Buying, selling, and trading rations
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Treesuit
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by Treesuit » Sun Mar 09, 2008 7:45 pm
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bishopmarine
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by bishopmarine » Sat Feb 28, 2009 4:03 pm
The coolest thing I remember getting from a vending machine was beer. I was 18 fresh out of boot camp at parris island. I was in millington tennessee. I had talked a "girlfriend" of mine into driving the 12 hours to spend a 96 hour weekend with me. While checking her into the temporary lodging facility I spotted an odd looking vending machine. Basically an older standard can drink machine, but on each button was hand written on a white sticker bud, bud light, mgd and so forth. They were one dollar each that was a lot in 1996 to me anyway. But still cool none the less. I bought one then got the "girlfriend" who was 23 or 24 to get us some real booze.
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Treesuit
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by Treesuit » Sun Mar 01, 2009 8:19 pm
Bishopmarine,
Yeah,I can relate to that story. During my first two years in Okinawa, Japan the vending machines in the barracks always had soda, cigarettes, and beer. I thought it was pretty funny you could get a Budweiser or Coors for .50 back then any time of the day.

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clogger
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by clogger » Wed Mar 04, 2009 1:21 am
Hi Peeps
i can say that the picture is nothing like the burger you get outta the can
no salad etc
just quite a scary looking thin burger in a thin hard edged bun with a wierd dark orangy/brown layer of cheese i think it is
not brill at all but saying that i`ve had worse
worth it just for the novelty value
still got 19 of em left yum
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by dirtbag » Wed Mar 04, 2009 3:01 am
50 cent beer...
I can remember 10 cent beer, at happy hour !
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Biltong
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by Biltong » Wed Mar 11, 2009 3:05 pm
DangerousDave wrote: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.

and no rude employees!
Back in the eighties when I still drove OTR; I was at Molsen Golden in Montreal, they had recycling vending machines. You would put an aluminum can in and out dropped a nickel. Pretty neat idea. I have never seen them before or after that.
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Stef
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by Stef » Wed Mar 11, 2009 5:02 pm
Hi,
some 30 years ago (

!) when I visited the family in Paris, near their place there was a recycling vending machine for the wine and soda bottles. As a kid, I used to look everywhere for empty bottles with my little brother and we were making enough money to buy some candy, Coke, cinema tickets whenever we wanted.
AAh, good ol'time ...

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SaTrinxa
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by SaTrinxa » Thu Mar 12, 2009 4:12 pm
clogger wrote:Hi Peeps
i can say that the picture is nothing like the burger you get outta the can
no salad etc
just quite a scary looking thin burger in a thin hard edged bun with a wierd dark orangy/brown layer of cheese i think it is
not brill at all but saying that i`ve had worse
worth it just for the novelty value
still got 19 of em left yum
Where did you get them from clogger?
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clogger
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by clogger » Tue Apr 07, 2009 10:59 am
slightly off topic
but how pleasing it is that you thought you`d done deals with people
just for it to go all quiet.
still it`s par for the course . who cares.
had two burgers over the weekend loads of hot pepper sauce sorted

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SaTrinxa
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by SaTrinxa » Thu Apr 09, 2009 2:14 pm
clogger wrote:slightly off topic
but how pleasing it is that you thought you`d done deals with people
just for it to go all quiet.
still it`s par for the course . who cares.
had two burgers over the weekend loads of hot pepper sauce sorted

My fault entirely clogger
I accidentally deleted your email so I lost your address and couldn't respond

Not been on the forum for a while too so have only just seen this.