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[–] [email protected] 52 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (8 children)

Can't believe noone has mentioned the hot beverage vending machines.

Its so fucking nice to spend $1-$1.50 and just get some hot tea or coffee right there without issue. And they're everywhere so you can pretty much rely on them.

So much more convenient than having to go to a coffee shop so you can pay $5 for the same thing, and the vending machine version still tastes great.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This comment made me remember that the tech school in my (US) hometown of ~4000 people had a machine like this roughly 20 years ago and I've never seen another one since.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

My college had a french fry vending machine. That was pretty awesome.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

They also have much more popularized versions of canned coffee than us; I occasionally see bad overpriced Starbucks coffee bottles in grocery store checkouts, but not something small, quick, and convenient like BOSS.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I had one at my old workplace and it certainly served me better coffee than the mud I could get from the mcdonalds across the road.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (5 children)

It's likely not as cool as Japanese vending coffee, but in the UK there are Starbucks/Costa etc vending machines all over. Do Americans (sorry assuming you are from US) not have those?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Have used a couple of hot coffee vending machines in the US and all of them were absolute garbage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

The Tick: Armless bandit... Empty your bladder of that bitter black urine men call coffee! It has its price and its price has been paid!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I don't mind vending machine cappuccino but that's only like half credit as coffee lol

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

the ones at racetrac are pretty great imo. i get the lightest roast they have (more caffeine) and dump a bunch of sugar and cream into it but it's pretty good black, too

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

But are those like a hot coffee dispenser, where you grab a cup and put it under a spout, push a button and it pours out a hot drink? Because we do have those in Australia.

But in Japan they have vending machines for canned drinks and cans of soup that are heated.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Australia here, nothing similar here.

But this is like basically every street has a set of these vending machines. They're everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

As someone from the west coast of The States, I can't say I've ever seen a hot drink vending machine in real life. At least not here where I live.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

As someone from the west coast of The States, I can’t say I’ve ever seen a hot drink vending machine in real life. At least not here where I live.

We used to have them, but I haven't seen them for over a decade now.

If you remember the Terminator 2 movie, the scene where a security guard gets a cup of coffee, those are the kind of dispensers that used to exist.

(The link above shows the scene I'm speaking of. I tried to embed the URL into this comment so the picture itself would display, but I couldn't figure it out.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Also from the US west, I've seen a bunch of hot vending machines! In several hospitals and schools in different states, a few gas stations. They will have coffee, tea or cocoa selections, a cup pops out and gets filled with fresh brewed coffee. They were usually around 1.50 to 2 dollars a cup, maybe more expensive now though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Ditto. Also rest stops.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

No, not that I've seen except for at highway rest stops. They have automated coffee vending machines that sells some brown nasty tasting water. Definitely not coffee

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Can you get sugar or cream or do you have to drink the coffee black?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

You have a variety of options usually. Different brands, and then ones that have no milk, ones that are milky etc.

You also usually have the choice of having things cold or hot as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I've seen these around in the US, but they seem to be getting rarer for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I used to see these more often in Canada but now they're pretty unusual. Not heated cans like some Japanese machines, just cups of coffee and sometimes lattes and shit.

Now you're forced to pay $3+ for muddy garbage at Tim's/McDonalds and you have to wait in line to get it too. Alternatively drop $7+ at Starbucks for ok coffee? I can make better tasting coffee with a drip machine, let alone my French press.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 11 months ago

I'd steal from them