盤點全球五花八門的自動售貨機

You probably don’t pay much attention to vending machines, except when you’re thirsty or want a quick snack. Usually you can only choose from a small selection of fizzy drinks and packed, processed snacks. In other words: boring and not very healthy.

你或許只有在口渴或想吃點兒零食時纔會注意到自動售貨機。通常，售貨機只出售汽水和獨立包裝的加工食品，可選餘地較小。換句話說就是：品種單一且不利健康。

But vending machines are evolving and some now offer a variety of foods that are freshly prepared, just for you. Whether it’s a cold, sweet treat, a hot meal, or even fresh cooking ingredients, there’s something to satisfy everyone’s desires.

但是自動販賣機正在進化，如今一些自動售貨機可以專門爲你提供新鮮烹飪的各式食品。無論是冷飲、甜點、熱餐、甚至是新鮮食材，總有一款能令你滿意。

Hairy selection

大閘蟹自動售貨機

Where: China

國家：中國

What: hairy crabs

出售商品：大閘蟹

How much: 10-45 yuan

價格：10—45元人民幣

In Nanjing, consumers can buy fresh, live crabs from a vending machine. To keep them alive, the machine has an internal temperature of 5 C, which keeps the crabs in a state of hibernation. Five different varieties of crabs are available and according to an Associated Press report the machine sells up to 200 of them a day. If anyone receives a dead crab, the company compensates consumers with three live ones.

在南京，消費者可以從自動售貨機上買到鮮活的螃蟹。爲保證螃蟹長時間存活，售貨機內部溫度設定爲5攝氏度，從而保持螃蟹處於冬眠狀態。在這裏，你可以買到五種不同的螃蟹，據美聯社報道，該售貨機一天可售出200只螃蟹。如果有消費者買到死蟹，商家會賠償三隻活螃蟹。

Automatic meal

自動點餐機

Where: The Netherlands

國家：荷蘭

What: automat restaurant

出售商品：自動販賣式餐館

How much: 1.60-6.50 euros (15-55 yuan)

價格：1.6—6.5歐元（合15—55元人民幣）

In the Netherlands there is a restaurant chain that serves food exclusively out of vending machines, or automats. Open 24 hours a day, FEBO is popular aMong tourists and locals out late. It offers a Dutch menu including croquettes, frikandels (a deep-fried sausage) and kaassouffles (a melted-cheese snack). But rather than being prepared in the vending machines, the food is prepared by humans in a kitchen behind the machines.

在荷蘭有一家只在自動售貨機上出售食物的連鎖餐廳。FEBO是一家自動販賣式餐館，提供24小時全天候服務，深受遊客和當地夜貓族的歡迎。它提供的荷蘭菜品包括炸肉丸、frikandels（一種油炸香腸）和kaassouffles（一種奶酪卷）。但是，這些食物並非是在自動販賣機裏製作的，而是在機器後面的廚房裏人工烹飪的。

Creative treat

創意冰激凌

Where: US

國家：美國

What: ice cream

出售商品：冰激凌

How much: $3 (18 yuan)

價格：3美元（合18元人民幣）

An ice-cream machine may not sound like anything special, but the MooBella Ice Creamery Machine certainly is!

儘管冰激凌自動售貨機可能聽上去並無特別之處，但是MooBella冰激凌自動販賣機的確與衆不同。

Using a touchscreen panel, customers can design their own ice cream in three easy steps. A total of 12 flavors are available, but a choice of special mix-ins, including chocolate chips and cookies, means 96 different combinations are possible. Each portion is freshly mixed in just 40 seconds.

通過觸屏界面，顧客只需三步，便可輕鬆定製自己的冰激凌。該機器上共有12種口味供你選擇，還包括巧克力片和曲奇餅在內的多種特別搭配，也就是說顧客可以自行配製出96款冰激凌。只需40秒，就可品嚐到新鮮製作的冰激凌。

Lazy indulgence

懶人的福音

Where: Singapore

國家：新加坡

What: mashed potato

出售商品：土豆泥

How much: S$1 (5 yuan)

價格：1新元（合5元人民幣）

Making mashed potato is a long, laborious process. But thanks to Maggi, a Swiss food and condiment company, it can be as simple as just adding hot water to a packet of mashed potato powder. In Singapore, however, not even that is necessary anymore. Many 7-Eleven stores there now have Maggi mashed potato machines. All hungry customers need to do is place a cup under the machine’s nozzle, push a button and mashed potato comes pouring out. You can even add chicken gravy sauce if you like.

做土豆泥本是費時又費力的事。但得益於瑞士Maggie食品調料公司，你只需要把熱水倒入一包土豆泥粉中，土豆泥就可輕鬆製作完成了。然而在新加坡，就連這個工序都可以省了。如今很多新加坡的7-Eleven便利店都配備了Maggie土豆泥自動售貨機。飢腸轆轆的顧客只要把杯子放在機器噴嘴下面，按下一個按鈕，土豆泥就出來了！你喜歡的話，甚至還可以在其中加上雞汁醬。

High-tech chef

高科技大廚

Where: Italy

國家：意大利

What: Pizza

出售商品：披薩

How much: 3-4.5 euros (25-35 yuan)

價格：3—4.5歐元（合25—35元人民幣）

Italians invented the pizza, so it was only a matter of time until they invented a pizza-making machine. Let’s Pizza prepares fresh pizza in less then three minutes and allows the customer to watch the whole process through a window. It kneads the dough, spreads the sauce on it, adds a choice of four toppings and then bakes the pizza. The machine can make up to 100 26-centimeter pizzas before it needs to be refilled.

意大利人創造了披薩，所以，他們發明出披薩機也只是時間早晚的問題。這款Let’s Pizza自動售貨機可以在三分鐘內製作出新鮮的披薩，顧客可以通過一個窗口觀看到整個烹飪過程。該機器先是揉麪團、噴灑醬料，再加入可供顧客四選一的配料，然後烘焙披薩。填滿一次材料，最多可以製作出100個直徑26釐米的披薩。