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The concentrate is produced by Ballina Beverages, then regional bottlers add the bulk ingredients like sugar and water. Hence every version being a little diffe
by a_paddy 9mo ago
The concentrate is produced by Ballina Beverages, then regional bottlers add the bulk ingredients like sugar and water. Hence every version being a little different.
- SoftTalker 9mo agoAnd that's just bottlers. Fountain soda is also diluted from concentrate. So local water can affect the flavor, as can the calibration of the soda fountain. The better retailers will carbon-filter their water and check calibration regularly but the average convenience store? Varies wildly.
- trympet 9mo agoDo you have fountain soda in your convenience store? I've usually only seen that in fast food places (am european)
- lacunary 9mo agoyes it's very common in the US. See: Big Gulp!
- rootusrootus 9mo ago> Big Gulp! I'm old enough to remember when that was actually the big size.
- kstrauser 9mo agoA local chain where I grew up had 33oz sodas, larger than the competition’s, called the Supreme Quart. It was a rite of passage to have your parents let you get one for the first time.
- SoftTalker 9mo agoYes, convenience stores here often have self-serve fountain soda.
- 0xbadcafebee 9mo agoRandom tidbit from my youth: when the Coke truck would come deliver a crate of Coke bottles to our house in Mexico, each Coke bottle had a little stick of sugarcane in it. I don't think it was like that in all places in Mexico. Street vendors would have giant unlabeled jugs of Coke, and sell it to you by pouring it into a plastic bag with a straw in it.