Parisians can get meat chop chop from 24-hour vending machine

08 February 2016 - 02:18 By David Chazan, © The Daily Telegraph

Parisians seized with a sudden hunger for red meat can now buy steaks or sausages at any time of day or night from the capital's first raw meat vending machine.It was installed last week outside a butcher's shop in the fashionable 11th arrondissement."The vending machine offers a selection of our products," said Florence Pouzol, owner of the L'Ami Txulette butchery."We wanted to serve our customers when the shop is closed."A 250g faux fillet of beef costs £6.50 (about R1520, while two pork chops are priced at £3.85.The machine, which accepts cash or credit cards, also stocks beef carpaccio, ham, chicken and eggs.Paris got its first 24-hour baguette vending machine in 2011, when a baker installed one next to his boulangerie.The refrigerated meat machine costs nearly £8000.A delicatessen in the central town of Mennetou-sur-Cher installed one last month that sells andouillette, a strongly-flavoured sausage made with pig's intestines."Mennetou andouillettes have a great reputation and people come from afar to buy them," shop owner Pascal Bidron said."We see people walking past and looking at our display on Sunday afternoon, but we're closed then. We can't work seven days a week so that's why we installed the machine," he said.A cheesemonger in the eastern town of Pontarlier installed an automatic cheese distributor last year. ..

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