This piece is a reader-submitted "notes and queries" question from the Guardian's long-running series, in which readers pose everyday dilemmas for other readers to answer. This particular instalment asks what people wish vending machines sold, prompted by a reader who noted that in Germany you can buy sausages from a machine. It's a light-hearted consumer curiosity item rather than a hard news story, inviting readers to suggest products currently missing from vending machine offerings.

The question was submitted by Sybil Freestone from Oregon, and readers are invited to post their answers online or email them to the Guardian, with a selection due to be published the following Sunday. The article also references a related, separate reader question in the same series about the "true Breakfast of Champions", and includes a photograph of a 2021 promotional vending machine in London that dispensed free plant-based sausage rolls for National Sausage Roll Day.