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The News, Portsmouth

Our reporter Joe Buncle tried one of the city's pizza vending machines

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00:00 [Multiple people talking]

00:19 So it's February the 9th, which is International Pizza Day.

00:23 Pizza is in demand. We're here to try pizza that's on demand

00:27 from a vending machine in Portsmouth City Centre. Now like lots of people I

00:31 absolutely love pizza. I've never had it from a vending machine

00:33 before. Now almost exactly a year ago I tried the Portsmouth Special Pizza

00:38 which contained banana, madras sauce and pineapple.

00:42 Now we're not going to go for anything that wacky today but let's see how pizza

00:45 tastes from a vending machine rather than a kitchen.

00:49 Right so here we are at the vending machine. Now I can't claim to understand

00:52 how this is going to work but let's give it a go. The instructions we've got here

00:56 'touch me I'll feed you 24/7' okay. Margherita mutiny.

01:02 It's all veg. Hot pizza okay.

01:07 Confirm.

01:10 Every 10 pizzas you buy next one is free. We'll see how the first one goes.

01:24 Okay so I've just ordered the pizza we've got for the Margherita mutiny.

01:28 Something quite simple so that we can compare it to

01:31 I suppose a normal pizza that doesn't come from a machine. So

01:34 it doesn't really tell us how long it's going to wait but we've got this bar

01:37 here coming along.

01:40 I'm guessing two, three minutes. Well I can't smell any pizza

01:47 but I'm guessing all the magic is happening in here. I can't even begin to

01:53 imagine how a machine could make a pizza to be

01:56 honest. I can't see anything going on but I can only assume there's a

02:03 Italian guy in there somewhere.

02:06 Okay so pizza's here let's have a look.

02:12 Okay I wouldn't say it looks like it's come from a machine although

02:18 I'm sure a proper pizza chef would have delicately placed these

02:22 around the pizza a bit more. But anyway it looks great. It's not sliced I don't

02:26 know how I was expecting that. We've got a little wooden knife though

02:28 so let's see if I can cut it. First impressions I mean it looks like a

02:34 normal pizza which is good. Definitely doesn't look like it was

02:38 made in a machine. It smells pretty good too.

02:42 And you know bonus points for not being a plastic knife.

02:51 Yeah yeah it just came from the machine. We were trying it out.

02:55 Yeah I mean it doesn't look like it's made from a machine.

02:58 Well let's find out. Enjoy it.

03:10 Is it nice? Yeah I mean I would never know that was from a machine. I'd never known

03:13 for a vending machine to be a pizza. I have heard bad reviews

03:18 about food in this but I was either in Portsmouth so it's

03:22 gonna be the best. Yeah definitely. It's a nice part. I'm not actually a

03:26 Pumby girl. I'm a new part I saw but I thought I was in Pumby.

03:33 What would you give that? 8 out of 10. 8 out of 10? Yeah very nice.

03:39 Cool I will definitely have to try that sometime then.

03:43 Yeah I mean I don't really know what I was expecting.

03:46 But yeah I mean it looks handmade. It tastes

03:51 it's nice and hot. It doesn't taste any more artificial than a normal

03:55 pizza. So I enjoyed it but I've got to be honest

03:59 I'm not a fussy eater. So more so than saying it was the best

04:02 pizza I ever had I would say I wouldn't be able to tell it came from a machine.

04:06 There is an argument to be made that maybe

04:09 now it's too easy to get some pizza when I suddenly fancy it.

04:13 But you know you've got delivery and stuff like that anyway.

04:17 So I would say I recommend it if you're interested.

04:20 If you're waiting for a train you've probably got that 10 minute window where

04:22 you can run across the road and have a pizza in your hands. So that's

04:26 a good thing in my books.

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