Cloaca-Cola
There it is. That should have been the post title.
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It’s too late now. OP must commit ritual suicide by mixing all the flavors
Basically what this was:
Only tastes ok
This looks like it’s from Postal 2.
A joke from Kingdom of Loathing.
Soda fountain(ancient)
Soda machine(old)
Cloaca-Cola dispenser (current)
The Cloca-Cola ™ UIXperience (soon)
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.
Almost any gas station has those syrup pumps, and here in Utah, we have a soda shop (like Swig) on almost every corner.
I thought tea was illegal in Utah.
No, and soda isn’t tea anyway. Not sure what you’re getting at.
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Ah, lol. 🤦
Tea being illegal in Utah.
You’re thinking of magnets
This is very much a Utah thing. Specifically because of Mormons. Do you think every other state is like that?
Most gas stations definitely do not have syrup pumps.
Idk, I grew up in WA and saw them there, and I’ve seen them at gas stations along the way in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington (we drive back once/year).
The smaller gas stations don’t seem to have them, but the larger ones do, especially those “oasis” stations. And we tend to stop at larger gas stations, so maybe that colors my perspective here.
Almost any gas station has those syrup pumps
Once upon a time for sure, shockingly getting more and more rare ime
It’s because of mormons! I’ve seen it on the YouTube!
That’s actually more true than not. These soda shops are essentially an alternative to coffee shops for those who believe drinking coffee and tea are bad. It’s the same caffeine fix, but without being coffee or tea.
Now I’m wondering what the Mormon position on GamerSupps is?
Not sure if joke about waifus or legitimate question about energy drinks…
Would you believe me if I said it was both?
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The only reason why I like them is because I can cherry all the things. Cherry Coke, Cherry Sprite, Cherry root beer… You get the idea.
(I also like that cherry lime drink that several restaurants advertise under different names as their “exclusive” beverage. On the top of my head I know that Jack in the Box and Firehouse Subs both have it, with their own branding slapped on the name.)
That’s the reason I originally thought they were cool, however, in practice, they almost never allowed you to mix anything with anything, and it was purely a limit placed in the software. I couldn’t cherry anything but coke and dr pepper on any of them I ever used. I couldn’t add lemon to anything but the already raspberry flavored Fuze tea. I couldn’t add vanilla to the root beer or have grape flavored sprite. Shit pisses me off, because it wasn’t that they didn’t have a certain flavor, the interface just didn’t show the flavors available for every possible soda on the machine. Especially when I would see people elsewhere with them setup in the way you really want, where you could cherry everything. 😬
Cherry Rootbeer tastes a lot like Dr Pepper to me… When we would run out at the store I worked at out of high school I’d just get Barq’s and add a bit of cherry flavor from our defunct Icee ripoff machine.
Five Guys has it too. Freestyle is the name I know. It’s fantastic.
I like them, but I’m always behind someone who looks like they’ve never used technology more advanced than a telegraph before
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.
why are you getting plain water from the soda machine when there HAVE to be semi-decent water fountains in a hospital? the powerade splashed water is on you at that point.
Water fountains aren’t usually positioned as part of a cafeteria line. They are also slower and have weird angles, not always being convenient to fill up a cup from.
My hospital doesn’t really have very many water fountains. I think there may be one near the public restrooms on the main floors, but I think that’s it. We have a water cooler in my clinic’s break room, but no water fountains near the cafeteria.
I work for a state run hospital in one of the poorer states in the nation. We don’t have a lot of amenities… And unfortunately not a lot of people drink water here.
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Who doesn’t like Caribbean blue drinking water?
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.
They’re apparently massive pieces of shit and very unreliable. But that makes sense for a product with a Pininfarina product. (yes I know they do the outsides of products not the insides)
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Unlike my ex wife
So, NOT great at an orgy.
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.
No shit they don’t want 5 people slamming out drinks at once. If even if one person says fuck the line and doesn’t get a free refill they won.
Nothing open to the public should have a touch interface. Has Covid taught us nothing?
There’s also a QR code you can scan to control it via your phone. I’m sure no one has exploited that.
And at least your phone has (mostly) only your own fecal bacteria on the screen.
Speak for yourself.
It’s a study, not just me.
I use my semi erect pinky to push it just to be safe.
Hey fellow semi erect pinky pusher!
I use the second knuckle of my middle finger.
I use my semi erect something else ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Covid doesn’t transmit on surfaces very well.
Other things do.
Then we didn’t learn it from covid.
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You’re confusing different things. “Contact tracing” has nothing to do with touching things. It just means you had some kind of contact with someone who had covid. Not even physical touch, just being relatively close.
Covid does not spread well through surfaces. This created huge waste as people were trying to deep clean with isopropyl alcohol, resulting in isopropyl alcohol shortages and companies putting in more dangerous forms of alcohol in hand sanitizer. It was completely unnecessary.
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Which isn’t what the covid contract tracing apps did. They just looked for proximity. Which makes sense, because covid is primarily transmitted by breathing around people.
How are the buttons more hygienic?? A screen is much easier to clean or protect with plastic.
The ones where you press the lever with the cup are.
That’s rich coming from the “why not cum from where we pee?” Species
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At least in males they aren’t getting that luxury.
females don’t pee
Right, because pee is stored in the balls
In females it’s the same. Skene’s glands sit on the urethra.
You say that like we’re the only species who do that, which very much isn’t the case.
Birds also cum from the hole whoch they pee
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.
Is it bad that I saw that movie in the theater, but without your link I would have never pieced that together?
Eh, that’s just called getting old. Sorry for your loss.
Sorry for your loss.
Aqua Homo if ya want to be extra Latin.
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
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I literally said that, but I was implying it doesn’t often work with those all-in-one machines
Sorry I have ADHD. Didn’t finish reading before I commented.
Water fucking rules, man.
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- The first rule of Water Club is that you always talk about Water Club.
- The second rule of Water Club is that you always talk about Water Club.
- If someone is sweaty or peeing yellow, the fight against their thirst is on.
- Only two cups of water (is not nearly enough)
- One cup of water at a time is plenty, but you should drink more
- No shirt, no shoes. Don’t want to get those wet.
- Drinking will continue for as long as the subject is not properly hydrated.
- If this is your first glass of water today, you have to drink it.
Here you go. List formatting added:
- “Be like water making its way through cracks.
- Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it.
- If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.
- Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water.
- If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash.
- Be water, my friend.”
― Bruce Lee
All of that is unholy because the Coca Cola company is pure shit.
It gets worse. They hired hitmen to kill trade union leaders in Colombia.
Was this explanation accurate?
I also remember when gas pumps had a separate hose and nozzle for each grade of gas.
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.
I have selected premium several times and then the tank stopped filling 30¢ early and my receipt said regular despite selecting premium when filling up my moped. I think the machines try to account for the gas type difference sometimes or maybe the pumps I was using were a bit dodgy.
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.
Wonder if they stopped having to do that when they removed lead
…do I want to search up what a cloaca is?
It’s the omni-genital.
The Wikipedia article describes the biological act of a “cloaca kiss,” which may or may not be exactly what it sounds like depending on an individual’s imagination.
What the hell!?
I clicked the comments just to share my fun “cloacal kiss” fact!
Ugh. I’m going back to reddit.
Why are you making me look this up?
Damn you sir or madam.
Wound up looking at a page of animal dongs.
Amazing
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.”
It’s one of those words where whatever you first think of when hearing it, is probably fairly close to the real thing
You do not.
Ok thank you.
Legendary exchange
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
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Do it. Knowledge is power.
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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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Lime coke from those machines is delicious. Fight me.
Ginger lime diet coke is an abomination and I’m here for it.
I like to make something new each time. Might try this next time.
Only a might try? Bro can’t even let himself imagine me flavors.
I say might BC these things are a bit rare where I live so I’ll probably forgor.
Counter argument: Vanilla Coke
Also being able to get anything in diet instead of just one or two things.
Or being able to get nothing as diet/zero because they never replace the non-hfcs BIBs.
Half of restaurants seem to forget what backup is when they get these machines.
Or like 3 different nonstandard fruit flavored sprites. At once
Second counter argument: peach sprite
Do you not have those syrup things? Pretty much every gas station has one.
Very few restaurants have them (especially those without bars), and the ones that do never clean the pump head so it’s always covered in dirt and bacteria. At least I know that the soda fountain nozzle(s) gets cleaned nightly at most restaurants. But nobody ever seems to sanitize the flavor pumps.
Yeah, I don’t think I’ve seen them at restaurants, but I have seen them at convenience stores a ton. Why they didn’t have the flavor shots has always confused me, because that has been the difference between me getting a soda and not.
Plastic pumps separate from the fountain? I’ve seen them once or twice but I couldn’t name a chain that I’ve been to which has those. But also you’d have to know the ideal ratio of syrup to base soda rather than have it pre-mixed.
you’d have to know the ideal ratio of syrup to base soda
One pump or two, depending on preference.
We also have some built in to the machine, and I’ve seen it right next to the machine as well as a separate pump.
you can use pressurised air to clean the duct. Some verterbrates like to call it farts
This hurts as someone who fixes both.
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100% I was going to mention this but didn’t wanna seem to nerdy.
If you are interested in learning about them search up lancer lev and you’ll see pics and manuals.
i love some of the newer dispensers but you can’t fuckin beat classic valves. On or fuckin off brother no in-between. i don’t need no gentrified machine, give me bare stainless and black plastic with a decal and I’m happy.
i just rebuilt and installed a fountain and icewell combo original built in 96. shits built to last and is always repairable, freestyle machines break so easy, it’s all tiny parts and plastic.
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Just get a drinkmate, you can buy sryups online. Easiest way to have fresh soda.
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Depending on where you live you could go the route of premixed product. You just need fridge big enough for a tank and a set of taps mounted on top. You serve it like beer, bonus is you can easily switch to beer.
Cloaca-cola, as envisioned by Pininfarina!
Fun fact: the Coca Cola Freestyle machine is designed by the Pininfarina company, of the same Pininfarina legacy of classic Italian car design fame.
