Doomsday prognostications aside, at least people who like Pizza Hut now have something to look down on.
The End Is Near [She Eats via Buzzfeed]
]]>@pirate_eggie: Reminds me of Chili's and the new "BIG MOUTH BURGER!" That movie (Idiocracy) was pretty horrible, but the concept behind it was terrifyingly true to life.
]]>Found this on another forum. Apparently they are the ones that make the machines.
I guess these are popular at military bases.
]]>@Ajh:
Oh, okay, like a convection oven? That's not too bad. If I see one I might try it.
]]>@Michael Belisle: They make frozen french fry vending machines that fry the potatoes on the spot. Wouldn't be too big of a stretch to make a chicken wing vending machine.
]]>Maybe they're made to be broken?
]]>When I was in college you could get hot little cans of Chef Boy R Dee pasta with pull tab tops. I actually bought a can of mini ravioli once. I think it dispensed with a plastic spork, but I can't remember exactly.
So this machine rates much lower on the "ewwww!" scale for me.
Of course, I could be wrong about the Dragoncard part, but I'm fairly certain they do/did.
]]>Why would college kids love this? When i went to college dominos delivered all through the night to campus.
]]>I think this would actually work well in our plant's lunchroom. Employee's don't have to leave work but it gives them more options if they didn't pack anything to eat. Not something to eat all the time but useful in some places...I can see it working well in airports, especially if you have a late flight or a long delay.
]]>Didn't see the brat vending machine at the National Zoo, though.
]]>I think I have a new dream now.
]]>I'm not a huge fan of tombstone though.
]]> I'm not down with soggy pizza from a microwave....
The machine was on it's last legs in the late 80's/early 90's - was incredibly well used, and was supposedly there since the 70's. Surprisingly, this is one of my earliest childhood memories... I don't remember playing hockey at the age of 4, but I remember watching the fry machine when I was too young to play.
]]>...something positive to think about. Maybe I missed this, but if it warm when it comes out of the machine? is it frozen in the box?
]]>Much to my shagrin since I could at least stay out of trouble if I wasted time on Wired.
]]>THat is actually kind of gross. Someone has to handle the pizzas, etc., as they're put into the machines...and how long are they there for? Thank goodness my job has a microwave.
]]>Just don't think you can stick your arm up the door and finagle a free pie like the glass-front snapple/sobe machines
]]>"Your account balance is zero. Please come back when you have money. Tombstone doesn't want any child to go hungry. You are an unfit mother. Your children will be put into the custody of Tombstone."
]]>Mmmm, I love Tombstone pizza, but I wouldn't want one out of a machine. There's no way to put it back in if it doesn't get cooked all the way. And microwaving pizza sucks. When I have leftovers, I use the toaster oven.
]]>Old Forge Style FTW!
]]>@deadspork: You are very correct. Rice vending machine...yay...
]]>@bilge: You can get ANYTHING out of a vending machine in Japan.
ANYTHING.
]]>And I did see a few brats bugging their parents to get them one.
]]>And I would get a pizza from one if I saw one in the wilds!
]]>Big deal.
In Japan, you can get almost anything out of a vending machine - from women's panties, to ramen soup, to beer.
]]>I love this vending machine. I wish we had one at work. Sometimes I don't bring my lunch, thinking I'll go out and get something, but then the weather is bad or I'm busy and I don't want to leave. A pizza vending machine would be PERFECT, and much better than a skimpy bag of chips or the dreaded Extra Large Honey Bun for lunch.
]]>SunDelica's auto-fishmonger hawks frozen tuna, eel, shrimp, scallop, and salmon sushi. Pop the platter into a microwave and voilà - instant dinner. Don't forget to pick up an Asahi Super Dry on the way home.]]>
It makes me sad when parts of Idiocracy start to come true...
]]>Does it refuse to vend from sundown on Friday through sundown on Saturday??? :^)
]]>Marketing is a funny thing: although "Tombstone" probably ranks right up there with "stupid names you should not put on a food product" it certainly is memorable.
]]>I haven't eaten a Tombstone pizza in a while, and I do hit the Pizza Hut buffet about once a week or so, so I may be an outlier on this, but I wouldn't mind this option. Frozen pizza might suck, but it sucks less than some other options.
Hopefully the serving you get has under 1000 calories ...
]]>@Troy F.: What if I had one of these machines in my home? So long pizza man!
Please tell me this has a little convection oven inside it... nothing to me is less palatable than microwaved pizza. Except maybe excrement. And even then, microwaved excrement would still somehow taste worse.
]]>I just made homemade mac and cheese (for the first time) this weekend. I'll have to try the croquets. A little extra fat in my diet won't hurt. ;)
"it'll make a turd."
My new mantra. Thank you!
]]>Anyone else remember the commercials? "What would you like on your tombstone?"
I don't get what's wrong with this machine, it beats the pizza hut/taco bell pizzas. I'd eat it.
]]>I think it's bad ass! I don't see why there is any reason to bitch about this. If your elitist taste buds are too good for tombstone, than don't buy one. Personally I'll eat totinos, cuz lets face it, I have no shame. To quote the not so famous words of my Dad, "it'll make a turd.". Food is only an obstacle to me. The quicker and easier I can get my hunger out of the way, the more time I have to do something else.
]]>I'm waiting for the cobb salad vending machine.
]]>Does anyone know how much the pizza costs? I think it a great concept. You know that you are just getting a nuked frozen pizza, so you can't complain if the quality isn't fantastic.
]]>The problem with people freaking out and calling it a sign of the apocalypse is that these people seem to think that people would simply give up on all other food and just start going to a vending machine to get a pizza.
Until the pizza man stops delivering, that's not gonna happen. Lazy beats Vending Machine any day of the week.
]]>@wattznext: There is a snack machine here at work that takes debit/credit cards, actually, and I've seen them elsewhere. They work fine.
]]>I do love that while the article takes a dig @ Pizza Hut (perhaps a well deserved one, I wouldn't know) the ad column on the left has a Domino's link at the very top. Domino's is pizza? I tried it once and I honestly don't understand how they could become such a huge corporation, are there really that many wasted college students in North America?
]]>"...Victorians criticizing exposed table legs..."
I can see where they were coming from. It's a bit risque if you ask me. ; )
]]>Wow! Did you notice the mac and cheese thing? The last item, I swear I thought it said "disposable chicken nuggets" at first.
]]>Finally a vending machine that takes stoners seriously...
]]>Too bad the automats are gone (I think).
]]>So does it spit it out already cooked? If so, I want one on my campus.
]]>Hmm, I see, after reading the "about" page. This looks like a very airport-esque thing, kind of like when I discovered the ipod vending machines, etc.
]]>Yes, they have "pizza like substance" here, but it isn't pizza.
]]>The potatoes are fried on the spot, and a tray is provided to collect your portion. Also, the salt and ketchup, if wished, are dispensed automatically. [www.patatachef.com]]]>
hopefully you can hack this machine!!!!
]]>And I would be among those queued, because at that point it would sound like the most awesome thing in the history of ever.
]]>BTW, the other day i was thinking about that old commercial (i think it was visa) that ran during the Super Bowl 10 years or more ago.
It featured a guy who kept getting his dollar rejected by a vending machine, only to realize the vending machine had a CC slot in it. the tag line was something about how the future is now I think it was shot in a big field/desert...anyone remember this commercial?
More importantly, where are our card swiping soda machines?
SWEET!
]]>I'd try it. Once.
Maybe more if it tasted gooooooood
I remember once pizza hut was selling these long frenchbread type pizzas at the local theater (I guess it was a test run thing).... and it was soooooo goooooood, but they stopped it. :(
]]>I think I have seen it in the Salt Lake City Airport near the baggage claim.
I wanted to use it just to see how bad it was, but it was broken.
Adam
]]>Also
]]>Seriously I thought of a variation of this machine in college. Mine made personal pizzas and hot pockets. Those late nights (this thing is due in the morning and I put it off for 3 months) would have been greatly improved.
]]>Apocolypse never tasted so cheesy.
]]>So what? This thing heats up frozen pizza for you.
Probably better than some of the delivery I get.
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