When we think of vending machines we think of cold drinks, coffee, chocolate and sweets.
Only in France, can you buy eggs, potatoes, bread, cheese, steak and pig’s intestines from 24-hour street vending machines!
In the Parisian meat vending machine you find everything from Carpaccio de Boeuf at €6, a tender 250g faux-filet steak for €8, pork chops for €5 but also Bayonne ham from the Basque country, chicken and even eggs.
Payment can be made by cash or by credit card.
The installation of the meat vending machines, continues a long a trend in France of making sure the public can get their fix of Gallic food 24 hours a day.
In 2011 Paris got its first 24-hour baguette dispenser when Jean-Louis Hecht put one next to his bakery in the 19th arrondissement.
Dismissing the notion that selling bread in automatic dispensers was tantamount to sacrilege for the French, he said: “This is the bakery of tomorrow. It is answering a real need. To me it’s a public utility.”
Baguette vending machines are now a fairly common sight in French cities.
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