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  • Where is the BBQ Sauce coming from!?

    For the past several days at work, I kept noticing a puddle of what looked to be BBQ sauce under one of the stands of candy/toy dispensers (machines like these: http://www.gumball.com/images/beaver-5-head-combo.jpg
    I kept calling for clean-ups, but there would always be more later. I thought it was weird that something was being spilled in the same place all the time. THEN I realized the worst and opened-up the dispenser door....

    To find the thing STUFFED with congealed BBQ sauce and soggy skittles.

    That thing needed serious cleaning and now I'm paranoid an keep checking inside the little doors during my rounds!
    "If anyone wants this old box containing the broken bits of my former faith in humanity, I'll take your best offer now. You may be able to salvage a few of em' for parts..... " - Quote by Argabarga

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    Presumably nobody actually tried to purchase something from the machine in that time, or you'd (or someone would) have gotten a complaint pretty darn quickly. Makes you wonder how much actually gets sold out of those machines in general.

    Now when I was a kid, those machines always advertised that they had a camera in them as the top prize. Never actually got one, and now those cameras sell on eBuy for stupid money, especially considering that nobody's made 17.5mm film in ages, and they took crappy pictures even when they were new... (OK, better I should say they're asking for stupid money, but nobody's actually bidding on the damn things.)
    (It just occurred to me, back in the pre-digital era, how frustrated the photofinishers must have felt when some 8-year-old kid came in with one of these tiny rolls clutched in their fist, and how they would have had to explain to them how unlikely it would have been that they'd get a decent picture, assuming anything came out in the first place. I was that kid once, went in to the local developing store with a roll of 127 shot in a toy camera, and came back to find that nothing on the whole roll came out, and he still wanted to charge me $1.50. I should have told him to take a hike, but I was a dumb kid and paid him anyway. How do I knew he even tried? I never got back any blank negatives. That store didn't last long, come to think of it.)
    Last edited by Shalom; 02-03-2012, 06:38 PM. Reason: added pic

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    • #3
      That's just it, though. She said it was full of BBQ sauce and soggy Skittles, so unless it wasn't actually a Skittles vending machine, people had attempted to get Skittles, found the mess, and then just walked off without saying a word.

      ^-.-^
      Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others. - Dresden

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      • #4
        Quoth Shalom View Post
        Now when I was a kid, those machines always advertised that they had a camera in them as the top prize. Never actually got one, and now those cameras sell on eBuy for stupid money, especially considering that nobody's made 17.5mm film in ages,
        you can split 35mm film, or just use 16mm. I have two of those cameras(one still has old film in it, and instructions and a case)
        Honestly.... the image of that in my head made me go "AWESOME!"..... and then I remembered I am terribly strange.-Red dazes

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        • #5
          It was a skittles machine, which leads me to either believe the perps paid to make candy come out to make a bigger mess, or several people tried to get skittles, found the sauce, and just left without letting cleaning know. Sad, because the machines are right near the mall office.
          "If anyone wants this old box containing the broken bits of my former faith in humanity, I'll take your best offer now. You may be able to salvage a few of em' for parts..... " - Quote by Argabarga

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          • #6
            OK, I'm confused. I still don't know how BBQ sauce got into a Skittles machine....
            "Is it hot in here to you? It's very warm, isn't it?"--Nero, probably

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            • #7
              My suspicion would be that somebody swiped a bottle from a local Arby's (do you even have Arby's in your area) and used it to squirt sauce into the opening.

              Of course, any condiment bottle will do for that sort of mayhem.

              ^-.-^
              Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others. - Dresden

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              • #8
                Quoth Shalom View Post
                Ooo I'd like one of those. I bet in Japan they'd still have the film maybe.


                Seriously, toy cameras are big there. With all the defects.

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                • #9
                  Quoth Food Lady View Post
                  OK, I'm confused. I still don't know how BBQ sauce got into a Skittles machine....
                  The little door that you open for the candy to spill-out into your hand; they must have squeezed packets and packets of BBQ sauce into it from the nearby Chick-Fil-A. Then someone paid for skittles, which TRIED to come-out the little door, got bogged-up in the sauce, and...puddled into candy goo.
                  "If anyone wants this old box containing the broken bits of my former faith in humanity, I'll take your best offer now. You may be able to salvage a few of em' for parts..... " - Quote by Argabarga

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                  • #10
                    Those poor Skittles, what did anyone ever do to them?! It's okay, poor unloved skittles, you can come home with me...

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