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We live in S Cataluña and in our village centre there are the usual selection of butchers, bakers and candlestick makers. It is also a centre for honey production and exports all over Europe. The butchers has a machine where you can get sausages and random bits of pig, including ears 24/7, the honey shop has similar and today I noticed that the church has a candle vending machine with a selection of sizes and colours. So anyone suffering from a nocturnal attack of the munchies can have slow cooked pig's ear in honey, sounds delicious. There is, however, no ciggy machine or condom dispenser hence the healthy number of children around 😏
Tuna Sarnie from a hospital vending machine posted on a mates insta. I think it was in Aus.
Inner tubes at the road side in france.
Used pants. Not kidding! #japan
A slightly strange hostel in Galicia had a two-section vending machine: snacks and drinks in the top half; condoms, lube and sex toys in the lower* half.
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* I nearly said 'bottom' half. Fnaar fnaar...
Years ago, a friend posted a photo of a gold bar vending machine in a hotel lobby in Dubai. For all those moments when you suddenly find yourself short of a huge bar of gold and your safety deposit vault is closed.
The Beaufort farmers' co-op shop in Aime in the Tarantaise valley has a 24/7 Beaufort cheese vending machine outside for those unforeseen Beaufort-less situations outside core working hours. That I can understand.
There are some odd ones in stations in France. Glasses and cosmetics for example.
I don't think there are anymore kids in Spain, Pistonbroke, it's just that they are outside playing or walking instead of buried deep in an SUV with a video game.
Pencil and paper sets on the Metro system in Milan at the weekend. I can't imagine that many people get such sudden urges to make notes.
I can't remember the airport, but we've been to one with a gold vending machine. Seemed a bit strange.
At uni we had a Pot Noodle vending machine.
This machine in Villa San Giovanni, Italy, sells a range of condoms and related items.
A machine in a motorway toilet in Germany sold a "Travel Vagina". Did think about getting one just to see what it was but I had my mum with me and didn't fancy a conversation beginning with "What's that you've got there?"
Should you forget to buy your Beaufort at the Bourg coop vending machine, you can be rest assured that there's also one at Moutiers Railway Station!
Not to be upstaged by the mountain folk, you can get oysters from vending machines all along the coastal seafood producing parts of France too.
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Used pants. Not kidding! #japan
This. 🙁
I've been on building sites with PPE vending machines with hard hats, hi viz, glasses and gloves available to purchase in the event that people forget to bring their own.
been on rigs with task specific Glove vending machines
Not especially strange but I was very impressed with the baguette and croissant vending machines in tiny villages in rural France. Fresh every day as far as I could tell. The vineyards with wine petrol pumps are quite good too.
Used pants. Not kidding! #japan
i did wonder what they were doing with my old ones
Inner tube in Austria.
Birdtable in Belgium.
When I was at uni I had literally no money in my final year and I went to spend my last quid on a can of full fat pepsi to give me a little energy boost to get the last bit of my dissertation done.
Put the money in, can comes out, open it up...there's a ****ing watch inside it and no drink. There was no promotion on the outside of the can, or on the machine, it looked completely normal.
I was doing an IT project for the Spanish part of a British Bank*, and they had vending machines with beer in the office. There was at least one (Spanish) guy who'd get one out first thing in the morning, then another, etc. etc. all day.
* nameless but rhymes with "starkly".
Cheap Korean Motel, me and the ex managed to find after arriving in Busan rather late in the day, went out to get a coke from a vending machine I saw up the hallway on the way to the room.
No drinks, just lube, condoms and sex toys, it was a love hotel which kind of explained the receptionists behavior when trying to check in.
Used pants. Not kidding! #japan
Been to Japan many many times, seen all sorts in vending machines but never saw any like this, always presumed it was one of those apocryphal things that appeared in Clive James travel programs but never existing, in Akihabara I guess?
All kinds of odd stuff in Tokyo - walking along the streets and there's row upon row of vending machines.
prosecco glass and prosecco in northern italy
Pizza (actual fresh proper pizza) vending machine near my sisters house in the Pyrenees. Also trunks at French swimming pools.
At technical college we had a fresh chips vending machine. They kind of extruded out of the bottom of a heated aluminium plate into a big paper cup. I assume it was filled with something akin to Smash as the raw ingredient.
They were very thin and not particularly nice.
we had a Pot Noodle vending machine.
Was it the deluxe model with the complementary boiling water so that you could make your pot noodle on the spot?
Pulled into a petrol station down in Cornwall to see a maggot vending machine for fishing bait.
Maggots for fishing on the Norfolk Broads
I've heard it said that the pants in the Japanese vendings are sprayed with a very weak ammonia and have never been near a person
Spicy Nik-Naks
An inflatable vagina from a pub toilet vending machine in Fort William
A few in this locality (which has gone from being punky to touristy)
Syringes (yes, that type).
Organic eggs.
Bike inner tubes (everywhere).
Contact lenses.
Toothbrushes (in a bar).
And disco tunes (courtesy of a re-purposed phone booth, complete with lights and mirror ball).
Used pants. Not kidding! #SouthKorea
Mates wind up, and I got into trouble as they'd packed them into a pair of shoes in my suitcase too...
Gitz,,
Used pants. Not kidding! #japan
Saw them on the subway (also in vending machine) bought some (didn't fit though)
Theres some weird shit in Japan, used schoolgirl pants (what the box said) wasn't that high up on the weird list TBH
Cheese, milk and other dairy products in Slovenia. They didn't look very appetising in the heart of summer.
I’ve been on building sites with PPE vending machines with hard hats, hi viz, glasses and gloves available to purchase in the event that people forget to bring their own.
Every site I've been on has has something akin to the lost property box in the PE changing rooms!
At work Dan the tampon man tried to sell me an inflatable sheep vending machine for the gents loos.
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USB C to HDMI adapter.... Japan recently.
I love their vending machines.
Beaten to it on the Beaufort cheese machine, although I bought mine from the shop
Saw a report on the beeb once about a gold top unpasteurized milk dispenser. Think it was on a camp site, and for 50p people would wander over with their bowl of Frosties and pour the milk straight on.
Many years ago, there was a vending machine selling a variety of worms/bait outside a newsagent in Finsbury Park. Always felt that was a bit random.
There used to be a maggot vending machine at our local petrol station. Guess they are fairly common then, in areas where fishing is popular.
The 7/11 At the bottom of my road in Singapore the was a mashed potato vending machine.
Trays of eggs at Oakham station
Our bike storage at work has a bike stuff vending machine with tubes, lights, pumps etc in it. Some bits are cheaper than the bike shops too.
The travel pussy in German vending machines is rubbish.... You can achieve a similar effect with a half inflated balloon and some hand cream. Single use, too!
On the A5, just north of Towcester , is Jack Hill Cafe. Essentially, it is a transport cafe, but also a meeting place for bikers etc, because of it's cheap and substantial breakfasts. And it's great customer service (okay, that was lie).
It is also an overnight lorry park.
In the vending machine, in the men's toilets, it used to sell battery powered vibrators.
Why does anyone suddenly need a battery powered vibrator?
This has been in Le Chable just down from Verbier for as long as I can remember
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Lived in a very small Belgium village for a while. They had a vending machine that sold warm bread. Actually super useful!
Not the weirdest but nicest was a can of hot lemon tea from a machine in Japan, I expected it to be cold.
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Should you forget to buy your Beaufort at the Bourg coop vending machine, you can be rest assured that there’s also one at Moutiers Railway Station!
Having stayed in Moutiers for a week in July I can confirm that this is the most interesting fact and attractive feature of said town - what a dump. (Great riding available nearby however).
For me one of the tech floors in our office tower block has a tech vending machine where you can get a new mouse, keyboard, RAM etc.
Saw a report on the beeb once about a gold top unpasteurized milk dispenser. Think it was on a camp site, and for 50p people would wander over with their bowl of Frosties and pour the milk straight on.
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Inner tubes at the road side in france.
Trufax - I've never once met a French person that I didn't like.
You can achieve a similar effect with a half inflated balloon and some hand cream. Single use, too!
Pretty much described pulling in a nightclub in semi rural north Essex, during the early 1990s there.
Why does anyone suddenly need a battery powered vibrator?
Because a steam turbine could scald people?
Saw a report on the beeb once about a gold top unpasteurized milk dispenser.
They're pretty common in the UK. Often found in fields going "moo."
Also, that's green top. Gold top is extra-creamy Channel Islands milk IIRC.
Local working men's club has a vending machine in the lavatory- condom's, herbal Viagra and cock rings. Dorothy is in for some old night!
So how come vending machines are so limited in the UK and haven't taken off selling a wider range of goods?
Hong Kong back in the day - everything from sex toys to Tiffany & Co bling.
They were piloting 'mini library' ones at one point too.
Not quite the strangest, given the impressive competition, but I've noticed many vending machines in Newcastle city centre that sell "emergency shoes" for women that have come out in ridiculous heels that they can't walk in after one Prosecco too many.
Better than the alternative I guess...
A little background info about maggot vending machines.
Cheese toastie machine in a nightclub in wait for it Inverness!
Didn't part with my cash, but I recall a vibrator vending machine in a nightclub toilet in Leamington Spa circa 1998.
We’re between two 24hr raw milk vending machines here in the south lakes. One also sells glass bottles. Keep meaning to get some to make paneer with as I imagine it would be delicious