/ck/ - Food & Cooking

In 1984, attending college in Violette Hall (the math department), there was a drop cup vending machine that sold a cup of soda for 15 cents (can dispensing machines sold for a quarter). It would drop the cup, then dispense the ice and the soda. It was crushed ice. Not ice cubes or ice pellets, but 1970's style crushed ice. I guess you had to be then to appreciate it.

It was late fall and decided to buy a soda from the machine. I pushed the button, quickly moved my hands to be near the cup dispenser just in case I needed to be ready for an emergency (you know what I mean), but everything was fine. When I stood up, I noticed a little light was lit on the machine. Was it lit before? It said something like, "you won a free soda." I'd never noticed it before. Was it true? Did it actually mean I'd won something? Sure enough, when I pushed the dispensing button again, I got another cup of soda! I never win anything, so how cool was that? But now, I had to go to class, and I needed two hands free to carry my two cups, haha! Ah, good times, good memories.

Do you have any nice memories of vending machines, or the products inside them, or funny stories?