Coffee or coffees

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Anonymous  #604070  Thu, 04 Dec 08 02:54 AM
Hi, I think in a vending machine, you can buy different types of snacks. Does this sentence with the word 'coffees' is natural since it is expected that you will see different types of coffee? Is 'different types of coffee' correct or does it have to be 'different types of coffees' in this sentence?

Vending machines sell many different products; mainly drinks, confectionaries, coffees and tissues.

Can I write like this? Using the phrase 'on the bottom' or 'at the bottom' confuses me sometimes.
 
Once you put money in the machine, you can get your snack at the bottom of the machine.
  
Mister Micawber  #604133  Thu, 04 Dec 08 03:59 AM
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Coffees is OK here, though I would choose coffeeAt, not on the bottom.

PS: Now that I think of it, I am more concerned with 'confectionaries'-- that sounds worse than coffees.
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