A few years ago, when I was finishing up my degree in college. It was evening school, so I had a few dinners that were soda (usually cherry coke) and some random salty or sweet snack. I had a nutty buddy for the first time since childhood. Tasted like nostalgia.

I ordered some reeses pieces from the vending machine at the laundromat. It just took my money though.

A kit Kat at the car wash just three days ago. Before that it might be 5 years.

About a year ago at an airport. Coffee. Was cheaper than the cafe.

Two weeks ago at work during my break. I ate an apple that I had brought but wanted something salty, so I bought a bag of Sun Chips. Usually I’ll buy a bigger bag of chips at the grocery store and keep it in my work locker, but I didn’t have any that day.

Three weeks ago I bought some freshly baked pizza from a vending machine. It was quite ok.

Last thing I purchased from a vending machine was a LC to LC SMOF cable because the one i had was too short.

This was at a datacenter where you could buy small nick backs like cables and cagenuts in the break room.

Grabbed a Pepsi Max from the vending machine at the local library.

My last job. They had decent stuff when it was stocked. eg. Iced coffee, smoked almonds, jerky, juice

It was a lot more cenvenient than going to the canteen especially in the winter. And I made enough money that it didnt really matter if it was sold at a premium or not.

Now im more worried about all of that stuff being rather unhealthy.

Many many years ago.

But I’m planning to go to Japan and Im hoping to find a lucky vending machine that breaks that cycle

Vending machines over here usually only stock junk food, unfortunately.

I occasionally get chocolate bars or cookies from them when I’m on break and not in the mood to enter a supermarket.

I pretty much never use them in my home country, but I will raid them whenever I’m on holiday somewhere—gotta experience the local snacks and soft drinks

Last thing I bought was a citrus and mint sprite in Morocco (it was great)