GET A LITRE COLA
Just order a large, Farva.
Most of it is ice.
Shh, you’re going to give them an excuse to cut down sizes while charging the same or more all in the name of “health”.
To be fair it’s not a full liter even if it was 1000ml.
Over half the damn thing is ice. They also have a custom blend so they can cut it with more water than normal coke. Not the same as pounding a new sealed bottle.
When I worked at Taco Bell, I would make food like how I would want it and I would ice and fill drinks how I’d want it: just enough ice and filled to the brim with no overflow or mess. The trick is to tilt the cup and overfill it, so that the foam rolls out of the cup as you’re filling it, then untip it as you top it off. The momentum of the overflow keeps the side clean if you do it right, kind the same energy as snapping off a paper towel or toilet paper from a roll one-handed.
…and they do it with coffee too. 1/2 litre of something that cannot be called coffee… you can see the bottom of your cup through it. recolonise!
No, abondon!
The real insanity is still using X/Twitter
Ahem, xhitter.
Well, you’re not really supposed to drink it all in one sitting. You’re supposed to drink it all in less than a full sitting and then get a free refill to throw out the window on the way back home because the ice melted and you have several liters of cola in your fridge anyway.
It’s all ice anyway….
You can ask for no ice and get the 1L of soda experience just as it was meant to be
Meant to be, so with cocaine? Awesome!
A lot won’t do that anymore or have an auto size fill that even without ice you’ll get less of a product. Except for self serve stations, in that case, pour away! Oh, though some of them have added rfid tags to the cups so you can only use their cup and for a limited time. Ain’t capitalism grand.
Go to A&W, they never add ice.
I’ve had theaters only allowing one refill, but that was either with a marker to the bottom or honor system (as far as that goes for $8 drinks). But tracking it with a chip is insanity
Capitalism, baby! Every innovation is not for your sake. It’s for their bottom line.
“butbutbut it’s the best economic system ever!” Says every fucking moron that doesn’t understand scientific and technological advancement.
I always do
Fun fact: soda fountain soda is mixed with less water than cans/bottles because it assumes you’ll add ice.
“Then, there is a horrifying 512-ounce version that they call child size. How is this a child-sized soda?”
“Well, it’s roughly the size of a two-year old child, if the child were liquefied. It’s a real bargain at $1.59.”
It’s the size of a small child
“liter of soda ot once…”
Well, unless you ask for no ice is more like 325oz of soda with 425oz of ice. Yet also cost $3.29 because fuck you.
When I worked there in the uk we used to press S, M, or L and then it would fill most of the way if you had no ice. I’d say 90% soda.
And half a litre isn’t?
1½ cans worth, it’s doable.
Yeah, but it’s mostly ice.
Even the smallest size is over 400ml? How are Americans not constantly dying for a piss and feeling bloated as hell?
We are
Aren’t their drinks like 80% full of ice? I feel like despite the cup sizes they probably don’t end up with that much more soda
How exactly do they advertise the cups? Because my local legislation would demand that if they said a “400ml Coke” I need to get 400ml of liquid Coke, regardless of the size of the container or the ice. But if they sneakily say “do you want a 400ml CUP” and later on you decide what goes inside the cup, then yes.
It’s just “a small cup”
Over here that would still possibly be a problem depending on the expected association the customer makes.
“I want some Coke”
“Got it, and will that be a medium?”
“What size is a medium?”
“400ml”
Then the implicit expectation is 400ml of the Coke being ordered
“What size is a medium?”
They’d just grab the cup to show you. Where do you live that the workers would actually reply to you with the actual measurement?
Brazil
Also in Europe it would be totally normal to respond with measurements. 200 ml, 0.33, and half liter are the standard ones. In the UK there’s pints and half pints.
If somebody just pointed at the container for me instead of telling me the size I would probably consider it weird. Maybe it’s normal in fast food joints.
I believe in America the corporation is given the edge. “We didn’t say you’d get 400ml of coke, we said a medium was 400ml.” Is a legally viable argument. Its only false advertising if taking the statement at face value is provably false, a la “Red Bull gives you wings” was changed to “Red bull gives you wiiiings” because the original was provably false, and the second one can be defended as “wiiiings isn’t a real word so it doesn’t mean anything”
We are way beyond punishing folks for false advertising, sadly.
Unless you ask for no/less ice, yeah, most of the volume is ice. I’d wager that for the typical fountain drink, they’re probably pretty close to the same amount of sugar syrup. Now, is the ice any better for you? No, that shits FILTHY, but that’s a story for another time.
Restaurant Impossible made me always ask for no ice. Ew.
Oooo why’s that? Disgusting ice machines? I only ever get takeout so I never get store drinks, but I used to always get lots ice as a kid cuz I loved to chew it.
Often filled with mold and bacteria. Cold + dark + damp + almost never cleaned = pure nastiness
Ewwwww nice. I’ll continue avoiding those hahaha.
My office has a nugget ice dispenser, they got it about six months ago… I’ll never stop using that when I stop by there, even when it’s disgusting. Nugget ice is the best thing ever.
They do though.
I’m American but I don’t drink soda. But if you fill this with water, I don’t think it’s that ridiculous? My point is, it’s not the amount of liquid that’s the issue, it’s the soda. Stay hydrated (with water).
That was kind of my point, too: if you’re drinking 3-4litres of water a day as a minimum, and then adding at least another 400ml+ of soda at the smallest size? Mad!
The diabetes gets 'em first.
Well at least they save money on shoes!
because the idiots are paying for ice not soda
That’s the neat part…
In general it’s probably about 250 to 300ml of ice unless you make sure to ask for light or no ice.
I don’t know many people that even get soda
I certain don’t
