Strangest item purchased from a vending machine?

[Yit]

Worms? Ya kiddin' me?

[Bok_Tukalo]

1. That's considered strange?

<ope>

[Yit]

2. I've never seen it.

:shrug:

[RandomKoolzip]

3. I bought a towel from a vending machine at a car wash.

[oregonjen]

4. Beer from a vending machine in Japan

[BOSSHOG]

6. We had beer machines in Navy Barracks in the early 70's

Volatile mix. Young Sailors and cheap beer.

What do you do with a drunken Sailor?

[oregonjen]

8. I suppose those aren't there anymore!

My host father used to pay allowance money to his YOUNG kids to go out and buy him beer. My host brother was only 9 at the time!

[BOSSHOG]

9. In an effort to "deglamorize" alcohol use

the beer machines came out of the barracks and there are no longer Happy Hours at Military Clubs (at least Navy Ones) because it promoted alcohol consumption by service members. One of the results was more Sailors heading off base for liquid libation.

[trof]

20. No more Happy Hours? Aw, man?

I remember nickel beer night and free peanuts, pretzels, and popcorn.
The 2nd Lt.'s buffet.

[BOSSHOG]

24. That's right Trof (At least in Navy Clubs)

The hierarchy went overboard on this social issue as it did/does on most. Today's badboy in the Navy is Hazing. Zero tolerance for it now. I was initiated into the Chief Petty Officer Community in 1989. I was hazed (trained) unmercifully for 10 weeks and loved every minute of it. And my Evals/Fitreps indicate I came out of it alright as do about 99.99% of all those who participate.

[Rick Myers]

10. We had beer machines in the barracks at an Army base

I was assigned to in the mid-70s!!! PBR or Bud for 40 cents a can!!!
I doubt they still do that!!!

[BOSSHOG]

15. Roger that Teammate

Our kids can kill and maim but they can't drink beer in their home away from home. Some of my shipmates got kinda rowdy, but never me, no not me.

[Kellanved]

11. How is that strange?

:shrug:

[oregonjen]

12. Strange in the sense that anyone young or old could buy alcohol

[Kellanved]

14. Where is the difference to tobacco vending machines?

But yeah, beer vending machines are usually inaccessible to minors.

[Burma Jones]

5. I've seen one in Mohegan Lake, NY

The Worm vending machine sits outside a sporting goods store on Route 6

[spinbaby]

7. Beer

But that was in Japan--I'm sure they offer far more unusual things in their vending machines.

Bait doesn't strike me as odd at all because I live in a rural part of the country where every convenience store seems to sell at least nightcrawlers. My favorite sign ever, that I saw years ago in Fairmont WV, said:

Open for Breakfast
Fresh Doughnuts
Nightcrawlers

[Squeech]

16. Japan rocks

I got to go there once. In the pleasure quarters, like in Shinjuku, you could find vending machines that sold porn-- text, photos, or video. Also fresh changes of underwear, presumably for people who'd never made it home the previous night, not just overindulgers in the goods from the previously mentioned machines.

My favorites were the machines that sold Coffee Boss-- canned coffee with milk and sugar. The really useful machines would serve it warm.

[RPM]

18. i hear you can get little girls undies from the machines in Japan...

...soiled.

true?

[GirlinContempt]

21. True

http://www.snopes.com/risque/kinky/panties.htm

[tigereye]

22. yup

great combo... hi Spinbaby!

[Beware the Beast Man]

13. On the turnpike, I've seen shaving kits an the like in vending machines.

The only wierd thing I ever bough was Sea Monkeys.

[tigereye]

23. we had some two years ago

they croaked while we were on vacation. I felt bad.

[Beware the Beast Man]

26. It's glorified fish food.

:)

[trof]

17. Golf balls..."rented", not bought. In Japan.

At a driving range.
Grab a bucket, put it in the cubby hole, stick a hundred yen in the machine, and VIOLA!

[Texasgal]

19. I once bought a pair

of tighty whiteys in Tokyo just because I thought it was amusing!

[Omphaloskepsis]

25. I got French Fries from one..

in Zurich..