All of that is unholy because the Coca Cola company is pure shit.
I don't care what it comes out of as long as the machine is properly and regularly cleaned.
I am afraid your out of luck either way.
I have been straight up poisoned several times by improperly maintained soda fountains. I avoid them now.
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❤️cloacas❤️
Lime coke from those machines is delicious. Fight me.
Ginger lime diet coke is an abomination and I'm here for it.
If you are drinking any of those drinks you deserve to drink from the cloaca. Just drink water, it won't hurt you.
Oh boy, someone with a differing opinion on food/beverage that I can shame for liking things other than water
I've never seen either of these machines irl.
You’ve never seen a pop fountain? They’ve got them in all kinds of restaurants and movie theaters. Do you not go out much?
I go to the movies once a week, but it's more of an arthouse place, where you're not bombarded at the entrance with sugary snacks and drinks. To give you an idea: I've never seen anyone eat popcorn there. I do go to restaurants but never to the likes of McDonalds and such, I imagine they would have these things? Perhaps they're also not that common in Europe?
you can use pressurised air to clean the duct. Some verterbrates like to call it farts
Cloacamaster orificeNothing open to the public should have a touch interface. Has Covid taught us nothing?
I use my semi erect pinky to push it just to be safe.
I use the second knuckle of my middle finger.
Hey fellow semi erect pinky pusher!
This hurts as someone who fixes both.
I also remember when gas pumps had a separate hose and nozzle for each grade of gas.
Wonder if they stopped having to do that when they removed lead
Usually depends on the place around here. Some do, some don't.
In theory, separate hoses mean low octane and high octane don't mix (mid grade is already a mix of the two). In practice, it really doesn't matter. Except for diesel; don't want to mix that with anything else.
You don't have that? Where are you?
Most modern pumps in the US have one hose and buttons to select the grade. You’ll get a bit of the previous customer’s selection from what was left over in the line, but it’s not a huge difference if you’re getting 10 gallons. It can be a bigger deal for something with a small tank, like a motorcycle.
Diesel still gets its own hose, as putting diesel into a gas car or vice versa can be very bad.
It's also annoying to use, slower and can't serve multiple people at the same time.
I think the extra annoyance is counteracted by the gains in customizability IMO
Where else are you going to be able to get Peach Sprite or Vanilla Fanta?
Or diet everything.
Peach or strawberry Sprite is my go to
Almost any gas station has those syrup pumps, and here in Utah, we have a soda shop (like Swig) on almost every corner.
I like them, but I'm always behind someone who looks like they've never used technology more advanced than a telegraph before
The self serve suck for high volume but personally I hate when people butt in while I'm getting a drink. Wendy's seems to do a pretty good job but they are Crew serve units(for drive through) upside is more than eight flavors.
Yeah, we had two of these replace the old school style drink stations at the hospital I work at. They had to bring back one of the old machines because the new machines were causing so much congestion in the cafeteria. Pretty sure the hardware in these predate blackberrys, they take forever to recognize any input from the screen.
Plus if you are just trying to get water, it gets slightly contaminated from whatever beverage the last person got. Especially if it's blue powerade for some reason.
The machines used to be relatively fast. But over time they've gotten slower and slower to the point it takes multiple seconds to respond to a touch.
Where I am, they had popped up all over the place at first but have mostly disappeared since then and the ones that remain barely have any flavour customizations anymore.
My guess would be that they came with predatory subscription fees or some shit like that that resulted in them costing more than they brought in and most businesses cancelled their subscription or downgraded to the basic version that just acts as a shitty version of the old style.
Either that or they are difficult to keep clean and result in a lot of flavour syrup going to waste when the less popular flavours expire. Or a combination of the two, maybe with HP-style machine-enforced expiry dates on the syrups that are tuned for profit rather than safety/quality.
Aren't those the ones made to collect data from users with a camera?
So, NOT great at an orgy.
I just want water man
water man
You can use the term "Aqua Man" to sound fancier.
Nah, that's different. Water man is the grown up version of the water boy.
And the water always tastes like shit out of these because they don't clean the tip. On the old style it was always sharing lemonade or Powerade and you could just run the line for a second or two to clear it
...do I want to search up what a cloaca is?
Do it. Knowledge is power.
I feel like the context of "the opposite of 1 hole per beverage" gives a good vague explanation. Another is "how I pictured women's anatomy before I took a health class."
Even if you know what it is, it may surprise you that more that one species can breathe out of it.
Even humans can absorb oxygen through the intestines
It's one of those words where whatever you first think of when hearing it, is probably fairly close to the real thing
As long as you're not studying biology, you get a pass on this one.
Cloaca-cola, as envisioned by Pininfarina!
I love those machines. Diet cherry decaf vanilla etc etc etc....
You can find some unusual things on there!
Fun fact: the Coca Cola Freestyle machine is designed by the Pininfarina company, of the same Pininfarina legacy of classic Italian car design fame.
