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Post by German_EPA » Sun Feb 17, 2008 12:41 pm

The smell of french fries will alert the enemy in the fields...
or they all will give up and sitting around the vending machine, eating french fries and talking about MRE and EPA or whatever... :lol:
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Post by German_EPA » Sun Feb 17, 2008 12:46 pm

you are talking about degrees of fahreneit?

you need about 180 degrees celsius for frying french fries. maybe it would be possible with some more or bigger heating elements.

there are french fries which can be make in the micro wave - so it must be possible with more heating elemts to do this in an FRH... or what do you think? :?:


kman wrote:Nice find on the video - looks like it's Japanese. This makes me think they should add an MRE side - French Fries...or Potatoes, French Fried...I mean Freedom Fried. :-)

Each French Fry side would come with a Hot-Beverage-Bag-type thing that would be used for heating up vegetable oil to 450 degrees. You'd then insert your pre-cut potatoes, prop the "Boiling-Hot-Oil-Bag" up against a "rock or something" and wait 6-8 minutes for your fries to cook up.

I still haven't figured out what exactly you'd use for a heating source. An FRH only gets water up to about 200 degrees...we need to double that!
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Post by Baldy » Sun Feb 17, 2008 1:14 pm

I remember one of those 'french fry' (they're called CHIPS, God-damn it! :wink: ) vending machines was installed at a market in my home town - must have been around 1985 or thereabouts. It was called 'Mr Chips'.

Out of curiosity my dad put a few coins into the machine, then we stood and watched this miracle of technology in action. It throbbed, clunked, gave off smoke, then this cup of... stuff dropped out of it. The chips were pale, hard, waxy and drenched in foul-smelling grease.

I tried a chip, and I can safely say it was the most disgusting thing I have ever eaten. Perhaps unsurprisingly, I've never seen another one of those machines.

I hope the German machines work better than the early Australian ones!

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Post by Treesuit » Sun Feb 17, 2008 4:03 pm

I also remember a "french frying vending machine" I saw in Okinawa, Japan about 1991. It really was way ahead of it's time, I didn't try it of course but the smell did lure me over. It was right next to a regular soda vending machine, but also an alcohol one, and a vending machine that sold batteries of different sizes.
I guess if you pretty drunk you can grab a snack whilie you waiting for you double AA's to arrive. :lol:

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Post by housil » Sun Feb 17, 2008 5:07 pm

kman wrote: Each French Fry side would come with a Hot-Beverage-Bag-type thing that would be used for heating up vegetable oil to 450 degrees. You'd then insert your pre-cut potatoes, prop the "Boiling-Hot-Oil-Bag" up against a "rock or something" and wait 6-8 minutes for your fries to cook up.

I still haven't figured out what exactly you'd use for a heating source. An FRH only gets water up to about 200 degrees...we need to double that!
:!: Freeze Dried :D
or
plan B) take the potatos sticks from a MRE and give them WHILE heating the entree in the FRH too. They will get hot AND swell up :wink:

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Post by DangerousDave » Sun Feb 17, 2008 6:31 pm

Well, I can stil gol to Food-Dog or BK, both about 17 klicks away, and Get a fresh Whopper, or, in the case of FoodDog, a couple frozen Pierre Foods cheesburgers. Then, I have to remember the fresh jarred Kimche, nearby. What to eat? Hmmm? :roll:

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Re: Cheeseburger in a can

Post by katojapan » Sun Feb 24, 2008 9:45 pm

Cheeseburger in a can? What a surprise!
Here in Japan, there used to be burgers sold in vending machines.
It was called "Guten Burger." It was priced at 200 yen (2 U.S. dollars).
They offered three taste: hamburger, cheese hamburger, and teriyaki burger.
We were able to find these
vending machines at
railroad stations, pool-side snack bars, bowling alleys, and skate links.
Guten Burger was gone in 2002
because the producer went out of business.
Burger King left Japan at the same period of time.
This was because a number of MacDonald's stores skyrocketed.

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Post by Baldy » Tue Feb 26, 2008 9:01 am

When I visited Japan the number and variety of vending machines amazed and delighted me. I remember the first thing I saw in my hotel lobby was a beer vending machine. Kirin beer (my favourite Japanese beer), no less. As I popped the top on a cold one I decided this was a pretty civilized way to live.

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Post by DangerousDave » Sun Mar 02, 2008 11:59 pm

Now thats what I'm talking about. BurgerKing vending machines that never materialized here in the USA. The Japanese tear us up, on the vending machines. I want a cheeseburger vending machine. :)

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Post by C-rats » Mon Mar 03, 2008 2:30 pm

How about a MRE vending machine? :)
Everything tastes better with Tabasco

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