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Baguette vending machine in France (lemmy.world)

submitted 20 hours ago by Mrkawfee@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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Seen next to a bakery. Neat.

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[-] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 hours ago

Showed this to my girlfriend, who is French, expecting she'd recoil in horror. But she said "yeah, we have those, it's good for when there isn't a full-time baker around".

According to their website, it can store two types of baguettes (regular and traditional) and two types of pastries (croissants and pains au chocolat)

[-] DannyMac@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 hours ago

If they ever do a marketing campaign, they should have some New Yorkers of Italian descent saying "Need some bread? Hey, baguette about it!"

I'll see myself out.

[-] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 40 points 18 hours ago

Note the scratches where the text is. Imagine the thoughtlessness, the absolute brain smoothosity of the clod who did that on an impulse they were too stupid to even remember.

I was walking behind someone like this once. They stopped for two seconds, and used their lighter to try setting a poster on fire, but, unsuccessful, kept walking.

They live among us. If you call that living.

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 4 points 10 hours ago

The French are famous for protesting

Machines taking over jobs, maybe it was too expensive, maybe kids fukcing around.

Could have been smooth-brained, but someone wasted some time there.

That the same kind of damage i see on my local metro when machines stop working and dont' get fixed for a week.

[-] Bootyhole@lemmus.org 2 points 10 hours ago

Looks like from cleaning

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

There's a part of me that kind of wishes my town had surveillance akin to China's that is effective in preventing this kind of petty crime. I'm jealous of how clean Chinese cities are comparatively.

There's also a part of me that is well aware I sometimes just run red lights on my scooter at 5AM when there are no cars around, or sometimes forget a doggie bag when I'm out walking the pups, and then I'm well aware it would be used against me too and no system is perfect.

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 hours ago

Same fucking problem. Our neighborhood has a string of thefts, (from porch pirates to stolen cars) I'd love to have something centralized and accessible to the whole community to police, but that's what flock is doing and I hate that. And even if we rolled our own, some of those asshole in the neighborhood would be bitching about kids riding bikes on empty sidewalks.

just take us back to pre-technology when we came out of our houses with baseball bats to discourage vandals.

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

No, Flock is very different, as there is no meaningful oversight or regulatory apparatus. (Unless you count lawsuits, which I don't.) That's certainly not the case with China.

Though the baseball bat analogy is attractive.

[-] matelt@feddit.uk 52 points 19 hours ago

In my mum's village they have a pizza vending machine, I tried it for the novelty and I was pleasantly surprised, it was delicious! You could get it cooked or uncooked, it's got some sort of built-in oven in the machine. The guy who makes them restocks every day and rotates the menu every week. There was also a dessert and salad machine next to it so you could get yourself an entire dinner. Also super fresh and bloody good!

[-] daychilde@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

I remember the novelty of a chicken ring vending machine at college 35 years ago. Rings instead of nuggets because more dependable on heating, but you'd pay and it would drop the rings into hot oil for an appropriate 3-4 minutes, then dispense in a cup. They were quite passable, and it was nice to have a hot food option next to the cold sandwiches and like cold burgers/burritoes you could heat in the microwave there.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 7 points 14 hours ago

If you ever worked making pizza, you would understand how easy it would be to automate.

[-] 666dollarfootlong@lemmy.world 20 points 18 hours ago

I had one of those here in Finland, the price to quality was okay (12€), it was better than frozen but not quite as good as restaurant pizza, but considering it was done in less than 5min was really cool. My biggest consern was that the pizza box had a somewhat open bottom, so it would cool down too much while taking it home. But eating it there at a park would be fun

[-] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

How so? Having an open bottom seems counter-intuitive.

For some reason I'm just having trouble imagining it.

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

That sounds delightful.

[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 39 points 19 hours ago

the pain machine

[-] daychilde@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

Why do we even HAVE this ~~orphan crushing~~ pain machine?

No, wait, yes, let's KEEP the pain machine. :)

[-] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

The nom jabbar

[-] TheTetrapod@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

The naan jabbar?

[-] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 3 points 14 hours ago

Ok this should be top comment.

And the make of the machine missed a real opportunity.

[-] Leviathan@lemmy.world 9 points 16 hours ago

There's a bakery here in Montreal that has an automatic baguette checkout for when the line gets too crowded with coffee and pastry orders. This is probably the same deal for the bakery it flanks.

[-] daychilde@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

an automatic baguette checkout

Because of course they do. That's delightful and a good idea. lol

[-] one_old_coder@piefed.social 7 points 16 hours ago

In Brittany (next to the sea usually) you can find oysters vending machines. It's weird.

[-] daychilde@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

That sounds awesome and fun except I'd be concerned about them staying okay - have to be careful buying fresh to not get dead ones.

I'm sure they must've worked it out sufficiently, but it'd be a worry for me. heh

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 12 hours ago

They just sell things loaded fresh every day. Americans don't shop like that, they buy huge quantities of packaged stuff infrequently.

[-] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 19 hours ago

That's great if you have a late-night baguette emergency situation!

[-] Novamdomum@fedia.io 8 points 18 hours ago

Not just just baguettes mon ami! Apparently also Croissants, Pain Au Chocolat and some kind of shorter loaf too. Maybe a cheese loaf cos it's the most expensive one?

[-] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 hours ago

According to their website, it's two types of baguettes (traditional and regular). The one that looks bigger is probably the traditional, which is typically shorter and sometimes a bit thicker.

[-] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Congrats for using the correct "pain au chocolat" and not the evil "chocolatine" some sick people have invented.

[-] daychilde@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

So you're saying you experience pain au 'chocolatine'? :)

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago

"here, baguettes"

[-] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 2 points 18 hours ago

"Here baguettes" no comma, they are ordering the baguettes to go in the shelter

[-] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 4 points 19 hours ago

Where is the bread coming out?

[-] egrets@lemmy.world 10 points 17 hours ago

The hole to the right of the selection buttons, in the center of the machine.

[-] AyuTsukasa@lemmy.zip 5 points 19 hours ago

I'm guessing that square in the middle is a slot.

[-] Obituarykidney@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

Comes out long ways 😭

[-] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 1 points 18 hours ago

Looks way too small, I think that's the coin return.

[-] egrets@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

Coin return is further down on the right.

[-] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Oh now I see what ~~you~~ @Ayutsu meant, right next to the buttons. Yes, that must be it.

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 4 points 19 hours ago

I hope they’re still allowed to breathe. Nothing worse than a soggy baguette

[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 16 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

This is France were talking about, even the shittiest last remaining supermarket baguette is still crunchier then any you can find outside the country.

That vending machine either keeps them perfect or is only a tourist trap.