I'm sure it's just a software thing, because even with the flavor mix-ins, they didn't give you every possible combination at any I've personally used.
Click Coke, you get Coke, Diet Coke, Coke Zero, and then, like, Vanilla, Cherry, Lemon, Lime, etc flavors. Click Sprite and now the only flavor options are Orange and Cherry. Why the hell can I not have vanilla sprite? Why are all the other soda options not also a mix-in flavor option? Make it make sense!
Ideally, I should be able to light up every single option at once and have the ultimate blend of HFCS possible with just one go at the machine.
I'm pretty sure you used to be able to do that with an app. I don't know if it's still a thing, but you could at one point create & save a ratio of a bunch of drinks, scan a QR on the screen, and pour. I think you could share them too?
Sigh... Your supposed to let it run for a second when you switch drinks. Noone wants to drink homeopathic Fanta, or I-Cant-Believe-Its-Not Coke with lime.
I was a bit of an amateur mixologist as a child, and the top machine was my pallet.
But what was more, the corner store gas station that was down the street from my childhood home had multiple machines, each with 4 or 5 different drink options.
Years later, a friend of mine worked there as a summer job and told the friend group to avoid the fountain drinks so we did, and probably all still do.
Years later, a friend of mine worked there as a summer job and told the friend group to avoid the fountain drinks so we did, and probably all still do.
Fountain drink dispensers just don’t get cleaned. I worked at a fast food restaurant for 3 years; I think I saw someone go after the ice maker once. The nozzles get soaked overnight, but the inside might as well as been a black box.
I bought an old classic soda dispenser and I can tell you that no matter how much you clean the root beer spout, you will always taste root beer if you switch out the drink to coke.
Same goes for coke to sprite. You can taste the coke, it's just not as bad as the root beer.
So those old soda dispensers are supposed to be broken down and cleaned every couple of days. When I worked at a restaurant we had a service contact with Coca-Cola to do it. I worked at a TGIChillibees so it's not like the maintenance contract was a big deal. Smaller family owned restaurants probably can't afford it, and don't take the time to do it.
What I'm saying is, that soda machine may have gone years without being cleaned. There was likely some syrup residue caked in the plumbing, not unlike cholesterol in your arteries.
I tried bleach, vinegar, a bunch of different enzymes. Just ended up giving up and buying a whole new dispenser and spout. Essentially was contaminated from the inside out.
I don't want my cola mixing with Sprite in the drink cloaca! I just want my fries and greasy burger with a crisp white sprite you damn kids don't understand!
54 Comments
s@piefed.world · 128 pts · 294d
Coca-Cloaca
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 294d
Utterly disgusting, take my upvote.
ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world · 10 pts · 293d
Cloaca-Cola
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 293d
That sounds like a furry-branded cola.
(Furry artists should be more embracing of the cloaca)
ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world · 3 pts · 293d
We need more... Birdies. Featherfolk?
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 293d
And reptiles, sharks, etc.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 293d
🎶
Its the Cola!
Cola-Cloaca!
Donald Trump says it's hot like Ivanka!
Cherry, Lime, Passion, there's no need to ration
At the Cooooo-Laaaaa...
Drink what you love!
🎶
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca · 42 pts · 293d
It's not unholy, it's just less holy. There is still one hole.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 293d
Holesome
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 29 pts · 294d
How the fuck do you make a suicide with the cloaca?
phdepressed@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 294d
Instead of levers you have to choose on the screen.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 14 pts · 294d
I'm sure it's just a software thing, because even with the flavor mix-ins, they didn't give you every possible combination at any I've personally used.
Click Coke, you get Coke, Diet Coke, Coke Zero, and then, like, Vanilla, Cherry, Lemon, Lime, etc flavors. Click Sprite and now the only flavor options are Orange and Cherry. Why the hell can I not have vanilla sprite? Why are all the other soda options not also a mix-in flavor option? Make it make sense!
Ideally, I should be able to light up every single option at once and have the ultimate blend of HFCS possible with just one go at the machine.
FluffMongo@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 294d
I've only used one of these abominations once, but I got vanilla sprite! It's possible!
knightly@pawb.social · 4 pts · 294d
I want to hack one of these machines so I can dial in a precise and repeatable mix. =3
randomblock1@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 293d
I'm pretty sure you used to be able to do that with an app. I don't know if it's still a thing, but you could at one point create & save a ratio of a bunch of drinks, scan a QR on the screen, and pour. I think you could share them too?
Bahnd@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 293d
Sigh... Your supposed to let it run for a second when you switch drinks. Noone wants to drink homeopathic Fanta, or I-Cant-Believe-Its-Not Coke with lime.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 293d
Wrong.
It's called swamp water, and as kids we loved it. Mixem all up!
i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 293d
That is a lot better than what we called them: a suicide.
Swamp water is the name of a regional beverage where I am.
chaogomu@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 293d
I was a bit of an amateur mixologist as a child, and the top machine was my pallet.
But what was more, the corner store gas station that was down the street from my childhood home had multiple machines, each with 4 or 5 different drink options.
Years later, a friend of mine worked there as a summer job and told the friend group to avoid the fountain drinks so we did, and probably all still do.
andros_rex@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 293d
Fountain drink dispensers just don’t get cleaned. I worked at a fast food restaurant for 3 years; I think I saw someone go after the ice maker once. The nozzles get soaked overnight, but the inside might as well as been a black box.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 294d
Hundreds of feet of uncleanable moldy tubes vs. one easily cleanable opening.
PwnTra1n@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 293d
There’s just as many moldy tubes just less moldy nozzles, and less doesn’t mean 0 now
jaschen306@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 293d
I bought an old classic soda dispenser and I can tell you that no matter how much you clean the root beer spout, you will always taste root beer if you switch out the drink to coke.
Same goes for coke to sprite. You can taste the coke, it's just not as bad as the root beer.
SippyCup@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 293d
So those old soda dispensers are supposed to be broken down and cleaned every couple of days. When I worked at a restaurant we had a service contact with Coca-Cola to do it. I worked at a TGIChillibees so it's not like the maintenance contract was a big deal. Smaller family owned restaurants probably can't afford it, and don't take the time to do it.
jaschen306@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 293d
Ya, I got sick of cleaning it that it just became a soda water dispenser. Lol
SippyCup@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 293d
What I'm saying is, that soda machine may have gone years without being cleaned. There was likely some syrup residue caked in the plumbing, not unlike cholesterol in your arteries.
ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world · 2 pts · 293d
Makes sense. Root beer has a really specific, pretty strong taste. So does coke, but not in the same manner.
jaschen306@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 293d
I tried bleach, vinegar, a bunch of different enzymes. Just ended up giving up and buying a whole new dispenser and spout. Essentially was contaminated from the inside out.
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 293d
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 293d
People I met who worked at a dessert factory said “no one cleans the ice cream machine because it smells bad when you open it”
Not to say they shouldn’t be shutdown but I bet mold is more common than people think.
Ardyssian@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 293d
Heh - Cloaca Cola
i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 293d
I can taste when they haven't cleaned the nozzles for a very long time. I try not to think about how moldy they are even when I can't taste it.
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 293d
i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 293d
Yum
JizzmasterD@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 293d
I don’t even care. The lime-flavoured Diet Coke allows me to transcend the vastness of space and time in a trance-like state.
Yummers.
TomMasz@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 294d
I regret reading this.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 293d
The cloaca is the orifice of champions and I will not stand for this cloaca slander. Libel. Whatever.
I'm gonna sit for it because I'm shitting
Pistcow@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 294d
Its why I only Drink Dr. Pepper put of those multi-fountains because if you mix all drinks together it tastes like Dr. Pepper.
ToiletFlushShowerScream@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 293d
Don't be scared. Fancy machine won't hurt you. Let's get you to bed grandpa.
SippyCup@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 293d
I don't want my cola mixing with Sprite in the drink cloaca! I just want my fries and greasy burger with a crisp white sprite you damn kids don't understand!
Quadhammer@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 293d
Vanilla tainted everything
tempest@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 292d
My beef with them are three fold.
oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 293d
Oh hey one of my high school robotics mentors actually worked on designing those!
jawa22@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 293d
I made the housings for all of the training modules that got shipped around to Coca-Cola's techs.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 294d
The cloaca
Skanky@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 293d
The colaca
almost1337@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 293d
cloaca-cola
arrow74@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 293d
I enjoy the cloaca for the liquid choices and varities it provides.
My only complaint is the screen is never clean
lemming741@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 293d
The screen is the dirty part you're worried about?
arrow74@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 293d
Pretty much yeah. I know the nozzle is dirty, but that's just food stuff. Plus it's a problem even with the regular fountain.
The grime and snot on the screen comes from unknown sources. I don't like that
Gork@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 293d
Screen also has pretty poor responsiveness. Have to tap at it a few times to get it to register your input.
Credibly_Human@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 292d
I like me a drink cloaca. A human cloaca would have been much more egalitarian. Straight, gay, lesbian, you get the same shit.
richardmtanguay@lemmings.world · 2 pts · 293d
This leaves me to wonder why not every restaurant has switched to the Freestyle machine as yet. :-(
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 2 pts · 294d
Women's taints will get shorter as evolution brings them towards their own sexy cloaca and I'm all for it.
TommyJohnsFishSpot@lemy.lol · 6 pts · 294d
Based one hole solution enjoyer
jaschen306@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 292d
Ahhhhh, that makes sense.