From burrito to ballpoint pen pens , there’sno shortfall of strange itemsyou can obtain from a hawk political machine . Now , the Associated Press reportsthat Paris resident long for a hand - carved steak or a juicy sausage can buy an assortment of meaty commodity from the city ’s first automated sore meat dispenser .
The refrigerate automobile sits on the Rue de Charonne in eastern Paris . clip - witting customers can expend credit cards or cash to in a flash grease one’s palms vacuum - packed delicacy ranging from duck confit and kick carpaccio to faux - filet steaks .
The Rue de Charonne area is filled with scads of butcher ’ shops . However , many of these brick - and - howitzer locating are shut down on Sundays or afterward in the even . agree to Florence and Michel Pouzol — who engage the machine and race nearby stumbler shop L’ami Txulette — the machine serves the needs of busy home chefs , since the meat vending machine permit customers grease one’s palms protein - packed kickshaw 24/7 .
" We ’re closed two day : Sundays and Mondays , " Florence Pouzol told The Associated Press . " So this is to provide for customers over the weekend . … The musical theme was also to serve people after the workshop ’s closing hours . We close at 8 p.m. but some people leave work very of late and find the shop closed when they walk past it . "
With convenience amount a price . The vending machine is n’t cheap for customer , or for the Pouzels . On middling , the machine ’s goods are 20 euro cents more expensive than the ones inside L’ami Txulette . It also cost $ 45,000 for the Pouzols to set up .
However , the popularity of meat monger machines — and pitch machines stocking dinner party food in general — seems to be uprise . According toThe Telegraph , four other meat vend machines opened in France ’s responsibility over the past four year . And in 2011 , Paris got its first 24 - time of day baguet hawking machine , spurring hundreds more to be instal across the country .
[ h / tAssociated Press ]
