Vending Machine Pizza is Here!

[CosmicPal]

http://slice.seriouseats.com/archives/2009/03/lets-pizza-italian-italy-pizza-vending-machine.html

http://slice.seriouseats.com/images/20090314-vendo.jpg

We're used to getting coffee, soda, candy, and chips from a vending machine. Now, according to the New York Times, if Claudio Torghele has his way, Italians and eventually Americans will be able to get a made-while-you-watch, freshly baked pizza from a vending machine.

The machine does not just slip a frozen pizza into a microwave. It actually whips up flour, water, tomato sauce, and fresh ingredients to produce a piping hot pizza in about three minutes.

The customer presses a button to choose one of four varieties—Margherita (plain cheese and tomato sauce), bacon, ham or fresh greens. A plastic container dumps flour into a drum resembling a tiny washing machine; a squirt of water follows, and the drum goes into a spin cycle, forming a blob of dough that is then pressed flat to form a 12-inch disk.

Tomato paste is squirted onto the dough and cheese is added before it is lifted into a small infrared oven. The baked pizza then slips onto a cardboard tray and out into the customer’s waiting hands. Mr. Torghele says the pizza will cost as little $4.50, depending on the variety.

[Hammock Parties]

And America gets even fatter.

[Otter]

And Leon's getting larrrrrrger!!!

[chasedude]

Priest Holmes is still waiting for the nacho version.

[googlegoogle]

Another American assault on a great food.

Probably microwaved pos.

["Bob" Dobbs]

And Leon's getting larrrrrrger!!!Well played! Rep! ...um, I mean, THIS!

[Bugeater]

Another American assault on a great food.

Probably microwaved pos.
Did you read the bolded part? I don't doubt that it sucks though.

[mlyonsd]

What they're not telling you is there's an illegal alien inside the giant box making it by scratch.

[FAX]

I mentioned this fabulous invention to the beautiful and witty Mrs. FAX this evening and she said, "I would never eat one of those." When I asked her why, she's convinced that the inside of the machine would get full of germs and bacteria and viruses (viri?) and other nastiness in just a week or two. Now I'm afraid to try one, too. Damn it.

FAX

[mikey23545]

There has never been a more negative, sandy-giner population than the denizens of Chiefsplanet....

[Sam Hall]

I'm sticking with Little Debbie oatmeal cream pies

[PastorMikH]

As bad as the Mazzios and Pizza Hut are in this town, this vending machine could put them both out of business.

[FAX]

There has never been a more negative, sandy-giner population than the denizens of Chiefsplanet....

Yep. She's not even a Planeteer and she ruined it for me.

FAX

[KcMizzou]

There has never been a more negative, sandy-giner population than the denizens of Chiefsplanet....Heh.

I tend to agree. But it's not all like that.

[KcMizzou]

Yep. She's not even a Planeteer and she ruined it for me.

FAX Sandy Giner? She was nice, but kinda chafed you after a while.

[Bugeater]

There has never been a more negative, sandy-giner population than the denizens of Chiefsplanet....
And you're just a ray of fucking sunshine yourself...

[luv]

I'm sticking with Little Debbie oatmeal cream pies

Those things remind me of my grandmother. They were my PaPa's favorite snack, so she kept them in a cookie jar instead of cookis.

[luv]

Sandy Giner? She was nice, but kinda chafed you after a while.

Images.....not....good.

[luv]

And you're just a ray of fucking sunshine yourself...

You're just jealous he said it before you. :p

[Bugeater]

You're just jealous he said it before you. :p
Hey goddamnit, I AM a ray of fucking sunshine, and don't you ever fucking forget it.

[luv]

Hey goddamnit, I AM a ray of fucking sunshine, and don't you ever fucking forget it.

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[Sam Hall]

I'm more likely to hit the vending machine for a Snickers, not a pizza.

[Crush]

... and it will taste like cardboard.

[Bugeater]

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That was the most annoying thing ever. :shake:

[luv]

That was the most annoying thing ever. :shake:

The appropriate word is cute. :p

[Bugeater]

The appropriate word is cute. :p
Cute things piss me off. :grr:

Find me something a little more grizzled.