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Bundaburg Ginger Beer, the The Soda Hunter reviews it...

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Cal I got at least a dozen cans of Dew in my fridge from a party I threw a few months ago. I dont touch the stuff wish I could pass it along. None of my regular guests drink it either. Probably eat through the can before they get drank.
Minor rant time, anyone notice places going to these new fancy touch screen soda fountains? Its like 77 flavors that all come out of the same spigot. So everytime you get a drink its "cherry vanilla diet grape (your pick here) very gross and annoying.

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Cal I got at least a dozen cans of Dew in my fridge from a party I threw a few months ago. I dont touch the stuff wish I could pass it along. None of my regular guests drink it either. Probably eat through the can before they get drank.
Minor rant time, anyone notice places going to these new fancy touch screen soda fountains? Its like 77 flavors that all come out of the same spigot. So everytime you get a drink its "cherry vanilla diet grape (your pick here) very gross and annoying.
Too bad you can't ship it to me! LOL
Some of the restaurants around here took those machines out because people took way too long deciding what flavors to use and resulting in really, really long lines of frustrated customers.

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Minor rant time, anyone notice places going to these new fancy touch screen soda fountains? Its like 77 flavors that all come out of the same spigot. So everytime you get a drink its "cherry vanilla diet grape (your pick here) very gross and annoying.
Who thought that was a good idea? Each drink having its own dispenser, while having less flavors, works much better.
what kind of eatery has 77 flavors of soda anyway
(unless you don't literally mean 77 flavors and that was hyperbole)

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Turin the Mad wrote:Diet Dr. Pepper.Diet? You truly are mad.
Dr Pepper is clearly the superior soda.
I — and a certain world renown zombie that frequents these parts — also prefer regular sugared Dr Pepper above all else.
I should warn you though, by regularly marinating our innards with Dr Pepper, when the Zombpocalypse comes, we will probably be eaten first.

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Manwolf wrote:Turin the Mad wrote:Diet Dr. Pepper.Diet? You truly are mad.
Dr Pepper is clearly the superior soda.
I — and a certain world renown zombie that frequents these parts — also prefer regular sugared Dr Pepper above all else.
I should warn you though, by regularly marinating our innards with Dr Pepper, when the Zombpocalypse comes, we will probably be eaten first.
I would rather be considered the ultimate in tastiness than something a zombie would spit out.

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Pan wrote:Minor rant time, anyone notice places going to these new fancy touch screen soda fountains? Its like 77 flavors that all come out of the same spigot. So everytime you get a drink its "cherry vanilla diet grape (your pick here) very gross and annoying.Who thought that was a good idea? Each drink having its own dispenser, while having less flavors, works much better.
what kind of eatery has 77 flavors of soda anyway
(unless you don't literally mean 77 flavors and that was hyperbole)
It's not hyperbole. They have a main corn sweetener, aspartame sweetener, and sucralose sweetener areas. Then flavor packs for every coke product (coke, new coke [read diet], barqs, sprite, high c, mellow yellow, powerade, minute maid), plus flavored syrups (cherry, chocolate, grape, lemon, lime) and an option for dasani (just filtered tap) which you can also add the syrup to.
Winds up being well over 100 options.

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Aniuś the Talewise wrote:Pan wrote:Minor rant time, anyone notice places going to these new fancy touch screen soda fountains? Its like 77 flavors that all come out of the same spigot. So everytime you get a drink its "cherry vanilla diet grape (your pick here) very gross and annoying.Who thought that was a good idea? Each drink having its own dispenser, while having less flavors, works much better.
what kind of eatery has 77 flavors of soda anyway
(unless you don't literally mean 77 flavors and that was hyperbole)
It's not hyperbole. They have a main corn sweetener, aspartame sweetener, and sucralose sweetener areas. Then flavor packs for every coke product (coke, new coke [read diet], barqs, sprite, high c, mellow yellow, powerade, minute maid), plus flavored syrups (cherry, chocolate, grape, lemon, lime) and an option for dasani (just filtered tap) which you can also add the syrup to.
Winds up being well over 100 options.
That's too way too many options for my simple adhd-addled mind to handle.

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I don't drink soda unless alcohol is in it, so not much, I hate Mt Dew, I'm pretty sure the Slurm episode of Futurama nailed where it comes from. I also saw almost all my brothers become obese and sedentary drinking it, I don't blame Mt Dew, but it doesn't help, which I find ironic considering how much caffeine my brothers brag is in it. "More then coffee" they say, "coffee is lousy with antioxidants, and Data the wookie Psylon likes to drink it" I say back, by that time the coffee vs Mt Dew debate is forgotten :-)

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Aniuś the Talewise wrote:Pan wrote:Minor rant time, anyone notice places going to these new fancy touch screen soda fountains? Its like 77 flavors that all come out of the same spigot. So everytime you get a drink its "cherry vanilla diet grape (your pick here) very gross and annoying.Who thought that was a good idea? Each drink having its own dispenser, while having less flavors, works much better.
what kind of eatery has 77 flavors of soda anyway
(unless you don't literally mean 77 flavors and that was hyperbole)
It's not hyperbole. They have a main corn sweetener, aspartame sweetener, and sucralose sweetener areas. Then flavor packs for every coke product (coke, new coke [read diet], barqs, sprite, high c, mellow yellow, powerade, minute maid), plus flavored syrups (cherry, chocolate, grape, lemon, lime) and an option for dasani (just filtered tap) which you can also add the syrup to.
Winds up being well over 100 options.
And contrary to Pan's statement the flavors don't mix. The Freestyle machine uses a whole series of technologies originally developed for the pharmaceutical manufacturing, compounding, and dispensing industry.
They don't need fiddly adjusting of the water, syrup, and CO2 mix, laborious cleaning (which way more places then you want to believe skimp on), tell Coke and the vendor what they're selling and what needs replacing, and (for the moment) draw customers in with flavors unavailable elsewhere.
They are better in every conceivable way than the old machines. Well, other then having a higher rental fee, but I've been told the total cost is less when accounting for waste, labor, etc.

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BigDTBone wrote:Aniuś the Talewise wrote:Pan wrote:Minor rant time, anyone notice places going to these new fancy touch screen soda fountains? Its like 77 flavors that all come out of the same spigot. So everytime you get a drink its "cherry vanilla diet grape (your pick here) very gross and annoying.Who thought that was a good idea? Each drink having its own dispenser, while having less flavors, works much better.
what kind of eatery has 77 flavors of soda anyway
(unless you don't literally mean 77 flavors and that was hyperbole)
It's not hyperbole. They have a main corn sweetener, aspartame sweetener, and sucralose sweetener areas. Then flavor packs for every coke product (coke, new coke [read diet], barqs, sprite, high c, mellow yellow, powerade, minute maid), plus flavored syrups (cherry, chocolate, grape, lemon, lime) and an option for dasani (just filtered tap) which you can also add the syrup to.
Winds up being well over 100 options.
And contrary to Pan's statement the flavors don't mix. The Freestyle machine uses a whole series of technologies originally developed for the pharmaceutical manufacturing, compounding, and dispensing industry.
They don't need fiddly adjusting of the water, syrup, and CO2 mix, laborious cleaning (which way more places then you want to believe skimp on), tell Coke and the vendor what they're selling and what needs replacing, and (for the moment) draw customers in with flavors unavailable elsewhere.
They are better in every conceivable way than the old machines. Well, other then having a higher rental fee, but I've been told the total cost is less when accounting for waste, labor, etc.
There is residue left over in the nozzle. You will never get just coke out of them. Ice makers and soda fountains are some of the equipment I review repair quotes for as part of my job. I know how filthy they are, which is why I avoid them mostly altogether.

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Minor rant time, anyone notice places going to these new fancy touch screen soda fountains? Its like 77 flavors that all come out of the same spigot. So everytime you get a drink its "cherry vanilla diet grape (your pick here) very gross and annoying.
There is one reason I like those dispensers - it means I can actually get straight club soda from a fast food restaurant, which is one of my favorite things. Otherwise, no one ever has plain club soda.
(I buy cans of club soda to drink at home, even without alcohol added to it. It's fantastic. Yes, I am aware that this makes me very strange for an American. Going to Europe was the best, because that's what they served you everywhere.)
Besides club soda, the best soda I've probably ever had was a cinnamon ginger beer; I think it may have been put out by Stoli. It was wonderful; I still look from time to time to see if they have it. They don't. :(
As for the more "normal" sodas, Dr. Pepper all the way. I grew up drinking gallons of it, so even though I really don't drink soda much at all anymore (maybe once a month or so at most), when I do, it's Dr. Pepper.

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Krensky wrote:There is residue left over in the nozzle. You will never get just coke out of them. Ice makers and soda fountains are some of the equipment I review repair quotes for as part of my job. I know how filthy they are, which is why I avoid them mostly altogether.BigDTBone wrote:Aniuś the Talewise wrote:Pan wrote:Minor rant time, anyone notice places going to these new fancy touch screen soda fountains? Its like 77 flavors that all come out of the same spigot. So everytime you get a drink its "cherry vanilla diet grape (your pick here) very gross and annoying.Who thought that was a good idea? Each drink having its own dispenser, while having less flavors, works much better.
what kind of eatery has 77 flavors of soda anyway
(unless you don't literally mean 77 flavors and that was hyperbole)
It's not hyperbole. They have a main corn sweetener, aspartame sweetener, and sucralose sweetener areas. Then flavor packs for every coke product (coke, new coke [read diet], barqs, sprite, high c, mellow yellow, powerade, minute maid), plus flavored syrups (cherry, chocolate, grape, lemon, lime) and an option for dasani (just filtered tap) which you can also add the syrup to.
Winds up being well over 100 options.
And contrary to Pan's statement the flavors don't mix. The Freestyle machine uses a whole series of technologies originally developed for the pharmaceutical manufacturing, compounding, and dispensing industry.
They don't need fiddly adjusting of the water, syrup, and CO2 mix, laborious cleaning (which way more places then you want to believe skimp on), tell Coke and the vendor what they're selling and what needs replacing, and (for the moment) draw customers in with flavors unavailable elsewhere.
They are better in every conceivable way than the old machines. Well, other then having a higher rental fee, but I've been told the total cost is less when accounting for waste, labor, etc.
No there isn't. All the mixing happens outside the spout and the machine runs water for a moment after you let go of the button to purge the lines and the machine does a full purge and clean every night. Like I said, the machines use tech originally developed for the pharmaceutical industry.

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From among the readily-available "common" soft drinks, my standard go-to is Dr. Pepper. I enjoy occasionally trying something more obscure from time to time (especially cream soda and strawberry flavored soda), and some have been exceptional, but I can't remember names. :/
There is a local bottling company in our town (New Britain, CT) called Avery's that makes its own soda.
They make amazing cream soda. They also produce "gross" halloween-themed flavors (with names like zombie brain juice) that are actually pretty good.

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Jiggy wrote:From among the readily-available "common" soft drinks, my standard go-to is Dr. Pepper. I enjoy occasionally trying something more obscure from time to time (especially cream soda and strawberry flavored soda), and some have been exceptional, but I can't remember names. :/There is a local bottling company in our town (New Britain, CT) called Avery's that makes its own soda.
They make amazing cream soda. They also produce "gross" halloween-themed flavors (with names like zombie brain juice) that are actually pretty good.
Oh hey. Avery's. I used to get soda from them, when I drank soda more regularly.
And I didn't know you were local. I moved out of NB a year and half ago or so. :)
As for soda: Mountain Dew to caffeinate for long drives. Much less than I used to.
Ginger beer every once in awhile. Even more rarely, root/birch beer or sarsaparilla.

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Aniuś the Talewise wrote:Jiggy wrote:From among the readily-available "common" soft drinks, my standard go-to is Dr. Pepper. I enjoy occasionally trying something more obscure from time to time (especially cream soda and strawberry flavored soda), and some have been exceptional, but I can't remember names. :/There is a local bottling company in our town (New Britain, CT) called Avery's that makes its own soda.
They make amazing cream soda. They also produce "gross" halloween-themed flavors (with names like zombie brain juice) that are actually pretty good.
Oh hey. Avery's. I used to get soda from them, when I drank soda more regularly.
And I didn't know you were local. I moved out of NB a year and half ago or so. :)
As for soda: Mountain Dew to caffeinate for long drives. Much less than I used to.
Ginger beer every once in awhile. Even more rarely, root/birch beer or sarsaparilla.
Small world!

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I once tried a curry flavored soda. I like curry, but the soda was so terrible I drank it over the course of a week.
This is the best part, i would've thrown it out right away, but no you kept drinking it, dragging it out even! now before you get mad and call me a jerk, my wife would totally do (and has done) the exact same thing as you did:-D
Awesome stuff, really:-)

captain yesterday |

The only people I know from Madison are those who moved to the Twin Cities after college. I been there its nice but its not big.
We got 260k in the city plus another 80k in the surrounding burbs, not to shabby, what we lack in population size we make up for in population girth and partying:-)