To say Falcons feast frequently would be an understatement. From the beloved snack cart and the students who attack it every flex, to a sly lunch rendezvous to Chipotle, let’s face it, we Briar Woods High School kids love our food.

Thankfully, the one place we know where we can always get a quick snack flying down the halls are the vending machines—a few coins in hand and our taste bud’s deepest desires are typed in, confirmed, and satisfied in one swift drop.

This routine, having always been an easy task for students and a profitable pit stop for the school, lead to the implementation of a blazingly bright and colorful new healthy food and drink vending machine, known as “fresh! Healthy Vending.”

Eye-catching and better for the heart, Falcons switched up their daily route in an effort to hit this vendor over the old and outdated soda and candy vendors near the cafeteria entrance.

All is well with the hip health station aside from a few minor swiping glitches and the blatantly higher price of every item in the machine, when compared with that of the junk food factory vendors. An interestingly mixed group of feelings arises in the Falcon community out of these new developments.

Those who don’t have an extra 50 cents lying around on top of their one dollar bill are forced to resort to the unhealthy section or starve, while those who can afford to pay one dollar and 50 cents for a chewy bar tend to use their credit cards. These Falcons however, run into problems with the said to be faulty swipe bar for cards; while this may be a neat new feature never seen before in Briar vending machines, it is proving to be rather inadequate.

Despite its flaws, the health master machine stays standing, mouthing the words, “you know you want me,” to fast Falcons as we continue to zip down the hall. The machine spellbinds those with money to come closer, and convinces those without enough money to start bringing an extra 50 cents to school seeing as it’s the “healthy” thing to do. Where do you stand?