Crab Vending Machine

We’ve all heard of getting crabs from a toilet seat… Well if you happen to be stopping by Nanjing, China — you can now get crabs from a vending machine.

Live Shanghai Hairy Crabs [seriously] are lined up neatly in their spiral chamber, and kept in a state of hibernation at 5°C (41°F). They await catatonically for their number to be called, until they finally descend into the basket of death.

Warning: The following video is mind-numbingly surreal.

[via Serious Eats]

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