Column & photos by Frank Hyman
Buttercup gives the champagne cork a good pop to get the food to come out. Pellets work much better than mash with the vending machine.
Aren’t vending machines great? You pop in some change, poke a button and a well-balanced, healthy snack drops out — well, a snack of some kind! At least you can rest assured that unlike mints in a bowl at a restaurant’s check-out desk, no one has pawed all over them.