|
Endymion FRS MK1 posted:Somehow my brain decided to remember that Diesel energy drinks were a thing when I was in high school and that I never got to try them. Has anyone else? Yeah like once or so. Tastes like the name implies. ----------------
|
#
?
Nov 29, 2021 16:34
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 11, 2024 08:55 |
|
|
Speaking of ginger soda, the new Mt. Dew is interesting. I like it but I can tell this one ain't gonna be for everyone.
FrankeeFrankFrank on 07:55 May 03, 2015 posted:sometimes i rub Fabreeze on my hands and now my hands are very dry. FrankeeFrankFrank on 04:55 Apr 10, 2017 posted:I still believe in Second Winter. Put this in your sig if you also believe in that and that it is real and not fake like the others say.
|
|
#
?
Nov 30, 2021 00:17
|
|
Oel ngati kameie Los Ingobernables de Onsite BYOB 
|
that stuff took my mouth on the wildest ride it's ever been on with a soda i still don't know if it was good or bad like a week later
|
|
#
?
Dec 1, 2021 01:35
|
|
|
It starts off with an intriguing flavor but quickly starts to just taste like pool water.
|
|
#
?
Dec 1, 2021 11:45
|
|
|
most of the new wave of Dews have been slightly off-putting in ways i find difficult to articulate. feels very much a part of some sinister occult experiment.
----------------
|
|
#
?
Dec 1, 2021 18:08
|
|
|
I tried the coke zero with coffee and really enjoyed it. I'll probably buy a few more cans.
|
|
#
?
Dec 1, 2021 23:39
|
|
|
i pretty much hate coke but i love coffee and the coke with coffee definitely splits the difference into a drink i really enjoy.
|
|
#
?
Dec 2, 2021 04:13
|
|
|
I love vanilla pepsi
|
|
#
?
Dec 2, 2021 09:17
|
|
|
My local taco time got rid of their coke freestyle machine. I’m quite upset.
|
|
#
?
Dec 3, 2021 00:59
|
|
|
Rahu posted:My local taco time got rid of their coke freestyle machine. I’m quite upset. I haven't seen a freestyle machine since The Before Times.
|
|
#
?
Dec 3, 2021 07:50
|
|
|
uber_stoat posted:most of the new wave of Dews have been slightly off-putting in ways i find difficult to articulate. feels very much a part of some sinister occult experiment. Which ones? The only one in recent memory I don’t like is the gingerbread one, everything else was just normal fruity soda
|
|
#
?
Dec 3, 2021 17:44
|
|
|
WITCHCRAFT posted:I haven't seen a freestyle machine since The Before Times. I saw one that has a QR code thing where you can use your phone instead of touching the screen. No idea how it works though
|
|
#
?
Dec 5, 2021 02:54
|
|
|
FCKGW posted:I saw one that has a QR code thing where you can use your phone instead of touching the screen. No idea how it works though Probably super annoyingly and takes way longer but some people for whatever reason want to do everything with their phone now even if it's worse. It's probably meant for people who don't want to use a touch screen a bunch of other people have used that day, but I would think those are the same people who would just wash their hands after and probably have sanitizer on them too.
|
|
#
?
Dec 5, 2021 07:13
|
|
|
Twenty Four posted:Probably super annoyingly and takes way longer but some people for whatever reason want to do everything with their phone now even if it's worse. Yeah it only popped up during COVID for obvious reasons. I’m just curious how it would get the selection data from your phone back to the freestyle machine. Unless there a camera on the thing I’m not aware of? Bluetooth?
|
|
#
?
Dec 6, 2021 16:33
|
|
|
FCKGW posted:Yeah it only popped up during COVID for obvious reasons. Simplest solution is the easiest, they're hooked up to the internet. Scan a QR code, go to a website attached to the machine, and it can even report what flavors are out. Added bonus of it being able to gather all that hot hot consumer data.
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2021 04:48
|
|
|
pointlessone posted:Simplest solution is the easiest, they're hooked up to the internet. Scan a QR code, go to a website attached to the machine, and it can even report what flavors are out. Added bonus of it being able to gather all that hot hot consumer data. Huh, that looks like it. The machines have a embedded web server that deploys the drinks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcRxRgovlSo
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2021 05:27
|
|
|
I love the Freestyle machine. They all have had QR codes by default since the beginning (unless the place renting it asked them to turn it off), although you used to have to look for it a bit. They recently made it more obvious.
FrankeeFrankFrank on 07:55 May 03, 2015 posted:sometimes i rub Fabreeze on my hands and now my hands are very dry. FrankeeFrankFrank on 04:55 Apr 10, 2017 posted:I still believe in Second Winter. Put this in your sig if you also believe in that and that it is real and not fake like the others say.
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2021 06:06
|
|
|
Rick posted:I love the Freestyle machine. They all have had QR codes by default since the beginning (unless the place renting it asked them to turn it off), although you used to have to look for it a bit. They recently made it more obvious. I thought the freestyle machines were a neat novelty when I first saw one years ago, and the ton of options are nice. Obviously this is not meant as anything against you friend, and I am sure I will get "shut up old timer" or something from someone, but, bolding the part that I don't get and makes me "old" I guess... Searching through menus on a screen to find a code to scan so you can upload it online, probably make an account, so you can sort through menus on a different screen on a phone to get a soda sounds way more annoying then, say, pressing my cup against the lever underneath the coke nozzle which requires no contact, then maybe topping it off with a little cherry coke or whatever if I am feeling crazy.
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2021 11:52
|
|
|
Twenty Four posted:I thought the freestyle machines were a neat novelty when I first saw one years ago, and the ton of options are nice. Obviously this is not meant as anything against you friend, and I am sure I will get "shut up old timer" or something from someone, but, bolding the part that I don't get and makes me "old" I guess... As a fellow old, I am seen in this post. I, the consumer, don't actually want 87 choices in this particular scenario, especially when it involves me having to mash my hamfist repeatedly to get things to work, only to discover that 45% of the choices are out of stock at the moment.
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2021 15:07
|
|
|
Beef Of Ages posted:As a fellow old, I am seen in this post. I, the consumer, don't actually want 87 choices in this particular scenario, especially when it involves me having to mash my hamfist repeatedly to get things to work, only to discover that 45% of the choices are out of stock at the moment. Thanks! I'm probably not terribly old by some standards but the mentality is there, and I know it's not just me (maybe my parents are rubbing off on me). I'm willing to take heat for it, but I think it's more of a commentary on things in general then a soda machine. It's fun and interesting at first but typically I just want a soda or whatever.
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2021 16:18
|
|
|
no you are both right those freestyle machines loving suck just give me an ice cold coke I don't want to dig through menus using the world's shittiest resistive touch screen.
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2021 17:25
|
|
|
The Wendy's app let's me order Freestyle drinks through it and pick them up in the drive thru. I agree in general on the machines, feel like an absolute jackass digging through lovely touch menus if there's people lined up behind me, like in the before times. Through the app though, it's kind of cool. Even if I end up getting the same thing when I do bother with it.
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2021 21:08
|
|
|
Twenty Four posted:I thought the freestyle machines were a neat novelty when I first saw one years ago, and the ton of options are nice. Obviously this is not meant as anything against you friend, and I am sure I will get "shut up old timer" or something from someone, but, bolding the part that I don't get and makes me "old" I guess... Oh you're absolutely right, it's a ton of steps to do the QR code thing: setting up a coke account itself has been a major to minor pain in the rear end depending on the era, and the apps were always fairly large for what little is in there, and then setting the beverage up isn't the most intuitive thing on Earth. And then back when this used to take a while to make, you looked like an idiot going through the menu on a screen that's really lovely even if it's clean, to find the QR reader and then get it to successfully read your code with what was a dirty camera half the time, when the guy waiting behind you is just going to walk up and press "COKE" and be done with it. The only reason to do it is you can do mixes on the phone that you can't very easily do on the machine. You can basically control (albeit in rather limited increments) how much of a particular flavor you are including in a drink, or make combinations of any 3 flavors on the machine. So if you want to make a two part. raspberry Fanta, one part cherry Disani, and three parts Barq's cream soda (if the machine has these cartridges installed) you can totally do it. And then you can give the QR code to your friend and say "check this dumb poo poo I made out." I basically only use it to try to make good tasting, low calorie diet drinks that I use whenever I'm in my methadonesque phase of trying to quit drinking soda and also going to the movies.
FrankeeFrankFrank on 07:55 May 03, 2015 posted:sometimes i rub Fabreeze on my hands and now my hands are very dry. FrankeeFrankFrank on 04:55 Apr 10, 2017 posted:I still believe in Second Winter. Put this in your sig if you also believe in that and that it is real and not fake like the others say.
|
|
#
?
Dec 7, 2021 21:30
|
|
|
Freestyle is the only place I’ve been able to get Sprite Zero with Ginger in almost 2 years, so it’s got that going for it
|
|
#
?
Dec 8, 2021 00:29
|
|
|
as far as I recall part of the creation of the freestyle was really meant for bartenders so they could have consistent mixed drink pours in a custom machine but then coke bought the tech and away we go
|
|
#
?
Dec 8, 2021 05:23
|
|
|
Some of the gas stations around here have a flavor shot type thing on the soda fountains. So you can add a squirt of lemon/lime/cherry/vanilla to whatever regular soda you are getting. If they had a few more flavors (like someone above said, I would put ginger into hella drinks) it would be an... analog? version of a freestyle machine. That would be neat.
|
|
#
?
Dec 8, 2021 06:43
|
|
|
WITCHCRAFT posted:Some of the gas stations around here have a flavor shot type thing on the soda fountains. So you can add a squirt of lemon/lime/cherry/vanilla to whatever regular soda you are getting. If they had a few more flavors (like someone above said, I would put ginger into hella drinks) it would be an... analog? version of a freestyle machine. That would be neat. Here they have them at Quik Trip, 7-11 and Circle K and at various truck stops (some where they have like six flavors!) . But the universal problem is that the people who work at these places (and who could blame them) barely clean the main nozzles as is, you aren't going to find many places where they bother to clean the little flavor tubes very regularly so you end up getting like 10 squirts in one press or none at all (if they've even been filled), or for 7-11 machines where it's all theoretically automated before the drink gets to the part where it dispenses, you get a drink that is like 90% foam because the c02 and water comes out way faster than the soda syrup trying to make its way through the dirty lemon flavoring tube.
FrankeeFrankFrank on 07:55 May 03, 2015 posted:sometimes i rub Fabreeze on my hands and now my hands are very dry. FrankeeFrankFrank on 04:55 Apr 10, 2017 posted:I still believe in Second Winter. Put this in your sig if you also believe in that and that it is real and not fake like the others say.
|
|
#
?
Dec 8, 2021 06:57
|
|
|
Freestyle machines are the only way I can get my cherry diet Dr Pepper so go kick rocks old man
|
|
#
?
Dec 8, 2021 06:58
|
|
|
Rick posted:the guy waiting behind you is just going to walk up and press "COKE" and be done with it. That's me, maybe press one other thing really quick because I guess that's what I am supposed to be doing right now and it happens to be right in front of me, but I definitely don't want to be the person making everyone late for their movie or just getting the hell out of the store or whatever, not to mention deal with all that other mentioned stuff for a soda Nikumatic posted:as far as I recall part of the creation of the freestyle was really meant for bartenders so they could have consistent mixed drink pours in a custom machine but then coke bought the tech and away we go Now if I could hit the "double or triple shot of whisky" button, I'm down but it still would just be me hitting the coke and whisky buttons, not trying to make the world's most elaborate take on a long island. FCKGW posted:Freestyle machines are the only way I can get my cherry diet Dr Pepper so go kick rocks old man
|
|
#
?
Dec 8, 2021 12:51
|
|
|
I'm not a fan of the Freestyle machines. Mainly because I don't care about doing flavor combinations and just get a regular drink which always come off tasting a little bit off from non-Freestyle.
|
|
#
?
Dec 8, 2021 23:44
|
|
|
Diet grapefruit soda just doesn’t exist any more, does it?
|
|
#
?
Dec 19, 2021 14:20
|
|
|
WithoutTheFezOn posted:Diet grapefruit soda just doesn’t exist any more, does it? Gonna need that Squirt Zero or whatever.
|
|
#
?
Dec 19, 2021 14:29
|
|
|
Yeah but that doesn’t actually exist. I’ve been keeping an eye out for a couple of years.
|
|
#
?
Dec 19, 2021 14:56
|
|
|
Ting is really good grapefruit soda, not sure if it’s available where you are?
|
|
#
?
Dec 19, 2021 15:25
|
|
|
WithoutTheFezOn posted:Yeah but that doesn’t actually exist. I’ve been keeping an eye out for a couple of years. It does in random places, or if you want to spend egregious sums of money: https://www.truegether.com/listing.html?id=USER.e766ad0b-a5a1-4b3d-a90c-eb960e153f8b
|
|
#
?
Dec 19, 2021 16:03
|
|
|
I haven't tried this myself, but Zevia cream soda is pretty dang great for a zero cal soda, and it looks like they make a grapefruit too. Their tool is showing that it's stocked in Natural Grocers and Sprouts by me. https://www.zevia.com/collections/soda/products/grapefruit-citrus
|
|
#
?
Dec 19, 2021 16:11
|
|
|
WithoutTheFezOn posted:Diet grapefruit soda just doesn’t exist any more, does it? i can still get Fresca zero semi-regularly here. ----------------
|
|
#
?
Dec 19, 2021 16:49
|
|
|
Torquemada posted:Ting is really good grapefruit soda, not sure if it’s available where you are? I’ll have to look for that Zevia.
|
|
#
?
Dec 19, 2021 23:57
|
|
|
Beef Of Ages posted:Gonna need that Squirt Zero or whatever. it's actually just piss zero
|
|
#
?
Dec 23, 2021 19:57
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 11, 2024 08:55 |
|
|
I still see Fresca on the shelves of most grocers. Polar has 1 liters of diet grapefruit, as well as diet dry orange and a half n half. one half is diet grapefruit I forget what the other half is, some kind of diet citrus. I buy their diet tonic water and have that with a slice of lime now and then. very refreshing, even (especially?) without the gin. I don't think polar is a national brand but I've seen it in several parts of northeast US
|
|
#
?
Dec 28, 2021 05:10
|
|