Comments on: Mechanized canteen?

Question: Mechanized canteen?

Krrrlson — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 14:18:30 -0800

What's a "mechanized canteen"?

By: caddis

caddis — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 14:32:33 -0800

By: nj_subgenius

nj_subgenius — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 14:47:21 -0800

Well, the term was used for a Russian kind of automat (threatening-looking building in St Petersburg...looks like a Soylent Green automat to me). Actually a hit on this phrase came up with an example as the Kirov Department Store & Public Feeding Complex on the UC Berkeley architectural archives but sadly no picture.

By: Krrrlson

Krrrlson — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 14:58:36 -0800

Yeah, I Googled it, but it didn't really say exactly what the building contained... so the consensus of two is that it's essentially a bunch of vending machines?

Public Feeding Complex... that sounds like just the place for a romantic date.

By: nj_subgenius

nj_subgenius — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 15:04:02 -0800

Or a hulking building with a bunch of big troughs you slipped kopeks into...and if you loitered or fell asleep you would be hit on the galava and become the next day's borscht. Maybe?

By: Miles Long

Miles Long — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 15:13:15 -0800

i'm guessing a kitchen on a truck.

Sounds army to me.

By: caddis

caddis — Sun, 12 Jun 2005 04:33:09 -0800

What was the context in which you found the term?

By: caddis

caddis — Sun, 12 Jun 2005 04:45:19 -0800

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