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5mon 1d ago by feddit.org/u/NichEherVielleicht in me_irl from feddit.org
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
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.
Meant to be, so with cocaine? Awesome!
I always do
Fun fact: soda fountain soda is mixed with less water than cans/bottles because it assumes you'll add ice.
Even the smallest size is over 400ml? How are Americans not constantly dying for a piss and feeling bloated as hell?
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.
The diabetes gets 'em first.
Well at least they save money on shoes!
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!
because the idiots are paying for ice not soda
That's the neat part...
We are
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
"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
Litre of cola
It’s for a cop
Hold the spit
What's that, extra spit?
(I know I know, it's a Super Troopers reference but I couldn't help it)
Leedercola?
I just want my god damned leederacola
I don't want a large Farva!
It's French for give me some god damn Cola!
That should be measure in length units.
I accidentally a liter of cola
The real insanity is still using X/Twitter
Ahem, xhitter.
shitter
Ill take a litre of cola
They don't have a litre. Just have a large, Farva.
I don't want a large Farva, I want a god damn liter o cola!
Litre is French for give me some fucking cola before I break vous fucking lips!
A what?
"It's for a cop"
Stop with all the shenanigans!
"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.
Can an American confirm this is true? I checked the Polish ones and they are the same as UKs.
I'm American. It's true. But they do have a lot of ice in the cups.
Gotta specify 'light ice' or 'easy ice' or shit is 97% frozen water and 3% actual soda.
Isn't that the idea?
I used to live in a place where they just don't do ice in soda at all, and it's like licking a can of dried out syrup. In the local Imax they didn't even have ice at all as an option. They looked at me like I was insane when I asked, then calmly pointed out that the soda comes out of the machine chilled. I just had to learn to watch two hour movies while sucking on a tub of lukewarm, full-strength soda like a deviant.
The colder the better!
2nded. Also I think the soda at 7-11 is even bigger.
32oz sure. A McDonald's coke is set at 290 calories. A standard 20oz bottle of coke is 240.
Meaning McDonald's expects you to get ~24oz of soda in a large(32oz) drink.
Their pouring system is automated most places, and many of them have intentionally moved the in restaurant dispensers behind the counter as well, making sure it reduces refills and means they will regulate the amount of ice you get as well.
So they look huge, but really you get less soda than there is in a Gatorade bottle. (28oz).
Sidenote: Sonic sells a "Route 44", which is a 44oz cup
I lived in the US for couple of years and I would curse every time I forgot order small not medium. They are saying its all ice but here in Brazil there is quite a bit of ice too. When I ordered medium in the US I had to carry it with me for a couple hours while sipping on it cause I couldn't finish it in one sitting.
Bonus: their clothes are also bigger. I'm an L in Brazil but in the US I had to buy M.
When I was a teen we'd often get a "cube" (24 pack of 12oz cans) of Mountain Dew and drink it in a night. It seems horrific to me now.
Eww I’m gonna tell my buddy about this over the twelve pack of beer we split tonight.
Important to bear in mind that Americans also put a ton of ice in the cup too.
It's the same in UK, ice is cheaper than cola syrup
Oh, interesting. I thought that wasn't so much a thing over there.
there's two things you just can't take from us americans:
- high power semi-automatic rifles
- sodabuckets
edit: i'm not saying it's a good thing, i'm just saying we're weirdly politically motivated when it comes to these two things
The "European" sizes are just the normal sizes we used to have in the USA. Gradually they increased the sizes to sell more dranks by default. Current "small" size drinks are just the former medium size cups and so on
we can thank the good people at 7-11 for normalizing the 64 oz $1.50 drink
It's insane to me that the US small is almost as big as the UK large.
gEtTiNg R mUneY's wUrTh!!!!!!
Drinking soda regularly (as a replacement to water) is fucking disgusting.
Never go to Mexico then
We take it to go. Hence the enormous cupholders in our enormous cars.
I finally understand why cars are getting bigger.
Because of all the sugar?
But then you're still drinking that in one day? That is pretty wild to me.
No, we bring it back to the nest to nourish our young
But you still have to finish it within 30-40 minutes or so. Or do people actually drink it flat and lukewarm for the rest of the day?
The cup is about 70% filled with ice before the drink goes in. I work in hospice and drive around to patients homes all day. I'll occasionally hit McDonald's in the morning as I start my day (bacon, egg and cheese bagel with a large coke zero sugar.) Unless my car is getting hot in the middle of summer, that drink will last about 4 hours with some ice left over. If it's hot enough out to melt faster, well, I'm probably drinking it faster anyway because it's hot out.
But isn't it more water than cola at that point? I'd rather chug back 300ml then drink water the rest of the day, than drink watery cola for 4 hours.
Not at all. The ice isn't melting THAT fast. By the time I get towards the end it's just a matter of how much has melted and how thirsty I am lol. If it doesn't taste good, I stop drinking.
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.
Visiting Texas, I was absolutely blown away at the number of people carrying around a 3L bottle (yes THREE liters) of sugar water with the cap held between their knuckles.
Time of day did not seem to matter, people were sucking them down at 7:00 in the morning.
Living in Texas all my life I literally can’t remember the last time I saw a three liter bottle. Twos are everywhere, but threes have been a rarity in my life.
I know they existed and I know they were everywhere because I couldn't help but be shocked.
Could be a regional thing, and also this was 20 years ago so sizing may have changed.
I also remember shortly after I noticed they were trying to introduce that format here in canada, but it went over like a limestone glider. It was quickly discontinued.
Yeah, that sounds about right. I remember seeing them when I was… well, about 20 years younger or there about. I remember them being pointless because by the time you go around to the second half of the bottle the soda had gone flat. Mind you, this was also after it’d been ‘sipped’ on for a week. As a kid I was only allowed one small glass a day.
Actually thanks for sharing
We grew up very similarly, my mother, as bad a cook as she was, she really had some good ideas and she tried
We were each allowed one 2L of soda each 2 weeks (payday for Dad). Oh and one 200g thing of chips.
Eat it all in one sitting like my brother would do and then have a giant burp. Or meter them out for 2 weeks.
I thought it was good of her to let us have a little bit of crap, but also understand how to manage the crap intake.
I swear the 3L bottle has become an endangered species. When I've gone looking for a 3L bottle of soda for a party I've had a heck of a time finding them
They still seem to sell them around town but it's never the premium brands, it's not even off-label brands. They're always in that discount supermarket with crushed pallets of product and all kinds of weird shit you've never heard of, and the soda is always pink or orange.
with the cap held between their knuckles.
At that point, I think you refer to those as trotters.
There was a lot of waddling seen. And shoes with the soles compressed to levels of density approaching that of a neutron star.
How were they walking with all that diabeetus feet
They weren't. It's why they use those disability scooters.
And yet... I will happily drink 2 litres of beer in one evening lol
I was a bit of a sniff head for a while but didn’t drink and all my mates must have been drinking 10+ litres plus of beer and some spirits. Easy a crate of Stella for each person.
It's okay. They pack all the US sizes full of ice first, so it's simultaneously not that bad and a complete rip-off.
They get free refills.
We have that in the UK too
We didn’t when I worked there. We put enough ice in to make it full. Ask for no ice and it’s like 90% full. We just pressed a button. If I was working I’d top up the no ice folk. I’d also let you keep your free coffee stamps after claiming your coffee for free.
Another fun comment, movie theaters used to have absolutely gigantic portions (yes, even bigger than now). Cobb Theaters had a soda called "The Cobbster" which was 80oz. It was basically a popcorn bucket full of soda with a straw. And it came with free refills, it was the only size to do so. I imagine that was because only a maniac would actually come back for a refill. I did it once to "get my value", but I couldn't actually drink any more.
I remember see something similar in some movie or tv series. I'm looking for it.
Edit: Didn't find it.
Yeah, but it's mostly ice.
Say car ramrod!
GET A LITRE COLA
Just order a large, Farva.
With no spit!
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.
621? That's an oddly specific number...
21 fl oz in metric, reversed for the UK measurements.
21 is still oddly specific. Make it 20 or a prime number (like 23) but not 21
whispering 21
Been there although it was a team endeavour 😉
and they will probably all cost the same.
80 percent water ice and 20 percent soda.
I can do 1L over a period of time... in a plastic bottle. If US cups are like they are elsewhere they eventually get eaten away by the liquid and start dripping, which seems to go against the implied notion that you can just order a big one and take it with you to keep drinking elsewhere.
The largest size cups are often, but not always, thin as hell plastic.
So you get more free plastic waste with your beetus.
Good to know. In fairness, I don't think you can get that much Coke in anything but plastic. They don't do 1L cans and there are thick plastic bottles starting at 500ml, so thin plastic may actually be better.
I do think there's a 1L glass bottle, but it's more of a special edition thing. I don't think it's easy to find in supermarkets and I havent' seen it anywhere else. And for any soft drink other than specifically Coca Cola it's mostly just plastic for anything above 500 mil.
...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!
Or they use an unreasonable amount of milk. Imagine being lactose intolerant and drinking one of those Starbucks milk coffees ...
Out of interest:
Does US McDonalds also offer sparkling mineral water or something like that?
I usually take that as I am not especially fond of sweetend soft drinks.
This would be regional. Some of the new "mixology" machines offer sparkling water options. Most American machines offer carbonated soda water (tap water with carbonation added, no flavors or minerals really added)
The soda water in flint has added minerals and also hydrocarbons.
you can even set it on fire for those special occasions!
Oh my God I was thinking of this exact scene before I scrolled down. Parks and Rec was brilliant.
One liter of cola is a family serving...
What is a single man if not a family of one?
I don’t think I’ve had a supersized one in decades. Is that still a thing in the UK? On the occasions I do get a McDonald’s I usually just get water anyway.
I think they got rid of that after Supersize Me came out.
I don't eat there anyway. It used to be fast and cheap, and now I can make an entire lasagne for the price of going there, in not much more time. I know what I'm doing when given the choice.
Imma grip and sip
and sip and sip and sip and sip and….
It sounds horrific....but have you ever HAD a near liter of cola in one sitting? And then basked in the caffeinated sugary afterglow?
A year ago I was drinking a liter of diet Pepsi in a sitting, and it goes down just as well as anything else… only thing is that it negatively compliments so many foods.
I struggle to drink a US "small" fast food cup of anything but water because even that is way too much sugary drink for my tastes
only during movember
It’s not good at all. I immediately feel sick to my stomach, sad and gross. I’ve never drank a liter. That’s how I feel after 12oz.
Similar amount of sugar but without the caffeine from a smoothie. It felt awful.
That large is even small compared to many places now.
And half a litre isn't?
1½ cans worth, it's doable.
What’s up with the French drinking 50mL of water with their meal lmao. I sip that much.
because their meals are like 1/2 of the size of a USA meal.
A restaurant meal in america is like 1500-2000 calories. in france it's like 1000.
I stayed in Paris+Marseille for 3.5 weeks and found the portion sizes the same overall as what we get in California, only slightly less than southern AZ. These crazy portions are really only a thing at fast/low quality restaurants around here.
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".
Most of it is ice.
Everyone here is acting surprised at the size, or pretending that somehow, the ice makes it okay.
Y'all. Own your shit. These look normal to me, and I totally skip out on the ice most all of the time. I usually finish a 16oz before I'm done with my meal.
On those rare occasions I visit those fast food places, 250ml portion of soda is usually way more than enough for me. I can't comprehend drinking a liter of cola in one sitting.
I don't know that I've ever seen anyone drink a liter of soda in one sitting. People who are getting cups those sizes are taking them with them and finishing them as the day goes on.
It makes it marginally better
How dare you waddling in here like that.
Imagine only drinking 250ml of water with a fatty burger and fries. Y'all are dehydrated.
The bigger the sitting the bigger the shitting
Haven't seen this meme in a while. Next we will see the Kinder Surprise meme.
Also a if a 16oz cup is filled to the top with ice then it's about 8oz of liquid before the ice melts. So this meme is for spreading ignorance for a laugh or a marketing scheme to convince Americans to by smaller cups without lowering the price.