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Coke Freestyle machines are fucking terrible. And ya wanna know why? Because the normal bare-ass no bullshit added, COKE tastes like shit. Mixing it on the spot does not make it taste right. It's wrong and it's terrible. I would happily lose every other flavor just to have normal Coke back that doesn't suck shit sauce. And thankfully restaurants are going back to the older machines now.
I'm pretty sure the problem is that those machines do not have the ratio correct of syrup to soda water. They taste heavy on soda, short on syrup. I think they designed them that way to save a few cents per drink thinking that they could mask the lack of flavor by allowing you to add in a bit of cherry or peach or whatever flavoring, but it never is enough to claw back the originally intended ratio and they taste like watered down swill.
Basically all soda fountains mix the drink on the spot BTW. Every restaurant I've worked in has giant CO~2~ bottles in the back and a wall of BIBs (Bag in a Box) of syrup. The fountain has water, gas, and syrup plumbed to it, and usually you can adjust the ratio at the fountain head between all three once you get the cover off.
Are you comparing to pre-made coke or to just fountain coke?
I am comparing every other version of coke, including those that come from the normal fountains, to the Coke Freestyle machines with touch screens.
Oh another customer complaining about the unholy drink cloaca. What a time to be alive.
Two separate holes for liquids and solids. And there isn't a receiving hole there.......... Right?
Oh fuck, the gaping hand hole is the cloaca hole. Oh no. Oh no oh no.
Unpopular opinion: Don't drink that shit at all.
But, I do agree, from back when I used to drink that shit.