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Hot, canned food vending machines anymore?; Hot food dispensed from cans
Topic Started: Dec 26 2017, 03:24 PM (431 Views)
BillHoo
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I remember in college, in the comp sci / engineering building they used to have a hot canned food vending machine in the break area. I think it was $1.50 to get a can of ravioli that had been heated up and ready to eat. Other items included spaghetti and meatballs, chicken and dumpling, and soup.

I haven't seen those anywhere since.

Maybe because microwave ovens are cheap enough and easy toreplace if they get vandalized.

Anyone seen these kinds of vending machines? Are they still around?
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Japan is one country that takes food vending very seriously .

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Yea, I had my first Nestle Coffee in a can when I was in Hokkaido for Operation Orient Shield 87.

It was a freezing day, and I was at some kind of eiffel tower type structure and there were vending machines at the bottom floor. Piping hot can of coffee with milk and sugar!

I just wonder if such things would catch on here in the states?
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suzukitom
Dec 26 2017, 03:43 PM
Japan is one country that takes food vending very seriously .


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BillHoo
Dec 26 2017, 04:16 PM


I just wonder if such things would catch on here in the states?


On occasion, I do get a yen for a nice hotdog, just not 450 of them. Frankly, I'll go to ball parks, if I want to spend that much on, ground-up-pig-lips-in-a-bun.

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BillHoo
Dec 26 2017, 04:16 PM
Yea, I had my first Nestle Coffee in a can when I was in Hokkaido for Operation Orient Shield 87.

It was a freezing day, and I was at some kind of eiffel tower type structure and there were vending machines at the bottom floor. Piping hot can of coffee with milk and sugar!

I just wonder if such things would catch on here in the states?
Whenever I go to World Market I get one of these, but they come cold. It's Japanese canned coffee, and it tastes pretty good. What amazes me the most about it is the can it comes in. Looks like an ordinary aluminum can, right?

Try to crush it. Just try.

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In the same vein, does anyone else remember Banquet Boil-in-Bags. You know a slice of meatloaf in gravy, or a chicken parmesan patty in tomato sauce, or creamed chipped beef. Each came frozen in a plastic bag that you dropped in a pot of boiling water to cook. I seem to remember they cost about 50 cents. I suppose that after microwaves became common it was too much trouble to boil a pot of water.
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Dec 27 2017, 09:39 PM
In the same vein, does anyone else remember Banquet Boil-in-Bags. You know a slice of meatloaf in gravy, or a chicken parmesan patty in tomato sauce, or creamed chipped beef. Each came frozen in a plastic bag that you dropped in a pot of boiling water to cook. I seem to remember they cost about 50 cents. I suppose that after microwaves became common it was too much trouble to boil a pot of water.
Very much so. As a poor kid growing up in the '70's on welfare, my mother had to stretch every dollar she could. Many a night my mother fed those very entrées to my siblings and me. Truthfully, I had completely forgotten about them, until you just brought it up.

Of course, just as with anyone who has ever served, we, my siblings and I, always referred to the creamed chip as, "S-on-the-S".
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Oh sure, it resembles frozen vomit, now, but, boil it a pan a water and dump it out over a piece of toast and, you got yourself something that will stave off starvation until mom's can thow down wit some'a dis, t'morr night.

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Dec 27 2017, 01:32 AM
BillHoo
Dec 26 2017, 04:16 PM
Yea, I had my first Nestle Coffee in a can when I was in Hokkaido for Operation Orient Shield 87.

It was a freezing day, and I was at some kind of eiffel tower type structure and there were vending machines at the bottom floor. Piping hot can of coffee with milk and sugar!

I just wonder if such things would catch on here in the states?
Whenever I go to World Market I get one of these, but they come cold. It's Japanese canned coffee, and it tastes pretty good. What amazes me the most about it is the can it comes in. Looks like an ordinary aluminum can, right?

Try to crush it. Just try.

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I just had a "Mr. Brown's" canned coffee this morning. I get them at the Asian groceries for about 89 cents. Good to keep in the car for when I don't have time to stop at a convenience store.

I do like the idea of having hot, ready to eat food popping out of a vending machine.
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Has anyone ever had or used a desktop coffee mug warmer? I think they were big in the 90s. You either plugged it into a wall socket or USB port on the computer and set your mug on top and it was supposed to keep the coffee warm.

How warm did it get? Would I be able to set a pop-top can of spaghetti on it in the morning and have a fully warmed can by lunch?

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Dec 28 2017, 10:47 AM
Has anyone ever had or used a desktop coffee mug warmer? I think they were big in the 90s. You either plugged it into a wall socket or USB port on the computer and set your mug on top and it was supposed to keep the coffee warm.

How warm did it get? Would I be able to set a pop-top can of spaghetti on it in the morning and have a fully warmed can by lunch?

I had two of them. I recently gave one away. They do okay, for keeping a ceramic mugful of coffee warm enough to slowy sip on over a long period of time, but they're not adequate for trying to heat up something that's stone cold, like a can of spaghetti, with. For that, I would reccomend a can of Sterno, or a miniature white gas camping stove.
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Canned spaghetti rates lower than boil in a bag any day!!
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Dec 28 2017, 01:07 PM
Canned spaghetti rates lower than boil in a bag any day!!
Not if it's Chef Boilardee. I frickin loved this crap, when I was a kid.

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People knock it. But Chef Boyardee was credited with bringing Italian food to mainstream America.

Til then Italian culture had been derided. ie. Mr. Potter (from It's a Wonderful Life): George...you don't want to be nursemaid to a bunch of GARLIC EATERS!

Boyardee was working in four star restaurants at the age of 9. He came to America and became Chef to Woodrow Wilson in the White House.

Legend is he got together for dinner with businessmen and truckers and they formulated his jarred spaghetti dinner kit. Each bag had dried spaghetti and a jar of sauce with instructions for cooking. They spread to small groceries across America and the rest is history.

I recently bought his (grand?)daughter's cookbook of family recipes.

People who claim to know Italian food turn their noses on Chef Boyardee, but his style of cooking is authentic to a specific region of Italy.
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