This is a Barbecue Vending Machine

Jones Bar-B-Q is the heart of Kansas City-style barbecue. The Jones sisters, how have operated it for more than thirty years, have built their business around take-out. So they've made a fairly smooth transition into the contactless delivery that is prized during our pandemic era. Atlas Obscura reports that they recently installed a vending machine:

“We got a pop vending machine, and I looked at it and thought maybe we could put food in,” Jones says. “The vendor couldn’t believe it when I first asked about putting barbecue in a vending machine.”

The machine is stocked daily with complete meals:

The burnt ends at Jones Bar-B-Q are one of the seven items available from the vending machine. Alongside chicken wings, turkey, and rib tips, they’re stocked between 5 and 10 a.m. as they come off a smoker sitting next to a big pile of hickory wood. Jones labels each clamshell package with a hand-written description on masking tape. The sandwiches come with a small cup of sauce and sweet barbecue beans, potato salad, or coleslaw. Stacked high inside a soft white bun, the smoky, charred burnt ends are tender, moist, and taste like meat candy.

It makes me hungry just to read that description!