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| - The food machine had two large dials with selector needles on the front by which the codes for the various meals could be selected (one dial bore numbers, the other letters), and dispensed foil-wrapped blocks, served on paper plates, that looked like blocks of cheese or tofu, but when eaten tasted like whatever food had been programmed into the machine – such as bacon and eggs. (TV: "The Dead Planet") A food machine also stored water and milk, served in plastic sachets, which had to be replenished when empty because they weren't created by the machine. (TV: "The Edge of Destruction")
- During that serial's first episode, The Third Doctor got pissed when it ate his fifteen-pence and didn't dispense anything so he Venusian Akido'ed the hell out of it and filled his pockets with sweets which he later gleefully offered to everyone he met for the next three episodes of the story, sometimes taking several minutes of screen time as he and the other hashed out the various qualities of the assorted candies.
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| - During that serial's first episode, The Third Doctor got pissed when it ate his fifteen-pence and didn't dispense anything so he Venusian Akido'ed the hell out of it and filled his pockets with sweets which he later gleefully offered to everyone he met for the next three episodes of the story, sometimes taking several minutes of screen time as he and the other hashed out the various qualities of the assorted candies. Neil Gaiman, interviewed in Doctor Who Magazine (#23, page 17) said "I saw this episode when I was like seven and thought it was the funniest goddamn thing I'd ever seen. For years afterward, every time I saw a vending machine, I simply had to break into it and then run off, my fists full of chocolate bars." Tom Baker is also said to have been inspired by this moment and introduced the jelly babies his Fourth Doctor became known for. He later switched to handing out weirder English candies such as "cinnamon roundabouts," "tickling dingles," and "gleet runnies."
- The food machine had two large dials with selector needles on the front by which the codes for the various meals could be selected (one dial bore numbers, the other letters), and dispensed foil-wrapped blocks, served on paper plates, that looked like blocks of cheese or tofu, but when eaten tasted like whatever food had been programmed into the machine – such as bacon and eggs. (TV: "The Dead Planet") A food machine also stored water and milk, served in plastic sachets, which had to be replenished when empty because they weren't created by the machine. (TV: "The Edge of Destruction") The food machine rearranged molecular deconstructed fungus into whatever delicacy was ordered. (AUDIO: Upstairs) Food machines came with a booklet which had codes for the food they could create. The code for eggs and bacon was J62/L6 (TV: "The Dead Planet"), while the code for spaghetti bolognese was KD/NB. (PROSE: Venusian Lullaby) The machines became obsolete, though, and were replaced by kitchens. (HOMEVID: Shada, WC: Shada)
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