KLUB 106.9 The Rock » vending machines http://1069therock.com The Best Classic Rock & The Best New Rock Sun, 26 May 2013 00:04:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 You Can Now Get Mashed Potatoes and Gravy From a Vending Machine http://1069therock.com/mashed-potatoes-vending-machine/ http://1069therock.com/mashed-potatoes-vending-machine/#comments Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:30:32 +0000 Don Deane http://thefw.com/?p=138845 In a move that will probably delight and disgust convenience store shoppers at the same time, 7-11 has begun offering mashed potatoes and gravy via a vending machine. Alas, the machines aren’t available here in the US yet. As strange as it sounds, we’d probably be first on line if they were.

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Items sold at movie theaters are exempt, which is odd given what calorie bombs those snacks can be.

The problem is that few Americans pay much attention to the nutrition labeling on even the packaged foods brought into their homes.

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