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> dispensed drinks were rare cans that were either ordinarily unavailable in the United States or have not been in circulation since the 1980s > In June 2018,

> dispensed drinks were rare cans that were either ordinarily unavailable in the United States or have not been in circulation since the 1980s > In June 2018, the machine mysteriously disappeared I don't think it's mysterious. The owner likely ran out of full, rare cans of soda and could not / did not want to source them anymore.

dylan604 5y ago
or he didn't have to restock it because at some point, people got tired of drinking flat stale soda from the 80s
slaughtr 5y ago
I never got anything particularly weird out of that machine. Drunkenly dropped $20 in it a few times. Mostly it was the odd flavors of things you only see in specialty stores, but I never saw anything "rare" other than an out of season Mtn Dew.
xenadu02 5y ago
> I don't think it's mysterious. The owner likely ran out of full, rare cans of soda and could not / did not want to source them anymore. For folks who aren't aware your local distributor cans / bottles a much wider variety of product than what you find on typical grocery store shelves. If you have a commercial account with them you can get the list. Sometimes they make special runs for a promotion, special event, or special client order. Depending on the circumstances and if you have a good relationship with your sales rep you may be able to get notified and grab a case or two. It is possible they were vending long expired drinks... but it is also possible they simply had a hookup at the distributor and sourced rare drinks from time to time.
- TedDoesntTalk 5y ago
  Ok, but that doesn’t explain cans from the 1980s, does it?
  - toast0 5y ago
    This is just internet rumor BS, but I've read that many drinks are not removed from bottlers' repretoires, they just stopped getting orders when the soda company stopped marketting it. Supposedly, you could order Crystal Pepsi, but nobody did, so none was made (except for a brief period a couple years ago).
- TheFreim 5y ago
  > Depending on the circumstances and if you have a good relationship with your sales rep you may be able to get notified and grab a case or two. Works this way for tons of things. People would be surprised the kind of things you can get by being generous to sales reps.
- antifa 5y ago
  > It is possible they were vending long expired drinks... but it is also possible they simply had a hookup at the distributor and sourced rare drinks from time to time. I stepped into my office 6 months after covid WFH started. All the unrefrigerated sodas were flat. I doubt they had expired drinks with no complaints.
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dylan604 5y ago

or he didn't have to restock it because at some point, people got tired of drinking flat stale soda from the 80s

slaughtr 5y ago

I never got anything particularly weird out of that machine. Drunkenly dropped $20 in it a few times. Mostly it was the odd flavors of things you only see in specialty stores, but I never saw anything "rare" other than an out of season Mtn Dew.

xenadu02 5y ago

> I don't think it's mysterious. The owner likely ran out of full, rare cans of soda and could not / did not want to source them anymore. For folks who aren't aware your local distributor cans / bottles a much wider variety of product than what you find on typical grocery store shelves. If you have a commercial account with them you can get the list. Sometimes they make special runs for a promotion, special event, or special client order. Depending on the circumstances and if you have a good relationship with your sales rep you may be able to get notified and grab a case or two. It is possible they were vending long expired drinks... but it is also possible they simply had a hookup at the distributor and sourced rare drinks from time to time.

TedDoesntTalk 5y ago
Ok, but that doesn’t explain cans from the 1980s, does it?
- toast0 5y ago
  This is just internet rumor BS, but I've read that many drinks are not removed from bottlers' repretoires, they just stopped getting orders when the soda company stopped marketting it. Supposedly, you could order Crystal Pepsi, but nobody did, so none was made (except for a brief period a couple years ago).
TheFreim 5y ago
> Depending on the circumstances and if you have a good relationship with your sales rep you may be able to get notified and grab a case or two. Works this way for tons of things. People would be surprised the kind of things you can get by being generous to sales reps.
antifa 5y ago
> It is possible they were vending long expired drinks... but it is also possible they simply had a hookup at the distributor and sourced rare drinks from time to time. I stepped into my office 6 months after covid WFH started. All the unrefrigerated sodas were flat. I doubt they had expired drinks with no complaints.

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