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Snacks are fine, but you don't have to be a food snob to be above getting your meals from a vending machine.

When we heard that Bamn!, an automat in New York, was opening, we gave it a mention just like so many other food-loving writers did. Was it the food of the future? As it turns out, it was the food of the past: a machine that was futuristic in the 1940's, stocked with food that is just plain "gross."

The New York Post hated it and judging by their (hilarious) review, it's a wonder that anyone can stomach the food there at all. The offerings, which include peanut-butter-and-jelly empanadas (sound suspiciously like Uncrustables gone horribly, horribly wrong) and Chicken "teriburgers," are "possibly the worst foodstuffs ever offered for human consumption outside a famine zone." Steve Cuozzo noted that he saw more people taking pictures than eating the food. Clearly they had already heard about the food.

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I grew up in the Midwest and have been on the West Coast for a long time, so I really have no experience with an automat, but I've definitely eaten through my share of vending machines. Work through lunch? Sure, lemme go gran a Diet Coke and a bag of Funyuns!

But New York's new Bamn! at 37 St. Mark's Place (between 2nd and 3rd Aves.) is bigger, better, and badder ass than a regular vending machine. It serves real food, and hot, too: burgers, mac & cheese, pizza, chicken strips, grilled cheese, hot dogs, and pork buns. Most importantly, as their website says, it is served 25 hours a day.

Is Bamn! God's gift to gourmets-on-the-go? The boys from Slice NY and A Hamburger aToday made a recent visit, but according to Adam, Bamn! isn't all that: "I wish I could say 'hot and delicious treat,' but the offerings at the newly opened automat Bamn just didn't stack up."

[via: Slice NY]