my work boredom is such that, were i to encounter this automaton of horror right now, i would totally hit it up for a plain cheese emergency-raft-shaped pizza.

So what? This thing heats up frozen pizza for you.

Probably better than some of the delivery I get.

They have one of these in the local hospital's cafeteria.

I like it! Well, not really..lactose intolerance sort of limits my pizza eating, but still though...a vending machine that dispenses pizza.
Wonder how much they are...and where

Apocolypse never tasted so cheesy.

I'd like to see a chicken-wing vending machine, complete with an internal deep fryer and everything.

My college had a "Ori-da" french fry vending machine. During my first summer there, my classmates and I would spend our breaks hanging out around/looking at the machine which was always out of service. One day the machine WAS in service. We gathered around it like the apes in 2001. I bought a "cup-o-fries", and we all had some. They were thinner fries, which usually cuts down the taste, but they weren't that bad. After that day, we ignored the machine, and sat on the opposite side of the atrium. Shortly thereafter, the machine broke again, and when I came back the next summer, was gone.

Damn it. They stole my idea. How did they get that out of my brain?

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.

I'd be fearful of putting my coin into such a beast, lest I be granted some obtuse wish to be young again ... ala Tom Hanks in "Big."

@hellinmyeyes: Houston area.

@claudrophenia: Took the words right out of my would be cheese pizza filled mouth

@Michael Belisle: I'm assuming your proposed machine would also dispense Grape Drank?

I've seen vending machines for ice creme, french fires, coffee, cigarettes, cold meals, etc. This isn't new.

Also

[www.wonderpizzausa.com]

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

@Michael Belisle: Well we're almost there. Here's a flickr image of a Tyson machine
[www.flickr.com]

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. :(

HOLY SHIT THAT IS AWESOME!! I may just drive 4 hours to Houston just to get one and eat it. And then say I got sick from vending machine pizza.

SWEET!

TombStone... Hmmm.

@Git Em SteveDave is starlost: Please do tell... how did this mythical fry machine work? Could it have handled deep-fried chicken wings?

I should hate this.
But wow...just wow...this looks amazing :)

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?

If these were on my city's streets, there would be lines ten people deep in front of them every Saturday night after last call.

And I would be among those queued, because at that point it would sound like the most awesome thing in the history of ever.

hopefully you can hack this machine!!!!

@wattznext: Card swiping in this case means a soda machine that can read my CC...NOT a soda machine that will steal my CC...THAT would be a sign of the apocalypse!

@Michael Belisle: Wow!

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]

@Michael Belisle: Arrrg... "htm" needs an "l": [www.patatachef.com]

So, a dinner and a movie date by going to a Tombstone Pizza vending machine and a Redbox or Best Buy vending machine: trashy or trachiq?

There's a kosher vending machine at the ballpark. You can get knishes, pizza, onion rings, or a veggie 'patty'.

I thought the photo was a Photoshop parody from Fark or Worth 1000.

@wattznext: They exist. I saw a Coke branded one at the local Bingo Hall.

I could go for a pizza right now. Then I remember I live in Atlanta and they don't have pizza here yet. I further remember that I am not going to be home until Christmas and I get further depressed that it will be months before I get to have pizza.

Yes, they have "pizza like substance" here, but it isn't pizza.

@Git Em SteveDave is starlost:

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.

So does it spit it out already cooked? If so, I want one on my campus.

@Michael Belisle: I do not know. This was way back in 1997. I'm guessing it stored them, then cooked them. They weren't anything to write home about, but the were enough to blog about.

You know, a steak vending machine might be a good idea. Maybe with grilled onions, a baked 'tater, mushrooms, and a hot fudge sundae.

Too bad the automats are gone (I think).

If this is a harbinger of the apocalypse, I welcome it. What's the problem? How much is a pizza? More than $2 would be very disappointing... but not horrifying.

@Git Em SteveDave is starlost: No problem, Google told me the answer: the Ore-Ida model used a convection oven. I'm far more impressed by the fully-automated, self-contained frying machine.

This is so much more appetizing than those roundabout vending machine that has apples, yogurt, sad looking sandwiches (almost typed sadwiches, which I think would work), dinty moore beef stew and other lunch items... They also served pizza, but not warmed up for you. It's sad that that machine makes me want chewy pizza.

I don't see any problems here!
They were even nice enough to put a Red Bull machine next to it so you could get a refreshing beverage. Now, where is the Jager machine?

@MyPetFly: It's not Horn & Hardarts, but there's one in the East Village:
[www.bamnfood.com]

People who eat healthy take it to such moral extremes nowadays. Criticizing this machine and its food is no less asinine than the Victorians criticizing exposed table legs back in the 1800s. Times change, but there will always be controlling dogmatists inflicting their narrow view of what's right and wrong on the rest of the world.

Finally a vending machine that takes stoners seriously...

@MercuryPDX:

Wow! Did you notice the mac and cheese thing? The last item, I swear I thought it said "disposable chicken nuggets" at first.

@MyPetFly: Nah, automats are still around in some places. The Amsterdam central station still has some small ones for hot greasy food that probably really shouldn't be eaten but tastes way too good!

@GMFish:

"...Victorians criticizing exposed table legs..."

I can see where they were coming from. It's a bit risque if you ask me. ; )

@HFC: I'd be surprised if it was less than $5 (particularly in airport locations)

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?

@wattznext: There is a snack machine here at work that takes debit/credit cards, actually, and I've seen them elsewhere. They work fine.

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.

@MyPetFly: Yes. It's a Mac and Cheese Croquette. Last place I saw those was in a TGIF Commercial. There's a few different recipes online:

[southernfood.about.com]

[www.grouprecipes.com]

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.