Changes: Garden Center fruit dispenser

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A fruit dispenser was a device that would hold and preserve fruit. The technology, available in 2015, was designed not only to promote good nutrition, but good manners as well. The McFly family had such a dispenser in their home in Hilldale.

The dispenser, located out of reach in the McFly kitchen, could only be used by voice command, and was programmed to respond only to authorized persons, and only then if the voice command was made correctly. Marty McFly Jr. was unable to get a snack from the dispenser merely by saying "Fruit!" or "Hey, fruit!", and had to add the universal "magic word" to his request. When he said, "Fruit, please," no matter how insincerely, the unit would lower from the ceiling of the kitchen. Marty Jr. then had to add "Thank you!" in order for the dispenser to open (or at least for it not to retract). Evidently, the programming was done in an effort to try to teach 17 year old Marty Jr. how to be polite; his sister, Marlene McFly, was able to use the dispenser without any special protocol.

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Back to the Future Part II

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-A '''fruit dispenser''' was a device that would hold and refrigerate fruit. The device would open by the voice command "Fruit please" and close by the voice command "Thank You".
+A '''fruit dispenser''' was a device that would hold and preserve fruit.  The technology, available in [[2015]], was designed not only to promote good nutrition, but good manners as well.  The [[McFly family]] had such a dispenser in their home in [[Hilldale]].
+The dispenser, located out of reach in the McFly kitchen, could only be used by voice command, and was programmed to respond only to authorized persons, and only then if the voice command was made correctly.  [[Marty McFly Jr.]] was unable to get a snack from the dispenser merely by saying "Fruit!" or "Hey, fruit!", and had to add the universal "magic word" to his request.  When he said, "Fruit, please," no matter how insincerely, the unit would lower from the ceiling of the kitchen.  Marty Jr. then had to add "Thank you!" in order for the dispenser to open (or at least for it not to retract).  Evidently, the programming was done in an effort to try to teach 17 year old Marty Jr. how to be polite; his sister, [[Marlene McFly]], was able to use the dispenser without any special protocol.
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