全世界那些千奇百怪的奇葩自動售貨機
There are vending machines in sports centres and shopping centres. They stand proud in schools and hotels. You can clunk in cash and dunk for your drink in stations and airports.
體育場、賣場、學校、賓館、機場、車站等公共場合，你都能見到自動售貨機的身影，只要投幣，就能享受到你想要的飲品。
But if it sometimes seems like vending machines are taking over the country - like an army of static robot sentries - wait until you see vending machine culture abroad.
然而當看到世界各國那千奇百怪的自動售貨機時，你就會覺得自動收的功能真的強大的可以和機器人媲美。
It’s not just the sheer volume of machines in countries like China, Japan and the US, it’s what they sell. Like crab...
讓人驚奇的不僅是自動售貨機在各個國家的數量，更讓人叫絕的，是自動售貨機裏面賣的東西。
Here’s our guide to some of the weirdest vending machines in the world.
快來圍觀一下那些遍佈世界各地的千奇百怪的自動售貨機吧。
In China you can get Coca Cola from one vending machine, crisps from the one next to it and live crabs from the one next to that.
在中國，你可以從一臺自動售貨機裏買到可口可樂，然後從旁邊一臺裏面買到薯片，然後再旁邊一臺裏買到鮮活的大閘蟹。
Yep, in China, live hairy crab, a local delicacy, is available from a vending machine. The crabs probably aren’t best pleased.
螃蟹？是的，活螃蟹，在很多地區都是餐桌上的上等佳餚。居然可以在自動售貨機裏買到。相信蟹大俠並不喜歡被陳列在自動售貨機裏吧。
It’s the news secret middle class alcoholics will be raising a toast of something fruity-with-a-hint-of-oak to. Somebody has invented a wine vending machine, which is currently only in service in the US.
那些酒鬼中產階級們可以隨時舉杯了。有人發明了酒水自動售貨機，目前只在美國可以找到。
It’s an age old problem: you wake up at 4am and there isn’t a strawberry to be had. Well it’s one problem humanity no longer has to struggle with. Farmers in Belgium have invented a 24-hour chilled fresh strawberry vending machine that - as the name suggests - vends chilled fresh strawberries 24 hours a day.
老大爺老太太們早上四點就睡不着了，但是哪裏都沒開門，想吃草莓怎麼辦？目前這個問題在比利時已經得到解決。比利時農民發明了鮮草莓自動售貨機，確保了一天24小時都能買到新鮮草莓。
Chips (or French fries) are so popular in the Western world that it was only a matter of time before somebody invented a way to get them after a swim or before boarding a plane. This French fry vending machine is in Las Vegas .
炸薯條在西方是很受歡迎的食物，所以炸薯條自動售貨機的發明是必然的。在拉斯維加斯，這種炸薯條自動售貨機已經開始工作了。
Vending machines used to be all about junk - fizzy drinks, fried potato snacks, live hairy crabs and so on. But these are nothing if not health conscious times, which explains the increasing proliferation of machines selling peas, carrot sticks and other healthy items.
自動售貨機的定義似乎就是賣冰凍飲料和垃圾食品，但在健康意識越來越強烈的今天，自動售貨機也被賦予了賣健康食品的使命，青豆、胡蘿蔔等製成的健康零食也被成列進了自動售貨機。
No, you can't buy a taxi from a vending machine (yet), but in New Orleans you can buy a cool drink in the back of your taxi.
你不能在自動售貨機裏買到的士服務，但是你卻可以在美國新奧爾良的的士後面買到一杯冷飲。
It's a high tech version of those roadside stalls you still come across in rural parts with a pile of eggs and an honesty box. This egg vending machine is in operation in the Netherlands.
在新西蘭，一種賣雞蛋的自動售貨機正在郊區的路邊，從這種高科技售貨機可以裏，可以買到雞蛋和蜂蜜。
Japan has more vending machines per head of population than any other country, so as well as fizzy drinks, sex toys and iPods there’s also a machine for dispensing rice.
按人均佔有的比值，日本是擁有自動售貨機最多的國家。自動售貨機不僅賣冷飲、計生用品、電子產品，還賣大米。
