Would you buy a pizza from a vending machine?

@RawBill1 (8531)
Gold Coast, Australia
June 14, 2012 7:05pm CST
Wow! Check out this amazing leap forward in technology! According to the manufacturer's website, you can get "Your pizza in 3 minutes from scratch, always made with fresh ingredients". Fresh Ingredients! Who are they trying to kid here! They must think that all consumers are stupid. Well, OK. Most consumers are, but anyway, would this type of vending machine appeal to you? Check out the video below to see how you can get your "fresh" food quickly! http://youtu.be/B4_C1BmT-R8
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@veganbliss (3895)
• Adelaide, Australia
15 Jun 12
Isn't technology wonderful, eh? I wonder how they make these fresh ingredients last so long? GMO's do you think? Yes, most consumers are stupid, following their habits & desires & not bothering to check what's exactly in the products they consume nor how it's treated. If they really knew, they wouldn't eat it & wouldn't buy it. When I was a kid, I used to cut fruit in the Barossa Valley. I asked what became of the contents of the maggot-filled, mouldy, disease infested slop in one bucket. I asked everyone there, one by one, even my grandmother. They each confirmed it was sent to the place that makes lollies! I went off lollies so fast that you wouldn't believe it!
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@RawBill1 (8531)
• Gold Coast, Australia
15 Jun 12
Maggot lollies hey! How lovely! If people knew about what makes up gelatin, which is in most lollies, then they might not buy them either! Yep, all those wonderfully fresh GMO's and preservatives that we cannot even pronounce. Nothing like good old fresh preservatives when we want to kill off the good bacteria in our gut!
• Adelaide, Australia
15 Jun 12
I say we rally all the Vegan Ninjas we can recruit & gang up on the buggers. Isn't it amazing! We're in the middle of a global economic crisis, a global financial crisis & a global environmental crisis & all they can think about is using their wonderful technology for this???
@RawBill1 (8531)
• Gold Coast, Australia
19 Jun 12
Yeah, it just goes to show that most corporations are only interested in profits. Same old story. We have had huge advances in technology over the last 50 years, but meanwhile the world keeps getting sicker and becoming more diseased. Makes no logical sense at all.
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
15 Jun 12
HI BILL, I don't think i'd try that. I have never been much on vending machine food to start. hope all is well w/u.
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@RawBill1 (8531)
• Gold Coast, Australia
15 Jun 12
Hello my old friend, seems a while since we have chatted here? No, anything that comes from a vending machine is not food in my opinion. Any wonder that cancer is so dominant in this fast food society we have these days! People are eating things as food that are too far removed from real food.
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@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
15 Jun 12
Hi, to u my old friend. have not been on mylot alot lately. U are so right about people not eating 'real food' like they should.I eat very little fast food, bnet u don't either. Happy days to u & the family.
@RawBill1 (8531)
• Gold Coast, Australia
19 Jun 12
No, I am not a fast food person at all. Thanks Jo, happy days to you all as well.
@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
15 Jun 12
By "Fresh" I hope that they mean they change the ingredients every few months or so. You can tell by the video and the machine itself that everything put into it is processed. It looks like it'd be tasty, but healthy is another thing. Would I eat something from it? NO. Would I like to see the thing make the pizza in real life? yes.
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@RawBill1 (8531)
• Gold Coast, Australia
19 Jun 12
It doesn't look at all tasty to me! Anyone out there should be able to tell that it is not at all healthy. "Fresh" does not mean much these days when printed on the side of a carton or food packaging. It can be labelled as fresh but still contain massive amounts of carcinogenic chemicals in the form of preservatives. I would much rather eat a piece of fruit fly blown rotting fruit that was not considered fresh!
@topffer (42156)
• France
16 Jun 12
"By "Fresh" I hope that they mean they change the ingredients every few months or so." I suppose that they mean that the ingredients have not reached their expiration date, which is not difficult for the tomato sauce,cheese and chorizo we see in the video : 1 or 2 months are reasonable.
@sender621 (14894)
• United States
15 Jun 12
I don't think that I would be satisfied with the taste of a pizza from a vending machine. I like to know a little more about where my pizza is coming from. I just don;t think that a vending machine could compete with pizza hut.
@RawBill1 (8531)
• Gold Coast, Australia
15 Jun 12
Even from Pizza Hut, you do not know what ingredients are used and you do not know who has been in contact with the pizza. Any weirdo could have been involved in the process, you would never know! As for the ingredients, there would be untold amounts of toxic chemicals even in a Pizza Hut pizza, from carcinogenic preservatives to bacteria killing pesticides in the GMO wheat and other ingredients. With any processed food, you have no idea where you food has been and in what laboratory the chemicals were cooked up in!
@Paper_Doll (2373)
• Philippines
15 Jun 12
I have tried the pizza being sold on carts moving around our place once, and I thought that it's not worth my money. I felt like I don't really eat pizza at all. It was like dough with catsup on it :D am sorry don't mean to offend anyone. But I have tried other pizza those that was sold on small stores and some of tastes good as well. If you're craving for pizza and doesn't have much budget, I think their pizza is already fine. I specially like pizza with thick and soft dough and most of the pizzas being sold on the cart has thin dough and sometimes, you will also notice that it's not soft like it has been in there for past couple of days :D
@RawBill1 (8531)
• Gold Coast, Australia
19 Jun 12
Any type of heavily processed fast food that is convenient is also going to be full of toxins which cause disease in the body. Not only do they taste bad but are horribly insufficient in terms of nutrition. People who eat for convenience and to save a few dollars are doing themselves an injustice. The short term gain will cause long term pain...eventually.
• United States
15 Jun 12
I am not sure if I would trust that. I like to eat healthy veggies, and there may not be no telling what is in that. I would have to say no.
@RawBill1 (8531)
• Gold Coast, Australia
15 Jun 12
I definitely do not trust it. I like to eat real fresh foods such as fruits and veggies that are grown either by myself or farmers that I know. Buying a pizza from a vending machine is so far removed from that, that I would not even class it as edible food.
@dandan07 (1906)
• China
15 Jun 12
There is no pizza vending machine here. And I do not think I can accept my pizza prepared by a machine. I think delicious food should contain fresh material and the care of the one who prepares it. If lose one of them, the food can not be delicious. Though many things can be done by machine now, it is really convinient. But the lose of taste and the lose of human's care can not be makeup.
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@RawBill1 (8531)
• Gold Coast, Australia
19 Jun 12
The more we get involved with machines preparing what we eat instead of humans, the more we lose touch with humanity and good health and the more sick we become as a race. It is no coincidence that the amounts of diseases such as cancer an diabetes have risen along the same lines as the amounts of food prepared by machines. Processed food will always cause us great sickness.
15 Jun 12
Not me I buy my pizzas from my local Istanbul Kebab shop and while the are making it I have a good chat to the staff who are all my friends.
19 Jun 12
I know the ingredients are good as I always go in the back door and see them preparing everything and if the health and safety inspector makes any recommendations I help them to carry those out.
@RawBill1 (8531)
• Gold Coast, Australia
20 Jun 12
But how do you know what goes into making the ingredients? For instance, the amount of pus in the cheese! The amount of chemicals in the meats! You never actually know what you are eating with processed foods.
@RawBill1 (8531)
• Gold Coast, Australia
19 Jun 12
Human interaction is always better than dealing with a machine. At least your friends will look after you and put lots of healthy ingredients on for you....hopefully!
@allen0187 (58444)
• Philippines
16 Jun 12
lol at the comments made in the youtube page!!! i'll probably try it once or twice just to experience the novelty of eating pizza from a vending machine. otherwise, i prefer my pizza freshly made and cooked in an oven. i wonder what other products and services will be available soon through a vending machine. thanks for sharing this one rawbill.
• United States
15 Jun 12
Wow! Just about the time I think I have heard of everything something crazy like this comes along ! lol.. no way I would buy a pizza from a vending machine! "Fresh" are you serious? Wow...
@RawBill1 (8531)
• Gold Coast, Australia
15 Jun 12
It is amazing how much the word "Fresh" is used in products these days to suck ignorant consumers in to buying them. "Fresh" juice in a plastic bottle at the store might have been bottled six months prior and has preservatives in in and had the goodness cooked out of it through pasteurisation, but can still be labelled fresh! The only fresh food in my opinion is the type that you pull out of your garden or buy from a reputable farmer at the farmers market where the food has been picked late the day before or even that morning.
• China
16 Jun 12
Too good to be true! Always made with fresh ingredients,it sounds like a good one.If only It were not a sales gimmick.
@RawBill1 (8531)
• Gold Coast, Australia
20 Jun 12
Yep, sales gimmick is what it is. Fresh food is found in gardens, not vending machines!
@RawBill1 (8531)
• Gold Coast, Australia
21 Jun 12
Yep, I have been eating it for nearly 40 years!
• China
20 Jun 12
You are so right!They showed off before an expert,you know a thing or two about food.
@katrinapaz (2436)
• Philippines
15 Jun 12
if that is really true then I would really admire the one who has invented it. but yes we are not really sure about the freshness of the ingredients but then it would really be convenient if we have pizza through vending machine
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@RawBill1 (8531)
• Gold Coast, Australia
15 Jun 12
I really do not think that there is anything to admire about people who profit from feeding the world poisonous chemicals. There is no way that these machines can operate without highly processed, heavily preservative laden so called foods. When you purchase from machines such as this, you are purchasing cancer and possibly diabetes too! That is the problem today. People want food that is convenient, with no regard for their health. It is not really convenient to spend their later years on medication and regular hospital visits is it?
• United States
15 Jun 12
dear i saw the video,wow! this is a leap from fast foods.I don't know if i would eat that pizza maybe if i looked into it some more.It does say from 3 minutes which is really quick.It may not be cooked fully and be undercooked.When this comes to "life" and pops up more often more and more fast food places are going to turn into vending machines.Would you rather look at a machine or a persons face?that might be the question of the future.I am not so sure about this.
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@RawBill1 (8531)
• Gold Coast, Australia
15 Jun 12
I am more worried about the level of preservatives and other nasty chemicals that this "food" has in it than the level it may be cooked. Undercooked, perfectly cooked or overcooked, I would not want to eat from a machine either way. But you have an interesting point as well. Real human interaction is disappearing from society these days and as such younger people are losing the ability to communicate with each other on an effective level. When that ability is gone, then you get misunderstanding and anger which can lead to violence or depression.
• United States
15 Jun 12
that's pretty crazy i must say! I dont think i would want a pizza from a machine just saying :)
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@RawBill1 (8531)
• Gold Coast, Australia
15 Jun 12
No way. Anything that comes from a machine is so far removed from real food that it should not be allowed to legally sell it as food.
@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
27 Jun 12
Hi Bill, It is an interesting exercise, I would certainly like to watch it in real time. There were not many ingredients was my first observation. For me a pizza has to be laden with toppings, with all the various flavours in perfect balance. There is no way a proper dough could be made in seconds either. Maybe the ingredients are fresh but what is their definition of fresh??? Pumped full of preservatives maybe. It's just not worth my consideration in any case because I don't use vending machines.
@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
28 Jun 12
All too true mate...*shakes head*
@RawBill1 (8531)
• Gold Coast, Australia
27 Jun 12
Yeah, it certainly does not look very appealing does it. It is styled on boring American pizzas who have no idea how to make a good pizza. Back when I was a junk food man I was disappointed to also find out that good pizzas with lots of toppings were hard to find in Queensland as well. Having grown up in Melbourne where there were lots of Italians, I guess I was spoiled by vast array of real independent pizza shops who were each very different and loaded their pizzas to the max with lots of toppings. Their definition of fresh would be that it was made then an there, which I understand, but what a lot of people out there who would be buying such a thing do not realise is that the ingredients are far from fresh. Some people just do not look that deeply into what they are eating unfortunately.
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@pergammano (7682)
• Canada
20 Jun 12
Dang it...dear Bill, I am late, late..late, tied up at the Vending Machine, whom ate my coins, and didn't deliver my piping hot PLASTIC pizza...NOT! My tardiness is due to the ailments of myLot! Vending machines, of any form, would NOT be in existence of they relied on my spending habits! I am the epitome of the Boy Scout (in female form).."Be prepared!" I find it much easier to eat, drink and be merry, with my own food, not that spewed from the intestines of a huge mechanical monster! I REALLY like to know what I am eating, therefore, I create, I know! My little insulated lunch bag, is as much a part of my travelling companions..as my purse!
@RawBill1 (8531)
• Gold Coast, Australia
20 Jun 12
HaHa! More likely that you were late due to being out in the garden harvesting real fresh foods! Being prepared is a bit part of the life of anyone that cares about their health. In this day and age, most have gotten lazy and expect to find food fast and easily as soon as they get hungry. But for those of us who care what we eat, we take food with us. We have a cooler bag that goes places with us as well so we can take fruit, and dehydrated snacks or even salads and smoothies with us when we go out places. I am always taking lots of options when I go to places where I think the only options available will be junk. I would never rely on a vending machine to feed me. I would rather go hungry.
• United States
13 Jul 12
I think it's a neat idea especially if you've seen our break room as long as it takes to try to use our microwave we could have a hot pizza made. But I think it should say it's made fresh infront of you but clearly none of the ingredients are truly "fresh".
@RawBill1 (8531)
• Gold Coast, Australia
14 Jul 12
I am against the use of microwaves too but that is another one of my discussions, so I will not go into that again here too much! Too right they are not fresh! The word fresh is used way too liberally and deceivingly in food marketing these days.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
18 Jun 12
I honestly have to say that this might be something that I would be willing to try. The reason that I would be willing to try it is because it is a much better alternative than many of the foods that are available in vending machines. In addition to that, the ingredients could be fresh if the machine was something that was serviced on a daily basis and I honestly do think that a vending machine like this would need to be serviced daily.
@RawBill1 (8531)
• Gold Coast, Australia
20 Jun 12
Really? There are actually worse things in vending machines? Guess I am not really familiar with them so much these days. They are not super popular here, but I did notice them everywhere in the USA recently. But how fresh are those ingredients really? Just because the ingredients are changed regularly does not make them fresh by any means. They would most likely have been mass produced in factories at some earlier date (god knows how much earlier) and would definitely be pumped full of carcinogenic chemicals in order to last. Fresh? No, not really!
@topffer (42156)
• France
16 Jun 12
Freshness is something relative : the cheese and chorizo that we see on the pizza can be kept during several months without reaching their expiration date. Well, more a Parmesan cheese is old and better it is, so there is nothing wrong here. Their main problem is the tomato sauce that has to be checked, let's be reasonable... every month ? In fact this vending machine can be used only to do pizzas with long term expiration dates ingredients. There is a tour de force in making such a pizza, but I would not like to try a dough baked in only 1 or 2 minutes. They have to use chemicals to do this dough which cannot be a true pizza dough. For the rest this vending machine is just an adaptation of robots already used by the industry, and I think that many responders saying that they will not buy a pizza from this machine have probably bought pizzas in their local supermarkets made by similar machines...
@RawBill1 (8531)
• Gold Coast, Australia
20 Jun 12
True. You know what you are talking about! Yes, people forget (or even don't know at all) that doughs and sauces and manufactured meats have all sorts of ingredients in them themselves. So main visible ingredients are not always the issue. It is what goes into those ingredients that is the main concern. Yep, people who buy these base ingredients from supermarkets and think that they are making a healthier pizza are probably just as likely to get toxic chemicals in their bodies as someone who eats pizza from one of these monstrosities.
• United States
15 Jun 12
Nah, I prefer hand made pizza d: It has: the much better smell of pizza, the better quality cheese, the crunchy crust, the mouthwatering tomato sauce and ingredients that are sliced to perfection! :D If I were to get a pizza from a vending machine, I think I would taste it just a bit to see
@RawBill1 (8531)
• Gold Coast, Australia
20 Jun 12
I doubt it would be that edible, even less so than a normal pizza.
• United States
15 Jun 12
Oops! I didn't quite finish! o-e --- just a bit to see if the pizza is worth eating. xP