EightBitNate
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Anyone else noticing McDonalds watering down their sodas?
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This Burgerking I went to in Florida had the nastiest tasting coke I've ever drank. Wish I had a bottle/can of it on that day.
statham
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fuck that, and the only way to drink fountain soda is with no lid or straw, straight from the cup with half ice.On a hot day in florida, that shit is delicious, unless the manager waters down the shit, or if carbonation machine is running low. (been playing alot of GTAV, in the black guy voice)
this.
terrisus
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Stop going to McDonalds and watch your life get better.
dead souls
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I know, there are like four other days right?
Fast food is once a week for me at most.
Randolph Freelander
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You probably went in during times when the syrup was low. Congratulations. Thirty minutes later after dude manning the fries was sent to exchange the containers, the next customers got the best soda of their lives.
CartridgeBlower
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Whole point of the thread was I've noticed it happening at multiple McDonalds, but few who have posted a reply seem to have read that far into the OP to understand that. Whatever. I also said it was over the course of a few weeks, but I guess the snarky comments are par for the course when trying to talk about food on gaf.
Nathan Muir
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Touché.
peanutbutterlatte
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Every restaurant does this. Well, most places. If you don't specify you don't want ice, you are usually drinking 40% Coke and 60% frozen water.
Doctor Ninja
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That's strange, they don't do that where I live.
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I always ask for no ice after watching Robert Irvine show the inside of a drinks machine on Restaurant Impossible, apparently the ice compartment is one of the filthiest places in any kitchen and is often overlooked when cleaning. The gunk inside put me off ice for life.
Faulty machines? Nah, it's definitely intentional.
keeblerdrow
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At least it's not a Coke Freestyle machine. Those things manage to shit up every permutation of Coke product I've ever had from them. And they're EVERYWHERE now.
BassForever
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The only thing I can think of is they replaced their old soda machines in the drive thru with the automatic drink dispensers. Even then your drink shouldn't taste any different unless all the stores around you weren't filling up the cups with the "mcdonalds standard" amount of ice which I'll admit is a lot. Machine automatically does it correctly so that may explain the difference, but it shouldn't be that drastic.
Zoe
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They're styrofoam around here.
They might all be the same franchise or are serviced by the same tech.
Be sure to purge the spout for a few seconds before getting your own drink. That said, all of them around here taste like it's out of the can :\
I have noticed McDonalds trying to water down *.*
chaosblade
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I don't eat fast food often and I can't recall the last time I was at a McDonalds, but a couple months ago I was at a Burger King with my dad and he complained about how their drinks from the "new" machine didn't taste right. Some kind of machine where there's only one dispenser and you select what you want off a touchscreen.
Google indicates this is what I'm referring to.
Google indicates this is what I'm referring to.
Zoe
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They don't taste right because you get some of the previous drink in there.
Zippedpinhead
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Diet coke at mcdonalds ( I know a diet soda at a fast food restaurant). Is terrible, it tastes entirely different than at any other restaurant, fast food or otherwise. I can't drink it, I'll get tea instead every time I go now.
Prax
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I am pretty sure that's how it works. It's carbonated water + concentrated syrup as far as I know. Which is why fountain drinks taste different from bottled/canned ones. Freshness!
And when you get your own drinks, it's usually free refills! So not sure why you are complaining. lol (Unless an employee mixes the wrong syrups or something)
IceDoesntHelp
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Every Fast Food Resturant does it, the only one that its super noticeable at is Harveys for me. Their Root Beer/Dr. Pepper tastes like water with a hint of syrup.
Sculder
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By "tea" do you mean sweet or unsweet?
Kuro Madoushi
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What's this shit about dirty ice?!
SonicXtreme
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sweet up to that line at the bottom of the cup, then unsweet in the rest is the only way i do it nowadays. used to always get the sweet but damn that shit pure tastes like diabetes now.
McDonalds uses Coca Cola, which means that the soda machine is not controlled by the store. Coca Cola does the maintanence on the soda and sets up the machine because they want to avoid companies doing what op is saying, since that is a poor representation of their brand.
OP, what most likely is happening is that you are starting to notice flavors better and your pallete is changing due to being older. You might be noticing the carbonated water a lot more in your older state.
OP, what most likely is happening is that you are starting to notice flavors better and your pallete is changing due to being older. You might be noticing the carbonated water a lot more in your older state.
Escape Goat
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According to their nutritional info a large sweet tea has 220 calories and 52 grams of sugar.
A large coke has 280 calories an and 76 grams of sugar.
Now it is recommended people consume no more than 20grams for women and 36 for men.
BattleMonkey
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As someone else here mentioned, I too seem to have the best experience with Wendy's soda. Perhaps it's because they don't let you serve yourself and monitor the fountains more closely? In other self serve fast food places, the fountains tap out of syrup and no one tends to them for long periods at a time.
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