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There hasn't been an automat -- does anyone even remember automats? -- in Kansas City since the 1960s, when there was a building filled with groovy vending machines in Waldo. (Leonard Mirabile, of Jasper's Restaurant, told me about it; he loved it when he was a kid).
Since the last great era for the automat was the Great Depression, it may be time for a renaissance for those coin-operated eating venues.
Yesterday's story in the New York Times describes a new vending machine that bakes fresh pizza -- that's right, from scratch, not frozen -- in three minutes.
I wonder if such a machine would work in Kansas City like, maybe, at the stadiums?
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A man is walking down the street in the lower east side when he sees his cousin, newly arrived in the country, putting coin after coin into the automat, and pull out slice after slice of pie. He goes in and asks his cousin, "what are you doing?"
His cousin responds, "what's it to you if I keep winning?"
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