I tend to buy all party supplies, gift wrap, bags, boxes, disposable plates and utensils at the dollar store.
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Is Hyper-specific to my hometown Cincinnati due to it's German heritage, but they have Goetta vending machines there during Goettafest. To the uninitiated, it's basically sausage mixed with oats. Read more

Colorado has vending machines that dispense cannabis and cannabis infused products. If there was machine next to it that dispensed pizza, millions could be made.
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My high school had a Tyson chicken vending machine. You put your money in, choose from things like barbecue boneless wings or a chicken sandwich or fries, and it grabbed a little frozen box of whatever and ran it through an internal microwave before spitting it out. Read more

Nando’s Peri-Peri has been serving up their “fresh” Dole Whip out of a soft serve machine for years — more accessible than a Disney park but who knows if it’s exactly the same. From what I’ve seen theirs starts from a bag of powder mix that’s mostly sugar. Read more

We had a licensed starbucks at my university, they made it as shitty as possible. For instance you could buy starbucks gift cards at the university location but couldn’t use them there, similarly all the apps and rewards didn’t work (you couldn’t even earn rewards either). A LOT of people were furious over the gift… Read more

We buy a bag of it now and then for summer. Uses a bog standard consumer ice cream maker. Mmm. Read more

That’s very likely.  I normally hate pineapple unless it’s grilled Brazilian style so it’s super crispy on the edges and carmelized in between, but in Hawaii I was willing to try anything cause I was in such a good mood.
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I suspect that is part of the secret as to why everyone loves it, the places you normally get it are all vacation places where you’re happy.  Read more

A couple of the summer ice cream stands here have Dole Whip, usually two flavors you can get alone or swirl. My favorite is when they have the vanilla and orange so I can get a dairy-free creamscicle. Read more

Disney doesn’t own the rights to it so you will see it at various soft serve places in SoCal (provided they aren’t part of a chain with their own recs). Depending on where you look you can even find the mix to use in your home ice cream makers. Read more

Yeah, it seems like this would be either dense, hard, or both and that’s not what Dole Whip should be. Read more

Yeah, I’m looking forward to trying it, but my expectations are low. Read more

Isn’t the texture supposed to be like soft serve?  I don’t know how you would do when something has to be sufficiently frozen to survive storage and transport. Read more

I look forward to this, especially the strawberry flavor. Read more

I don’t have a Woodman’s by me, but that floor gave me PTSD from Pathmark in the late 80's to early 90's. When I would tag along with my parents to go grocery shopping and ride the carts like a go-kart and hit those tiles and shake like a earthquake was happening.
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USDA Inspectors are extremely particular about products being within a certain window of weight, to the point where they’ll send back entire pallets to be rebagged if they’re even half-a-pound over- or underweight. Read more

I’ve noticed this happening a lot lately, not just chips, but frozen vegetables and even french fries. I loaded up on steam in the bag broccoli when it was on sale at Meijer’s, and got an unpleasant surprise when 3 of the 12 I bought had very little broccoli, and a lot of water/ice. The first one made me laugh, one… Read more

Eh same thing as getting an empty can of soda.
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Can confirm the air in the bag is for the chips protection is a straight up lie, because I got a half empty bag of pita chips from trader joes that was half crumbs Read more