vending-machines

Move over, Japan. France has the next bizarre vending machine.According to the English-language European publication The Local, Paris is now home to the first meat-peddling vending machine, and we don’t mean jerky.The machine, placed outside butcher shop L’ami Txulette, offers pork chops (€5, $5.66), beef carpaccio (€6, $6.79), 250-gram steaks (€8, $9.05), ham and even chicken eggs. It accepts…

Vending machines have come a long way since their inception. Candy bars, hot coffee, cigarettes, even Proactiv acne treatments: There have been a plethora of increasingly odd items found in these mini stores, and the technological advances appear to just be getting started.On the health-conscious and gourmet tips, vending machines have offered jars of salad in Chicago, bananas in…

Two years ago, I was in a biker bar in Sturgis, South Dakota (hey, don’t judge), when I spotted an unusual vending machine. Just below the Pringles and Life Savers were three rows of cigarettes – priced at just $4.00 a pack, no less. It was an utter anachronism, like seeing a Shakespearean actor wear…