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Vending machines aren't just for Kit-Kats and Cokes anymore. You can find everything from fresh-baked pizza (made from scratch!) to live lobsters in vending machines around the world, Travel + Leisure reported.

Want a fresh pizza? In Italy, the "Let's Pizza" vending machine makes four types of pizza from scratch. The machine kneads the dough, spreads on sauce and cheese and toppings, and then bakes your pie in less than three minutes and has taken up residence in shopping malls and airports.

Got a craving for french fries? In Australia, there's a vending machine for that -- Hot Fresh Fries.

The Maine Lobster Game vending machine mixes tasty crustaceans with carnival game, letting "players" catch their own lobsters in a tank. For $3 you get 15 seconds to try and grab a lobster that you can either have cooked up in the restaurant or take to go.

In both California and Japan you can get fresh eggs from a vending machine, Travel + Leisure reported.

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When is a lobster not a lobster? When it's actually a langostino. And what's a langostino? Well sometimes is is a lobster (in Europe), sometimes it's a prawn (in Spain), and sometimes it's a crab.

And such is the reason why the people in Maine are a little more than angy that restaurants are selling langostinos as "lobsters." Senator Olympia Snowe from Maine wants the FDA to ban restaurants from calling langostinos on the menu, "lobster." According to Kristen Millar of the Maine Lobster Promotion Council, serving langostino as lobster is an "insult to Maine and to the lobster industry."

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