Just Another Vending Machine

Japan is the land of the vending machine. You can buy almost anything
from a vending machine, not just a soda. But, today I found out about a
new one. It is a millng machine for rice. In case you don't know what
that means, I took a quote from a site about rice to help you out.
"Milling removes each grain's hull to reveal the part of the rice plant
that eventually ends up in our mouths. Milling both the hull and bran
layers of the kernel renders so-called white rice; brown rice retains
the bran. "
Cool, huh. We took a 40kg sack of rice to this vending machine, dumped
it in a hopper, deposited our 400 yen ($4) and selected our choice -
white rice. After alot of noise and rattling, white rice started pouring
into our bag! We will eat this tomorrow for lunch at church.
By the way, this sack would last the average Japanese family about one
month. It would last our family about 1 year. It is produced on about
1/8 of an acre.

posted by Norman @ 3:53 PM