If 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.
Its 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.
Ideal 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.
McDonald’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.
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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.
It takes several hours to run. This isn’t something you do to every room every time.
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He’s trying to break it gently. That’s not ozone you’re smelling in those rooms.
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Nobody tell him
Explain why you’re fondling air conditioners first
Mold.
Yeah I was going to say it’s because neither the A/C 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.
Ahmmm… 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. Sure, you can run sanitizer and soap through it but that doesn’t scrub off the black mold and it’s not exactly financially feasible to rip out all the piping from the walls and ceiling and replace it every 2 weeks.
I’m not honestly sure what a solution would be other than not using soda fountains.
Too sweet?
Don’t even really understand drinking Sprite overall. 7UP or nothing.
Up 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.
Water or nothing, heathen.
IV saline or death you dirty casual.
Never understood the whole Sprite/7Up/Starry a.k.a. Sierra Mist fandom. They all taste identical.
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.
Yes
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Dr Pepper tastes the same as how a hospital smells
Delicious?
Doctory
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.
‘Glib’ - when the words come out your mouth are fluent, but insincere and shallow.
McDonald’s Sprite tastes good, it has just the right sweetness and fizz. It’s always exactly the same wherever you go yet somewhat fake and hollow. Similarly, hotel conditioners in my experience, are cold and effective - in the way a walk in fridge is designed to keep meat fresh. Purely functional and devoid of tangible comfort. ‘Glib’.
Ok, but my workplace has a walk in freezer and that place absolutely has “tangible comfort” in abundance when it’s 95° outside and the air conditioner barely keeps up with the ovens…
I worked in a kitchen at a cult on a compound in Texas for a year and that summer was a hot one. One those 100F+ days I’d head into the kitchen on my off hours and hang out in the deep freeze walk in. This was 20 years ago, but if memory serves it was set to something like -10F, and god was it wonderful to cool down in. I’d stay in for 5 or 10 minutes and come out ready to go again. I loved it.
I’m not sure if I understand how hotel AC functionality is devoid of comfort. Wouldn’t a functional AC also be indicative of comfort? Definitely better than a Non-functional AC i suppose.
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
Did the static shock have a taste, or was it overridden by the lemonade, or do you now associate the taste of shocks with lemonade?
