Prayer Request The "100s OF FLAVORZ!1" soda machines at fast food restaurants suck venomous cock - Page 3

**RealSNR** · 02-10-2016, 04:44 PM

Yeah, grape-flavored Dr. Pepper is hard to come by in most grocery stores (if they sell it at all) but what's the point of having all these flavors of soda if every single last one of them tastes like chilled Malaysian urine?

It all comes out of the same shitty nozzle. You can totally taste other shit in there if you just get water from the machine. Fountain pop isn't supposed to taste like half-flat made-from-concentrate water sludge.

Is this some sort of cost-saving measure on Coca Cola's part? By loading up a regular soda fountain with over 100 different flavors of goat rectum juice, does it somehow save the fast food place money? It would seem to me that if you buy larger syrup canisters (if that's how that stuff even works) in only 5-10 different varieties, it would be much cheaper. If I'm right, then that leaves zero good reason for fast food places to use these machines.

If this trend doesn't slow down, I may have to commit acts of terrorism on these machines. I don't want to, but these restaurants leave me no choice.

**Rain Man** · 02-10-2016, 05:57 PM

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Originally Posted by srvy

I dont bother with the fountain drinks they generally taste bad. Almost all now have the refrigerated bottled soda pop and water in the 22 or 22 oz its behind the checkout.

You can't get refills with the bottles, though. With the self-serve fountain you can loiter in a restaurant all day. I'm big on loitering.

jspchief · 02-10-2016, 06:01 PM

Added bonus is the touch screen is a one stop shop for infectious diseases. Those screens always look disgusting.

**loochy** · 02-10-2016, 06:05 PM

I completely disagree with you. I will purposely go to a restaurant because it has one of these. I love me some orange coke zero.

tk13 · 02-10-2016, 06:08 PM

It's funny, a friend of mine and I had this same discussion just the other day. He hates them. I don't mind them, but I usually make my selection then let it run for a few seconds. Sometimes when you don't it'll taste cherry or orange or whatever garbage the person before me picked.

So from that end, it is kind of wasteful... and you have to wait longer because two people can't use it at the same time. I'd be curious to see how much money Coke is saving by using those.

Eleazar · 02-10-2016, 06:45 PM

I think they are a reaction to the fact that people order water far more often than they used to at fast food places, and are drinking less soda in general. They have to make it more interesting than Coke, Diet, Sprite, Dr. Pepper to get the sale.

**Baby Lee** · 02-10-2016, 06:46 PM

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Originally Posted by tk13

It's funny, a friend of mine and I had this same discussion just the other day. He hates them. I don't mind them, but I usually make my selection then let it run for a few seconds. Sometimes when you don't it'll taste cherry or orange or whatever garbage the person before me picked.

So from that end, it is kind of wasteful... and you have to wait longer because two people can't use it at the same time. I'd be curious to see how much money Coke is saving by using those.

At the wholesale-->retail level, ie at a restaurant, a fountain costs about a nickel per 16oz cup in terms of water, filtration, refrigeration, carbonation, and syrup.

The cup itself is usually the most expensive part of the transaction.

That said, maybe it's because they're relatively new, but the two places I've been to near me with uni-fountains are pretty darned clean and reliable. But then I just go with either plain Coke Classic, Dr. Pepper or Barqs. Also, each place has 2 separate units so waiting is rarely a problem. let the slow pokes have one machine and the veterans take the other.

vailpass · 02-10-2016, 06:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Saccopoo

When's the last time you've been to a movie theater?

Do you even Ipic bro?

ILChief · 02-10-2016, 06:57 PM

The orange lemonade is good

**Bugeater** · 02-10-2016, 07:06 PM

I've only used them a few times and I got regular Coke each time as that is all I really drink. I don't recall it tasting abnormal any of the times but I'm not a fan of fountain pop to begin with.

My order of Coke preferences are as follows:

1. Mexican Coke in those old school glass bottles
2. Canned Coke
3. Plastic bottle Coke
4. Fountain Coke

scho63 · 02-10-2016, 07:24 PM

I drink
-Powerade Zero
-Simply Lemonade
-Beer
-Wine
-Water chilled

I think I've drank less than a 25 sodas in the last 10 years. I'll drink a ginger ale once in a rare while and I like Pellegrino Italian Soda or Stewarts Root Beer or Creme soda.

WeathermanKumke · 02-10-2016, 07:38 PM

Peach Sprite is the best. I don't know what the **** your talking about.

**Baby Lee** · 02-10-2016, 07:44 PM

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Originally Posted by WeathermanKumke

Peach Sprite is the best. I don't know what the **** your talking about.

How does that compare to Peach Nehi? I used to love Peach Nehi

**TimBone** · 02-10-2016, 07:53 PM

I knew those machines were gonna suck balls, the moment I saw them.

I'll tell you why. At a gas station, I frequent near my home, one of their fountain options for years was lipton tea. One day, they upped and changed it to coke zero. That was a year and a half ago. To this day, if you get coke zero from the nozzle that used to dispense the lipton tea, it taste like moldy tea flavored coke zero.

I knew those damn machines would have the same problem. **** them straight to hell.

**TimBone** · 02-10-2016, 07:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

How does that compare to Peach Nehi? I used to love Peach Nehi

I also thought of you as a Faygo man.

**Baby Lee** · 02-10-2016, 08:02 PM

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Originally Posted by TimBone

I also thought of you as a Faygo man.

I'm 99.9% Coke Classic, occasional Dr.P. or a decent root beer. But they had Peach Nehi floats at camp. Awesome.

Never even seen a Faygo in person, maybe they carry them at your Neo-Nazi meetings?

02-10-2016, 04:44 PM
RealSNR Special Teams ACE!!! Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Where the hell is SNR Casino cash: $2320208	The "100s OF FLAVORZ!1" soda machines at fast food restaurants suck venomous cock Yeah, grape-flavored Dr. Pepper is hard to come by in most grocery stores (if they sell it at all) but what's the point of having all these flavors of soda if every single last one of them tastes like chilled Malaysian urine? It all comes out of the same shitty nozzle. You can totally taste other shit in there if you just get water from the machine. Fountain pop isn't supposed to taste like half-flat made-from-concentrate water sludge. Is this some sort of cost-saving measure on Coca Cola's part? By loading up a regular soda fountain with over 100 different flavors of goat rectum juice, does it somehow save the fast food place money? It would seem to me that if you buy larger syrup canisters (if that's how that stuff even works) in only 5-10 different varieties, it would be much cheaper. If I'm right, then that leaves zero good reason for fast food places to use these machines. If this trend doesn't slow down, I may have to commit acts of terrorism on these machines. I don't want to, but these restaurants leave me no choice.
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tk13 ... Join Date: Nov 2001 Casino cash: $1942500	It's funny, a friend of mine and I had this same discussion just the other day. He hates them. I don't mind them, but I usually make my selection then let it run for a few seconds. Sometimes when you don't it'll taste cherry or orange or whatever garbage the person before me picked. So from that end, it is kind of wasteful... and you have to wait longer because two people can't use it at the same time. I'd be curious to see how much money Coke is saving by using those.
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Eleazar Beyond the Rapids Join Date: May 2003 Location: Langley, VA Casino cash: $-370000	I think they are a reaction to the fact that people order water far more often than they used to at fast food places, and are drinking less soda in general. They have to make it more interesting than Coke, Diet, Sprite, Dr. Pepper to get the sale.
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02-10-2016, 07:53 PM	#43
TimBone Mostly Ignored Join Date: Jul 2013 Casino cash: $8499985	I knew those machines were gonna suck balls, the moment I saw them. I'll tell you why. At a gas station, I frequent near my home, one of their fountain options for years was lipton tea. One day, they upped and changed it to coke zero. That was a year and a half ago. To this day, if you get coke zero from the nozzle that used to dispense the lipton tea, it taste like moldy tea flavored coke zero. I knew those damn machines would have the same problem. **** them straight to hell.
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