Brussels Vending Machine Dispenses French Fries and Goopy Mayonnaise

BreakTime Solutions is a Belgian corporation that's all about (as the name implies) finding solutions to marketing quandaries. And what's the latest consumer problem it's solved? Building something that will shoot hot french fries and globs of mayonnaise into one's eager hands during a drunken, late-night eating binge, to judge by the company's "Corner Chips" vending machine.

The unusual dispensary sits outside the sliding glass doors of a Brussels supermarket. The way it works is first you give up your week's diet plans, then drop in €2.50 and select a condiment, like lipid-hued mayo or ketchup. The machine does the rest, dropping frozen frites into steaming beef fat and dumping them into a paper satchel for the customer's eager retrieval. A tiny fork and foil packet of sauce comes wrapped up in a nice little box, like a birthday present for the seriously depressed.