Drink Machines

In Japan, there are lots of drink vending machines. In America, there are drink machines too, of course, but the ones in Japan are different. They don't display the drinks themselves like in America. In America there are generally two types of drink machines. Ones that don't show the product at all (usually have a plastic cover with a large picture of a cold Coke/Pepsi product, and ones that have a glass panel that show all the drinks.

The Japanese drink machines are very interesting. They don't display the drinks themselves, like I said earlier. They display the empty bottles of the drink itself. Sometimes plastic fills the bottle to the fill line, so it looks like a full drink. Others have advertisements to make the drink more appealing flowing around the can. It's nice to see the bottles and cans, however. It shows exactly what you're going to get. And since Japanese vending machines have varied sizes to their drinks, it's nice to see how big or small the drink itself actually is.

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