Sean Bonner is posting great photos from Japan including this one of a canned coffee vending machine. Mmmmm. And I thought Nescafe sucked!
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On The Cranky Middle Manager Episode 101, Wayne interviewed guest Anita Bruzzese, a workplace columnist who’s “On the Job†is syndicated in dozens of Gannet-run US newspapers and sometimes USAToday.com.
Anita reciprocated by writing an article on Wayne’s podcast that came out in a bunch of papers this week, this one is from the Salt Lake City Tribune.
Thanks Anita from all of us at TPN!
Nescafe is fine if you don’t mind your coffee tasting like a very disappointing icecream.
Since getting a coffee machine I can’t even stomach the expensive instant.
Cam,
as someone who has had 2 instant coffees in his life, has lived in Italy, has an espresso maker, can’t imagine starting the day without a coffee, I must admit to having had one of these coffees.
After a very late night in Japan after a conference, and needing to get into Tokyo on a train, I found myself rather the worse for wear, facing an hour train trip, on a platform, where there was a vending machine for these coffees.
It was hardly the finest coffee, but it did the trick. And better, even cold, than an instant coffee IMHO.
BTW, I think you can get them here these days, sadly without the Japanese labelling which makes them feel like something out of blade runner.
john
Some of the machines even have hot canned coffee, soya milk and all sorts of other weird Japanese drinks. Didn’t try the coffee when I was there though.
Beats having to get your usual soft-drink selection when you’re thirsty and only in the vicinity of vending machines.
After living in Japan for 9 years, I think vending machines are a plague on Japanese society. The damn things are everywhere. I’ve seen vending machines for batteries, alcohol, tobacco, bags of rice, vegetables, record albums, dildos and vibrators, and of course, the drink vending machines with their overpriced drinks. Luckily, American-style junk food vending machines haven’t caught on here. No doubt they’ll sneak into Japanese society too, alongside with 7-eleven’s and McDonald’s.