New Vending Machines! Now with Food!

On Friday we were graced with the prospects of new vendibles. New vending machines were installed, but were still empty. Today they were filled with most of our favorite treats. The Soda machine is larger, but contains the same variety as before. The Chip/Candy machine is smaller, but appears like he can cram more stuff in it. The important part is the addition of refrigerated swivel food machine. It includes such tasty things like milk, juice and grilled cheese sandwiches.

Apparently one employee put in money but was unable to get change. I was witness as another hapless fellow put $1 into the soda machine, and was given change, but no soda. He continued to put another $0.60 into the machine and was still not given a soda. His attempt at the Chip machine was a success.

I tempted the fates with the Chip machine and got some Jalapeño Chips. They are no flavor twists, but it's something different.

Flavor Twists No More?

I didn't have time to post about the return of our glorious Flavor Twists. I was to busy eating them at every turn. Unfortunately, our current vending machine vendor will no longer be supplying us with food-stuffs. We may never see them again.

Where For Art My Flavor Twists?

We had the best snack ever in our vending machine. Fritos Flavor Twists in Honey BBQ. When they were first introduced for 50 cents it was a perfect combination of price, flavor and filler for that addition to my usual lunch.

Then they jacked the prices up to 60 cents. I knew I had to take a stand and boycott until they lowered the price back to 50 cents. At 60 cents they still sold like hot-cakes, and once they sold out the replaced them with some crappy Sour Cream Lays or some crap.

Bring back my Flavor Twists! I'll gladly pay 75 cents for them now!

Your Nuts if You Pay for Beer Nuts!

So today I took a giant leap of faith and bought some "Beer Nuts" from the vending machine. I'm not sure where it ranks on the list of bad choices, but it is absolutely at the bottom of my list of prepackaged nuts available in our vending machine. Right above... well, OK so they are the only prepackaged nuts available in our vending machine last time I checked.

So I don't know if I've ever had proper "Beer Nuts" before but I have had peanuts at bars before and maybe it was just the highly toxic levels of alcohol in my blood but they always seemed to have a flavor.. at least a little. I mean I guess that "Beer Nuts" do have some flavor, but it isn't a desirable flavor. Even just nuts right out of the shell unsalted have a flavor that is better.

"Beer Nuts" are labeled as having a "Sweet & Salty" taste, but I was unable to taste the sweet.. just a very light salt, and the dry husk like thing surrounding the nut. So in the name of science, I put one in my mouth and sucked on it to see if it would change the flavor. Luckily I got to taste sweet for 1 second, and then the sweet was all gone and I was left with the dry husk and the odd lack of taste that I have come to associate with bitter.

In High School anatomy class, when we were doing that thing where you put odd chemicals on your tongue to find the areas on your tongue where certain taste receptors are more heavily concentrated my partner and I both thought our bitter chemical was broken, but it turns out we were just both genetic abnormalities.

Please don't try to poison me with a poison that is bitter.

Please note, Beer Nuts are not Cracker Nuts, as Cracker Nuts have a taste, and it is not awful.

New Chips in the New Vending Machine!

Do you like BBQ? Are you a vegetarian, and allergic to Gluten? Do you prefer to have chip flavor dust covering your fingers instead of flavored sauce substances? Are you only limited to the food options in our vending machine?

If you answered all of the above questions in the affirmative then do I have the perfect snack for you! Doritos Smokin' Cheddar BBQ chips. They taste just like every other Dorito you have ever eaten in your life, but this time it is cover with a dehydrated BBQ sauce and Taco Dip Mixture. Are you salivating yet?

Having eaten half of the bag I noticed that I was drinking a little more water than usual to try to wash down the partially awful flavor. So that's a plus, it encourages you to stay hydrated.

Our new vending machines vend chips the same as our old vending machine, but it is more difficult to lift up the door to get your vended product.

Quaker Honey Graham Snack Mix

Today I tried a new snack called Quaker Honey Graham Snack Mix. Overall I would give this snack a B. It was decent, but did not taste like real Graham Crackers. Mostly it tasted like sugar and graham cracker flavoring. The good part of this snack was the variety of pieces that were flavored like graham crackers. It was mostly bits of Quaker cereals and snack pieces that I could identify. I even got 2 pieces of caramel corn in my bag.

Nutrition Info

Click the link above to get the nutrition information if you care. I don't.