ickplantCan't explain
gazbyIf comments to this post don’t explain it, I’m gonna need to book extra therapy 😬
Here’s my take…
Hotel air conditioners feel like perfect air conditioning. Likely due in part to hotel rooms being a small space, usually limited to one outside window, and they are usually good sized units so they will cool it very fast and effectively. Also the rooms are usually warm when you first enter, and so you turn on the A/C and immediately feel the room getting colder.
Similarly, McDonald’s pop is essentially perfect. McDonald’s arguably strives for consistency above all else, so you know that a Sprite from any location will be the perfect mix, the exact right about of carbonation, perfectly chilled with jus the right amount of ice. It will even have their specific large diameter straw to ensure the ideal flow rate when you drink.
ivanafterallIdeal flow rate, my ass. Small straws are better.
Well, ideal if you’re selling soda and trying to get customers to drink as fast as possible.
CorkyskogIts just that the syrup ratios are turned up because they realized at some point the average time from pour to first sip is long. So that first hit before the ice melts is extra sweet. McDonald’s soda without ice is grossly sweet, especially coke or dr p.
Eager EagleMcDonald’s pop is essentially perfect.
I never got this. I only had coke, but it tastes watery just like fountain drinks anywhere else. With plastic bottles being the baseline, fountain drinks are consistently below it, even at MCD. The only coke I actually find better than this baseline are from the glass bottles.
Nobody tell him
They ozonate the rooms to kill all the germs and creepy crawly stuff and it’s similar enough (2 oxygens in CO2) to how they fizz the carbonated water in the sprite. The sprite is light enough in taste, vs coke or pepsi, that you notice it more. That’s my guess but if I’m wrong, please correct me.
I used to work in a very very large well known hotel, ozone machines were only used to remove cigarette smells from guests who broke the rules.
And no one can be in the room while the ozone machine was running. They even had auto-shutoff timers so you could retrieve the machine after it had turned itself off and the room air was breathable again.
This isn’t something you do to do every room every time.
That smell lingers though, I can smell it.
He's trying to break it gently. That's not ozone you're smelling in those rooms.
Lmao, you’re probably right.
Bernie EcclestonedExplain why you’re fondling air conditioners first
Grammaton Cleric
Match!!we had a Boston Market that had a lemonade machine which would 96% of the time give you a static shock the first time you took a sip of the lemonade. I miss them
ALostInquirerDid the static shock have a taste, or was it overridden by the lemonade, or do you now associate the taste of shocks with lemonade?
PsythikI was going to say it’s because neither the AC nor the soda fountain have ever had their filters changed (which makes sense cause a dirty filter is going to allow for all sorts of nasty things to grow.
I don’t know about you guys, but the McDonalds in my area are the only ones who clean their machines.
berkeleyblueAhmmm… aren’t ther inspections? They’d fry your ass allive over here if they see that you haven’t changed your filters in 2 years…
All I can say is when I was working in a restaurant in high school the owners were bribing the health inspector and Tennessee government sucks ass in general.
Yeah but do they change the water filter?
I worked there. The problem is that they do clean their nozzles and machines and tanks but what they don’t clean are the actual lines running the soda syrup from the storage tanks to the fountain. There’s just no viable way to do it.
Too sweet?
Don’t even really understand drinking Sprite overall. 7UP or nothing.
TurtlePowerUp yours!
Wait… that’s not how it goes…
I like both depending on my mood. I fucking love the cranberry 7Up they have during the holidays.
ZoidsbergWater or nothing, heathen.
JoeIV saline or death you dirty casual.
Starry sitting in the corner: do I mean nothing to you?
What’s Starry? No such thing in Canada.
Formerly Sierra Mist.
Oh ok. Not in Canada.
Never understood the whole Sprite/7Up/Starry a.k.a. Sierra Mist fandom. They all taste identical.
Dr Pepper tastes the same as how a hospital smells
Delicious?
KingJalopy Doctory
I mean, it was created because a pharmacist wanted something that reminded him of his pharmacy.
But that was when pharmacies had soda fountains, milkshakes, and real fucking cocaine to go with your anti-hysteria dildo.
Yeah you have ghosts in your blood or something.
You should do some cocaine about it
-19th century doctors
Like latex gloves, wooden tongue depressors, and Ozium? Can’t say that I agree. To me it tastes like Cherry Coke with the essence of cherry removed, leaving behind just the rest of the stuff that makes up a cherry.
It’s almond flavouring, so you’re pretty much bang on.
Are people suggesting that hotel air conditioners don’t suck??? I have never been in a hotel where the AC did anything meaningful - often even when standing right over it.
Just stayed at a Courtyard in Portland this past weekend. $200 after tax/fees for the night.
It was 100F on Saturday and my corner room with a lot of exposure stayed cold. It worked quite well.
Flying SquidThe mediocre hotel we just stayed in at Niagara Falls (it was a Quality Inn. How do you know it was quality? It had a Hooters attached.) had a terrific air conditioner. Not super loud and kept the room quiet.
But then Canadians generally do things well.
My usual experience with hotel ACs is generally the opposite — them pouring in almost frigid air.