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13 Old School Snacks You Won't Find In Vending Machines Anymore By Andy Beth Miller Oct. 21, 2025 4:40 pm EST

Buckle in, travelers, we're cranking open the neon-humming door of the Takeout Time Machine. Its buttons are sticky with soda pop syrup, and inside it hums the faint, sugary static of days gone by. Today's destination is the Vending Machine Graveyard, where ghosts of the best vending machine snacks from our youth still rattle in their coils.

In this time-traveling contraption, you can still hear the clunk of a plastic bottle dropping into the vending machine tray. For a second, the world still tastes like Minute Maid grape soda and the questionable cafeteria freedom to drink yourself into a deep purple, corn syrup-induced coma. Let this be a w

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