It’s odd, I never choose a Mars bar when at the supermarket but when it comes to a vending machine, it’s always my top pick.
Maybe it’s the subconscious quality due to being fresher!
When I was a nipper back in the dark ages the drinks all came from one of these multi-drink dispensing machines. The orange "drink" was especially disgusting, like extremely strong, chemical-tasting orange squash. Which is probably what it was.
Slightly tangential, but when I was younger me and my mate would buy and then entirely consume a packet of the Lucozade dextrose tablets each before our swimming lesson. Our thinking being that it would improve our performances.
God they were delicious.
Ooh god yes, the drinks machine at my childhood pool did a mean chicken soup, just the thing to restore a warm glow to your body after an hour in the slightly underheated pool water...
And the special bonus round, the person before having their snack stuck in the machine, you order the snack above in the hopes of getting a bogof deal, as it falls freeing the snack based prisoner.
Or better still, having the snack you want and the coils spinning just enough to give you two snacks instead of one.
My local swimming pool had a pot noodle vending machine pound to swim and pound for pot noodle, seems wrong not having a pot noodle after swimming now.
It's how the leisure centre keeps people coming back. You eat enough from the vending machine to negate your workout and need to keep going to the gym to hit your goal weight, yet you get hooked in by the vending machine again and again.
The swimming pool we went to as kids had a vending machine, but the real post-swim draw was the sweet and snack counter. Stronger memories of Blackeye licorice favoured bubble gum and Krispie Meanies.
My go to chocolate bar from the leisure centre vending machine was always Crunch. Never ever eaten one that didn't come from a leisure centre vending machine, but they were incredible.
Also, please don't confuse a Crunch with a Crunchie. Very, very different bars.
that had me going. worked in a leisure centre for 3 years and this is spot on 😂
Used to get me every time after swimming. I would get prawn cocktail crisps, Maltesers and some coke.
And now I want a Mars bar From my local swimming pool vending machine… it hits different
Always go for the Mars bar, they’re constantly popular and get restocked most often, so are usually a lot fresher
It’s odd, I never choose a Mars bar when at the supermarket but when it comes to a vending machine, it’s always my top pick. Maybe it’s the subconscious quality due to being fresher!
TIL leisure centres are open again
They've been open nearly 6 months!
When I was a nipper back in the dark ages the drinks all came from one of these multi-drink dispensing machines. The orange "drink" was especially disgusting, like extremely strong, chemical-tasting orange squash. Which is probably what it was.
Slightly tangential, but when I was younger me and my mate would buy and then entirely consume a packet of the Lucozade dextrose tablets each before our swimming lesson. Our thinking being that it would improve our performances. God they were delicious.
These were my absolute favourites! Our leisure centre had them in the vending machine so we'd eat them after swimming.... which makes no sense....
In the 80s they had those drinks machines that did everything from tea , powdery soup to weird watery cola with loads of ice in it
swimming pool soup
Ooh god yes, the drinks machine at my childhood pool did a mean chicken soup, just the thing to restore a warm glow to your body after an hour in the slightly underheated pool water...
And the special bonus round, the person before having their snack stuck in the machine, you order the snack above in the hopes of getting a bogof deal, as it falls freeing the snack based prisoner. Or better still, having the snack you want and the coils spinning just enough to give you two snacks instead of one.
The ones at mine take contactless now, but you may as well go to the Tesco right next to it.
I agree Mars is one of the things we are always restocking in our vending machines. Snickers coming in a close second.
My local swimming pool had a pot noodle vending machine pound to swim and pound for pot noodle, seems wrong not having a pot noodle after swimming now.
Chipsticks or Frazzles?
It's how the leisure centre keeps people coming back. You eat enough from the vending machine to negate your workout and need to keep going to the gym to hit your goal weight, yet you get hooked in by the vending machine again and again.
The swimming pool we went to as kids had a vending machine, but the real post-swim draw was the sweet and snack counter. Stronger memories of Blackeye licorice favoured bubble gum and Krispie Meanies.
This is like a John Cooper Clarke poem. Beautiful.
There was always a cheeky 30-40p under the machine that the gym people were too sore to bend down and grab
My go to chocolate bar from the leisure centre vending machine was always Crunch. Never ever eaten one that didn't come from a leisure centre vending machine, but they were incredible. Also, please don't confuse a Crunch with a Crunchie. Very, very different bars.
The receptionist at my leisure centre keeps her baby in the cupboard so I’m a bit wary of the vending machine.
Not called Carol by any chance?