

May 25 2007, 13:27:25 UTC 4 years ago

Hey. Aussie. See those fat letters on the front of the machine? F-R-I-E-S.

S'what's inside. :)

[info]colinmo

May 28 2007, 00:42:40 UTC 4 years ago

I refused to take culinary correction from the country that created 'Freedom Fries' :P

[info]colinmorris

May 28 2007, 20:19:49 UTC 4 years ago

Touché. I work hard to neutralize the influence of people in the states who create and use such phrases as all "Freedom ______."

[info]dash_aitch

May 25 2007, 14:27:37 UTC 4 years ago

what a world we live in, eh.

[info]colinmo

May 28 2007, 03:40:03 UTC 4 years ago

I'm waiting for the deep fried Nestle snack machine.

[info]kissindra

May 25 2007, 21:46:32 UTC 4 years ago

that is awesome in it's weirdness

[info]colinmo

May 25 2007, 23:26:41 UTC 4 years ago

Surely is. Although now someone needs to make a potato-and-gravy vending machine next to it.
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